The Newtown bee., 1906-08-24
New Milford,

A GREAT SUNDAY SCHOOL AWAKEN
 Twenty conventions are to be held in this state during the month Of September, one of which will be at New Milford. September 4. The Lithfield Southwest Auxiliary of the State Sunday School Association will hold their annual meeting in the con. gregational church at New Milford on September 4, in cooperation with the great Sunday school specialists who are touring the state. The tour party will consist of Rev Elliott F. Tal- madge, secretary of the Connecticut Sunday school association and two specialists have been secured. Miss Clara Louise Ewalt of Ohio will be the specialist for the Elementary Grades and for the Home Depart ment. Dr Joseph Clark, General Sec retary of the Ohio sunday School As sociation, in his recent annual report, says of her: "Miss Ewalt has developed during the three years of her service with this Association into one of the formost Primary specialists in Ameri- ca. As an Institute lecturer on Pri- mary and Junior work she has few peers. Her fame has gone abroad, and the calls for service in other fields , have been numerous At the Hta- watha Park Assembly last July, Miss Ewalt delivered two lectures daily for 10 days on her special line of work be- fore the largest audiences recorded on l the daily programs. At the urgent solicitation of the California Sunday School Association, the Business Com mittee granted to Miss Ewalt 8 leave of absence for three months, for the purpose of doing special work among the counties of that state" The other specialist is B. Q. Knapp, in. structor in Bible School Administra- tion in the Hartford School of Relig- perintendent of the Connecticut Sun. Sunday sui School Worker of May, 1906, says conderning him: Perhaps no young man in America has had larger opportunities for specializing in Sun. day school work than has MT Knapp. He may very properly be called an all round Sunday school man. For sev. eral years he was busy in the Michi- gan work. Re will be remembered in Ohio as 8 member of the Ohio State Tour in the spring of 1903. His name has appeared as a speaker on three Ohio State convention programs. As superintendent of the Fourth church Sunday school, Hartford, and later as Director of Bible Study in the Broad. way Tabernacle Sunday school, New York City; as contributor to the col. ums of the "Church Economist" he has won for himself a name in the Sunday school world. MT Knapp has just accepted chair in the Hartford School of Religious Pedagogy, Hart. ford, Conn.,, and will devote several years to the training of young people for Sunday school work"
 JUDGE THE ORIGINATOR OF THH SQUARE DEAL"
 By the courtesy of J. H. Nettleton of New Milford, Conn.,, Judge is able to recall bit of forgotten comic draw ing which entities him to the credit of originating the ''sQuare deal" The picture was published in Judge ovel IT years ago. It will be seen that not only in caption, but in sentiment, mo- tive and intent, 1t antedates by many years the principle upon which much of the fame of President Roosevelt rests. Judge has no disposition at this time to attempt to wrest from the President his laurels. In the words of a noted admiral, "There is glory enough for all." A glance at the pic. ture will show in what spirit the orig. inal was conceived, and how adequate ly the whole subject is set forth. Nothing could better show the basic idea of perfect fairness. On the one side is the evident tendency to over. reach, and on the other is the quick insiStence on the square deal. We have no doubt that here was the be- ginning of the crusade which in these latter days has reached such universal dimensions. We are much obliged to our Connecticut correspondent for put ting us on the track of the initial origin of such bene6cent movement Judge.
 FINE INTERIOR DECORATIONS AT WAR. | REIN CHURCH.
 John HannOn has just completed the contract of decorating the interior of the Congregational church at Warren. The handsome scheme and design was laid out by Artist H. D. Hine, who as. sisted MT Hannon. The side walls are of light tone, green buff, the cell. ings in deep cream, an Italian renais. sance frieze. Back of the pulpit is 8 large panel bearing the inscriptions "The Lord Our God be with us as He was with our Fathers. Let Him Not Leave us or FOrSake us.
 Miss Lillian Osborne of Danbury has been visiting friends in town.
 Miss Minnie Toussaint, popular clerk at w. G. Barton s store, is taking her annual vacation.