Smyrna times., 1900-02-07
WILMINGTON CONFERENCE,
ANNUAL SESSION TO BE HELD IN VIII.
MINGTON IN MARCH.
Will be an Important Meeting. Besides
Usual Work There Will be an Election
of Delegates to General Conference.

The thirty-second annual session of
the Wilmington Conference will hold
its sessions for a week in Wilmington
next month.
The 175 preachers of the Methodist
churches in Delaware, the Eastern
Shore of Maryland and that part Of
Virginia lying between the Chesapeake
Bay and the Atlantic Ocean, the con-
ference territory, are now busy taking
their collections and preparing their
annual reports for the gathering in
Wilmington. The conference will he
held in Epworth Church, Rev. Francis
Burgette Short, pastor.
Beside the regular ministers there
are 125 local preachers. Rev. Bishop
Edward G.. Andrews of New York city,
will preside at the conference.
A number of young candidates will
apply to be received into the ministry.
Candidates who have been received on
trial will pass their examinations in
order to be advanced. The roll of the
dead ministers will be called and an
entire service given up to their men,
ory.
And then, too, four ministerial dele
gates will be elected to the General
Conference, which meets in Chicagoin
May, and the lay conference will elect
four lay delegates. Who these eight
1A1a1okac l. . Aho s,Ao
ing topic of gossip in conference cir
cles. The best opinion is that the
ministerial delegates will be elected
from the following prominent leaders
of the conference: Rev. w. F. Cork
ran, of Smyrna; Rev. DIR. Robert
Watt and Rev. DIR. W. L. S. Murray,
of Wilmington; Rev. A. S. Mowbray,
of Port Deposit, Md; Rev. G. A. Hill,
of Smyrna; Rev. DIR. Vaughn S. Col
Inns, principal of Dover Academy;
Rev. G. S. Baker, of Dover, and Rev.
7. E. Martindale, of Salisbury, NJ.
1t is more difficult to guess who the
lay delegates will be. If Chief Justice
Lore were eligible he would undoubt-
edly be one of them. But he has not
been a member of the church the con-
stitutional length of time. The follow
ing are all spoken of as possibilities:
William H. Jackson, of Salisbury,
Md; H. P. Cannon, Bridgeville, Md. !;
Congressman John H. Hoffecker,
of Smyrna; S. H. Baynard, of Viii
mingtOn; L. E. P. Dennis, of Girls
field, Nd, and Professor J. E. Car
roll, of Dover.
Among the preachers and charges
likely to change are the following: In
the Dover District, Rev. w. G. Koons,
Bridgeville; Rev. ]. NJ. Mitchell, Ell
lendale; Rev. G. H. Williams, Green
wood; Rev. J. A. Buckson, Lakesville;
Md; Rev. J. D. Kemp, Magnolia;
Rev. J. P. Outten, Nassau; Rev. r. K
Stephenson, Seaford (posslbly), and
Rev. J. E. Graham, Wyoming.
In the EastOn District-Rev. J. A.
Arters, Cecilton, Nd; Rev. Edwin
Gardner, Cheswold and Bethel; Rev.
A. w. Prettyman, Galena, Nd; Rev.
W. o. Hurst, Odessa; Rev. I. B.
Cooper, Oxford, Md; Rev. o. Z. Bay
nard, Queenstown, Md, Rev. J. H.
Beauchamp, st. Michael, Md, and
Rev. I. F. Tabler, Trappe, Nd.
In the Salisbury District-Rev. G.
G. Spencer, Asbury. Md. Rev. G. W.
Bounds. Deals Island; Rev. L. P.
Corkran, Fairmount; Rev. F. F. Car.
penter, Frankford; Rev. w. E. Mat
thews, Fruitland. Md; Rev. H. c.
Turner, Girdletree, Nd; Rev. G.. W.
Woodall, Laurel, Del; Rev. J. F.
Anderson, Marion, Nd; Rev. J.
d. Reese, Mt. Vernon, Md; Rev. E
H. Nelson, Nanticoke, Md; Rev. As
bury Burke, Onancock, Va; Rev. ID.
II. Willis, Powellville, Md; Rev. G.
I. Anderson, Princess Anne, Md; Rev
G.. L. Hardesty, st. Peter s, Md; Rev
d. F. McFaul, Smiths Island, Nd.
Rev. G. p. Swain, Tangier, Va; Rev
H. S. Dulaney, Whitesville. And il
the Wilmington District, the following
Rev. w. r. McFarlane, Christiana
Rev. H. S. Thompson, Delaware City
Del. Rev I. H. Harding, Marshaltor
and Stanton; Rev. J. 7. Prouse, Ret
Lion and Glasgow; Rev. r. T. Cour
scr Harrison street; Rev. E. S. Mace
k.a sood; Rev. T. Soderman, Swed
ish Mission, Wilmington, and Rev. W
r. Mowbray, Zion Circuit, Md.
The following are the officers of tn
conference: Rev. A. s. Mowbray, sec
retary; Rev. w. A. Wise and Rev. 2
IA. Webster, assistants; Rev. John d
Rigg, journalist; Rev. w. r. Nov
bray, statistical secretary; Rev. G. A
Ggise, treasurer.
Rev. B. f. Price is the oldest mem
Der of conference, having begun hi
ministry sixty-four years ago.