Smyrna times., 1902-01-08

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CLAYTON.
Items Of Interest Cleaned From the DOings
In and About Town:
The ladies of the W. G. 7. u, will
meet this evening at the home of Mrs.
w. q. Onley,
The Ladies Aid of st. Pauls Church
will meet Friday evening, at the home
of Mrs. VanDyke.
The Town Council has had the low
places in the streets of the town COW
cred with oyster shells.
The Bible Glass of Trinity Church,
will meet this evening at the home of
Mrs. Thos. Holiday.
A business meeting of the Ladies
Aid of Ewell's Church, will be held at
the home of Mrs. Henry Seiders, next
Tuesday.
The subject for the sermon next Sun
day morning at Ewell's NJ. P. Church,
will be the last one on "Pilgrim's
Progress. Revival services will
begin Sunday night.
Rev. J. NJ. Arters, of Fairlee, Md,
spent Sunday with his father, Rev. j.
A. Arters, and incidently filed the
pulpit at st. Paul's Church Sunday
evening to an appreciative audience.
George Bramble, of Middletown,
who formerly conducted barber shop
in Wilmington, will open out shortly
in this town in the Wright property
now occupied ay j. A. Davis.
William Boggs, of this town, Who
has been connected with Fl. P. Shapley
in Smyrna, for over two years, has
purchased the tonsorial business of
FIR tnk Stirling, and will take possess
ion March 1st,
Word has been received here of the
serious illness of Joseph Wheatherby,
who recently moved from here to Phil
adelphia. MTg Wheatherby is suffer
ing with pnerf fmonia in one of the hos
pitfalls in the bOve city.
The Christmas Sunday School en-
tertaip26taf which was to have been
helG1at Trinity Church, and which was
ma5stponed on account of diphtheria.
of VI be given tomorrow evening, at
ex,5 home of Mrs. J. A. Burchenal.
The public schools, after recess of
. seventeen days, reopened last Thurs
day morning. The Institute and the
holidays took up greater part of the
recess, while the diphtheria scare filled
in the rest of the time.
The members of EwelPs Church, will
elect delegate next Sunday morning,
to represent Clayton charge at the next
Maryland Annual Conference, of the
IN. P. Church, to be held at Centre
vile, Nd, the first Wednesday IN
April.
Mr.. Clarence Marin of near town,
and Miss Daisy Belle Ennis, of Phila-
delphia, were married on January 1st.,
at o'clock, p. M, at the home of the
brides parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Ennis, of Philadelphia, by the Rev. j.
w. Tindall, pastor of 22nd Street M.
E. Church, Philadelphia Pa.
Wages of engineers, conductors, bag
gagemasters, breakmen and fagmer
on the P. w. & B. railroad Monday
received notices of an advance in tn,
rates per trip now paid to an extent o
to74 per cent. The rates are nov
fixed and will be issued in a few days
The advance is to date from last Wed
nssday, January 1st. The wages o
enginemen on yard engines and othe
trainmen practically are all raised &C
coIdingly.
The following officers were electeC
last Sunday for Ewell's Sunday Schoc
for the ensuing year: Superintendent
Chas. Brown; Assistant Superinten
dent, Ezekiel Shaw; Treasurer, Mrs
John Allen; Secretary, Merritt lay
lor; Assistant Secretary, Herman Clay
ton; Librarian, VIM: Skinner; Organ
list, Mrs. Florence Burns; Assistar
Organist, Mrs. Amos; Superintender
of Infant Department, Mrs. Henr
Seiders; Assistant Superintendent {