Smyrna times., 1899-11-15
CLAYTON.

CLAYTON.
tens of Interest Cleaned From the DOings
In and About Town.
Trinity Guild will meet at the home
Of Mrs. W. II. Lodge tomorrow.
There will be no afternoon service at
Downs Chapel next Sunday, but a
revival service at night.
Otls Jester is substituting the posi-
tion of brakesman on the Smyrna |
Branch while George Hyatt, the reg
ular brakesman is away on vacation.
Miss Alice Mills left yesterday for
Atlanta, Georgia, where she will rep
resent Clayton Chapter of the Daugh-
ter's of the King at the annual session !
of the National Society there.
Rev. J. E. Nicholson, pastor of
Ewell's Church, will preach next Sun
day morning on ''The Sunday School
Lesson" There well be no service at
night. Sunday School at 2 p. m.
Thomas Kirk, charged with assault
ing Conductor Mearns of the Delaware
& Chesapeake railroad, was arrested at
Henderson, Nd, Wednesday, by De-
tective Hutchins. The accused was
sentenced to pay a fine of $12.
While in the act of chopping wood,
an axe in the hands of William Web
bers, caught in clothes line over his
head and directed its course with con-
siderable force on the top of his head,
laying open cash. DIR. Cobb dressed
the wound.
A special train was made up at Clay
ton yesterday, for the purpose of con-
veying a number of employees at the
the Superintendent office to Middle
town. that they might attend the fun
eral services of William Taylor, a
prominent lumber merchant who died
there on Saturday.
VIM. 9. Garner, noted as the leader
of the Mt. Friendship A. M. E. choir
some twenty years ago, died in Clay
ton on the 8th and was buried at Mt.
Friendship cemetery on the 18th. He
was Familiarity known as Button"
Garner. He was SO years old.
Rev. o. W. DeVenish is with his
friend, Rev. J. A. Buckson, at Lake
vile. Dorchester county, Maryland,
this week, assisting him in giving lee
turers for the purpose ofraising church
benevolences. An incident of his visit
there will be the excellent cunning
that Dorchester county affords.
The revival services which have been
going on at the st. Paul M. E. Church
have been closed for the present. The
meetings were all attended with much
spiritual interest, and although there
was not the revival they had hoped for,
yet the church has been benefited by
the meetings. 1t is the intention of
the pastor to continue revival services
every Sunday evening, and should the
indications warrant. services may again
be continued through the week.
The Ladies Aid of st. Paul NJ. E.
Church are preparing for supper to
be given in Pratt's store room Thanks
giving evening. The proceeds will &c
for the benefit of the church. During
the past week the ladies paid $4,000 Oh
the church parsonage Indebtedness.
When the parsonage was purchased
the Ladies Aid obligated to pay 5000 9
year on the Indebtedness of $1,000, the
purchasing price of the parsonage. anG
in addition to keep up the interest
This year, the first year, they have
paid off the $500 with the exception o.
$4,000.
President Cassatt and the Board o.
Directors of the Pennsylvania railroad
with a number of the heads of the de
partments, passed through Claytor
yesterday morning about o'clock fo
an inspection of the southern lines
Superintendent r. T.. Holiday of tn
Delaware Division was a member o
the party. The train consisted of on
of the finest engines and five of tn
most handsomely equipped cars in tn
service and 1t was watched with con
siderable interest as it stopped for
short while at Clayton.
Fiead-on CollisOn.-A bead-on colliso
on the Delaware railroad at Moore
Station, mile north of Laurel, abou
$50 O'Clock Saturday morning, resulte
in the demolition of two engines an