Connecticut western news., 1910-12-15
The Wurra Wurra Club

The charter members of the Wurra Wurra Club got together Saturday night for formal organization and the election and installation of officers. Judge Ford presided.
 The committee on gerrymander re- ported that six wards had been laid out, from each of which the members had elected one representative to speak for the ward in the deliberations of the Club. The first ward had elected fat member as its representative the second ward a pious member; the third a stuttering member; the fourth wicked member i; the fifth a bald-headed member, and the sixth bow-legged member. E
 The committee on constitution and by. laws submitted draft of the document. which stipulated tha< horse sense alone should qualify person for active mem bership, while candidates for honorary membership must be endorsed by the committee on moral character. The preamble set forth the aims and pur- poses of the organization as "any busi- ness that may come regularly or other wise before it."
 The preliminary business was dis patched in short order, and the president asked if any member had anything to offer. ......,
 The bald-headed member moved that a committee be appointed to wait upon 1 Superintendent Rhoades, of the Water Company and find out the exact status of the water supply. "We are getting all kinds of reports from outsiders, {" said he, ''and it is about time we had something straight from headquarters. !"
 The wicked member rose to remark that the situation isn't bad. Said he 1. I've may trust in Providence for the water supply as long as the pipes are full; and when the faucets begin to spit and splutter and whisper to us that there's nothing doing, and the fat divi- dends are threatened, then we may trust to the water company to hnd a way to fill 'em up again." The fat member remarked that "Since the town went dry there's whole lot of worryin' over the water supply. all at once. The reservoy was low last year at this time, but nobody seemed to care anything about it. and nobody died of thirst. It reminds me of what the old fellow used to say, You never miss the water till the bar-room's closed Now it's dollars to doughnuts that the peo- pie who are cryin' the loudest about the scarcity of water are usin' it just as ex- travagant as when the reservoy was full. Folks use hundred times more water than they ought to, any way. FIT in- stance. you or I'll go to the sink to wash up. Instead of fillin' up the wash bowl we Il turn on the faucet and wash in the runnin' water, and we'll leave the water runnin' till after we've got our selves washed and wiped, and sometimes till we've combed our hair and cleaned our tseth-there' not less than half barrel of water used up, when quart would have been plenty. Same way when we drink-we let it run till it gets good and cold, then rinse out the tum- bier three or four times, and finally catch glassful and drink it, leavin' the faucet open, full force, all the time we're drinkin' and never shut it of. till we've got through and put the tumbler up and wiped our lips with the towel and hung the towel up again. There's another half barrel of water gone, just for one tumblerful. What the water consumers need more than anything else is little hoss sense."
 The matter was referred to the com- mittee on hoss sense.
 On motion of the stuttering member the chair appointed a committee ot six, consisting of Members Parsons, Rora- back, Whitford, Humphrey, Marvin and Camp, to "pup-pup-prepare a pup-pup- rogram for the Christmas sus-sus-elebra- tion of the Wow-wow-wurra Wurra Club, and report to the next mum-mum- meeting"