Evening journal., 1902-03-31
AGED MEN AT DINNER
Prominent Men Of the Older Generation Do
Honor to Mr. ShaIIerOSs
Special TO the Evening Journal.

Hunn and the members of the Della
ware State Board of Agriculture sat
down Saturday with the most notable
company of men ever gathered at a
banquet in this State 1t was dinner
given ait the country home of Assem-
blyman James II. Shallcross in honor
Of his father Sereck Il. ShallcrOss. who
had reached his seth year, and of his
fathers boyhOOd playmates and asso-
ciates of young manhood. The elder
Mr. ShallcrOss. erect and jolly as ever,
gave little evidence, save in his snow
white locks, that the occasion was his
S6th birShday, which his son and his
guests were celebrating
All around the distinguished-loOlgi
veteran farmer sat men, vigorous in
spirit. though aged in body. There, for
instance. was Clement Reeves. who
grated and grew on his Delaware City
farms the first Reeves favorite
peaches, without which now no orchard
is complete. Next came Elias n. Moore,
79 originator of the MoOres' favOrite.
the variety OF peadh which has been
grown throughout the country for fifty
years. Next was James NJ. Vandegrift
SO; Leonard V. Aspril, 49, r. T. Coch-
ran. SS; Jonathan X. Williams, rs;
Joseph Roberts, so; Joseph Cleaver,
so. Thomas G. Reeves ID. w. COrbit,
John c. Corbit, j. E. Hendrickson. w.
Pearce Biggs, Joseph b. Brown, j. S.
| Gibson, George w. Ingram and COlum-
bus Watkins The special guests in
cluded Sereck f. Shallcross, Jr., S.
Harrington Messick and A. w. Slay-
maker.
The Rev. S. B. Hiley, pastor of the
First Baptist Church, conducted spe-
cial interesting services yesterday.
John w. MilbOurne was immersed yes
lterday morning and special music was
sung by the choir.
! Wesley NJ e. Church yesterday well
coined Easter-tide and a new minister
with an all-day Easter service. The
new minister is the Rev. L. e. Bar
rett, formerly pastor Of Middletown NJ.
/ E. Church. He preached from the text
Come, see the place where the Lord
| lay He gave an able discourse. which
pleased everybody. Wesley Chorus,
which was enlarged to forty voices es-
specially for Easter, rendered suitable
Easter music.
The Rev. n. o. Gibson, Edgar Wilson
and J. S. Goodwin. representing the
Dover Methodist Church, will leave on
! Tuesday for Centreville, Nd, to attend
the session of the Maryland Annual
| Conference, which cOnyenes in Grace
NJ. p. Church. The session will be
one of unusual interesttO the Methodist
| Protestants of the Peninsula who with
the members of that denomination in
Maryland and Virginia, comprise the
| Maryland Conference. The chief inter-
est centres inthe selection of a presi-
1nnf n crrnqoad tho Pow Melvin
who has served the full term of five
years in that capacity. The Rev. Glib
son. who is closing his third year as
pastor of the Dover church, probably
will be assigned to another field
Franklin, the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Eugene Cooper, caught fire and
was burned fatally and terribly before
aid reached him at his fathers home
near Sudlersville, Just across the Mary
land line The little fellow and his
, twin sister We're alone in the room at
the time, and it is supposed that he
found a match and lighted it.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Rust celebrated
the twentieth anniversary of their
: marriage at their home near HarbesOn,
II Sussex county, and entertained visitors
from Philadelphia, Dover, Milford,
Georgetown, Milton, Harbeson and
Lewes.
The Rev. Joseph Brown Turner
b. preached three Easter sermons yester-
, day. Besides the two sermons in his
own church-Dover Presbyterian-Mr.
Turner preached in the afternoon at
lFelton Presbyterian Church, in the alb
sence of the pastor, the Rev. John
Mitchell. who has gone to his home in
lQuilly MOneymOre, county Derry, Ire
! land.
The trustees Of Camden Union Camp
Ground will hold their annual meeting
at the grounds on Thursday, May l.
At this meeting the date for holding
the camp-meeting will be selected, and
the minister n-charge chosen.
Sakimas Tribe. of Milford Red Men
has elected the following chiefs, who
r will be raised up on April 21: s., J. T
Coverdale; Sr. S., j. p. Scott; Jr. s., w
, E. Haggard p, A. p. Tuthill; X. OF
W.. w. H. Richardson; c. of r., A. j.
4 Ross; c.. of W.. George Paisly; trustee
q w. j. Stevenson.
p George H. Wharton and Miss Fiossie
}, Johnson, both of Ocean View. will be
q married in the Christian Church, Ocean
Viey. next Wednesday evening, at
S o'clock.
! The young people of Harrington will
h give a dance in Reese's Opera House
I next Tuesday night.
y j. Palmer Weldon and Miss Mary
r Wilson. both of Lewes, were married
q at the home of the brides parents, in
p Market street, Lewes, the Rev. G.. r.
T Anderson officiating. The honeymoon
+ will be spent in Baltimore and Wash.
= ington.
. Superintendent James z. Carroll, o
the Kent county public schools, has ar.
ranged for two more local institutes tC
: be held during the school year-at
Harrington, April 10, and at Dover
April 26
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