The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-06
PLAN STATE MEETING
Sunday School Workers To Meet
at Wausau Next Month TO
Consider Their Work
? COMMENT SPEAKERS READY
Leading Sunday School Workers of
the Country Deliver Addresses at
the Meeting and Interesting
Time is Assured
? COMMENT SPEAKERS READY

"a, and is to have some of the fore
most religious speakers and instructors
Of America on the program.
The elimination on the closing night
will be the great lecture by DR.. A. c.
Dixon of Chicago, on stThe Trials and
Triumphs of Faith. = To this an ad-
mission fee will be charged to all
others than enrolled delegates who have
paid the one dollar enrolment fee
which entities the delegate to all
privileges, program, official badge, re-
served seat throughout the convention
and the association paper for year.
Other great addresses will be by
Rev. w. A. Brown, western field secre
tary of the Young People S Mission
airy Movement who gave one of the
strongest addresses in the convention
at Neenah last year Then DIR. G.. H.
Beale, perhaps Wisconsin s most dis
tinguished preacher-orator has been Sc
cured for great address or lecture
on the middle evening.
Effort is being made to secure the
foremost apostle of graded handwork
in the Sunday school, Rev. M. s. Lit
tlefeld, of Brookfeld, N. Y. Charles
d. Meigs, of Indianapolis, known from
the Atlantic to the Pacific as one of
the best instructors and most attrac-
tive speakers in the field, will speak
several times. w. B. Jacobs Of Chi
cago, the oldest General Secretary in
the country and speaker of excep-
tional power has promised to speak to
the convention.
Dr. Franklin McElfresh, the interna-
tional teacher training superintendent
will give addresses and lessons through
out the sessions; as will also Mr.. j.
Shreve Durham of Kentucky, now of
the international force.
Mrs. w. J. Semelroth will be in
charge Of the elementary grades ses-
sion and conferences, in which num-
Der of the most expert teachers of lit
tie children in the state will also be
speakers.
There will be separate sections for
definite instruction in missions, in tenn
perance,, in the secretary s work, in the
superintendent S work, and others, be-
sides the sections by the international
leaders on training, adult class
organization and house to house visi-
tation.
A special feature will be ten of the
most experienced Sunday school super
intendents in the state on the platform
to answer questions during the great
superintendent conference that is
planned.
Another special feature of the 1909
convention will be the visitation of
every home in Wausau during given
hour, when the visitors will go to the
homes to gather religious census, one
being a resident of Wausau and the
other one of the outside delegates.
This movement will be led by j. Shreve
Durham of Kentucky who has had
great success in similar visitations in
other cities.
The music will be in charge of F. E.
Hathaway of Chicago, one of the abl
est and most successful convention
leaders in America and fine soloist.
He will be supported by fine chorus
choir organized at Wausau for the
convention.
Many other names of distinguished
Wisconsin men, both divines and bust
ness men, as well as professional
teachers and successful Sunday school
workers, will be added to the program
and will be given in later announce
ments.
The Wisconsin Sunday School AS
ISOLATION is making marked progress,
forty-se of the counties now being
organized for the development of
teachers and better teaching. Every
preparation is being made for the larg-
est and best Sunday school convention
ever held in the state. Entertainment
of delegates at Wausau will be on the
Harvard Plan,' lodging and break
fast free. and other meals at low prices
and at places convenient to the church.
This free entertainment is limited, so
that delegates intending to be there
should write long in advance to Mrs.
IB. A. Benson, III Second avenue,
South. chairman of entertainment COM
mittee, Wausau, to be sure to secure
places. Every pastor, officer, teacher
and adult pupil of every Sunday school
lin the state is invited to be dele
gate.
Terri Krukratski, Chicago man, As
years of age, was arrested at the vii
Ilage of Somers Friday evening by Con-
stable Truesdel. It is supposed that
the man is insane and it is certain that
his actions were very unusual. He is
being held at the county jail under the.
care of a physician and if his condition
warrants it an examination viii be held
hafo,.e JUDGE SIosson on Monday.