WORCESTER COUNTY— Three Members.
L. W. OLNEY, Democrat.

L. W. Olney is one of Worcester's energetic business men,
who through difficulties succeeded in securing a good busi-
ness education at Bryant & Stratton's Business College. He
has extensive interests in the oyster industry of the county
and is also engaged in the mercantile business. He has served
as County Commissioner, and also as member of the House ot
Delegates in 1888, and is at present a member of the School
Board of the county.

E. J. DIRICKSON, Democrat.

Dr. E. J. Dirickson, a member of the well-known Dirick-
son family of Worcester was born at Berlin in 1852. He
graduated in medicine at Jefferson Medical College in 1874.
and since that time has engaged in the practice of his profes-
sion and in caring for large interests in real estate. Though
taking an active interest in politics he has never before held
a political office and comes to the Legislature of 1902 entirely
unpledged except to the interest of his constitutents and gen-
eral advancement of those Democratic principles which he
thinks essential to republican government.

E. FILLMORE MERRILL, Democrat.

E. Fillmore Merrill was born in Worcester County in 1856
and educated in the public schools. He has served ten years
as trustee of the Pocomoke City High School, also as trustee
of the County Alms House. Mr. Merrill's father was a mem-
ber of the House of Delegates in 1876 and also Judge of the
Orphans' Court of the county.