Connecticut western news., 1911-07-20
The Wurra Wurra Club

The meeting opened with burlesque parade and Maypole dance, by Lew Rhoades, which was taken down in short hand by Sam. Camp. accompanied by Jay Underwood on the melodeon. After the applause had subsided a motion was offered by H. E. byles that the funds re- maining in the hands of the treasurer after paying the expense of installing the officers of the Wurra Wurra Woman 8 Relief Corps, be turned over to the Ca- naan Water Go. and the Berkshire Power Go. Unanimously passed.
 Judge Ford came to the front with his inevitable sidewalk proposition, and moved "that the sidewalk committee be ordered to summon John Cudnev before it to submit to an investigation as to his reasons for discontinuing the work of sidewalk construction at the eastermost end of Vosburgh's store, and that the said committee be empowered to sum- mon witnesses and compel the produo- tion of all books, papers, documents and correspondence bearing upon the subject; also that the subcommittee on moral suasion and honeyfugle be instructed to get busy with neglectful property owners and beguile them into becoming spirit of local and divic pride" .r.
 l"Jest minute," butted in. the fat member. II make a motion that we don't pass any such motion. Now l ain't no sech fool that can't see that this motion is shootin' at me. s'pose some O these skivic pride shouters an self-applnted reform howlers that don t pay no taxes but wants t. run things their own way, thinks my sidewalk haiR't good huff for 'em t walk on, jest becoz it's got cracks in it an hain't made O cement. Now they's jest this about it-ye can build cement sidewalk plum up t my line on one side, an ye can build a cement sidewalk plum up to 1t on t'other side, an if see fit t' leave my walk full O cracks an holes, like 8 black gap betwixt tn two, I'm a'goin' t leave it that way, an ye can'e scare me int putin down a new walk, nor ye can't bulldoze me nor shame me nor suasion me nor boycott me int doin' any diff'rent, an ye can talk about sklvio pride an improved appearance an in. creased value an public sperrit all ye dunn please. This is free country, an if I'm satisfied t have cracked sidewalk in front O my place I'm goin' t have it, an let tn neighbors go hang if they don't like my style. Now I reckon ye know where I stand. on tn sidewalk question.Y
 Charlie Adam proposed that the con- gregation rise and sing one stanza of something, emitting if you please the second and third stanzas, He was de- clared out of order, anu as Judge Ford's motion was not seconded there was no business before the house.
 Ed. Warner got up to inquire, if the Woman's Relief Corps was to be institu- ted at the present session, and which leading lady" in the telephone office it was who had been elected president of the Corps. Sam. Reel, chairman of the committee on institution, reported that since the Heading lady" announcement was made, some question has arisen among the leading ladies in the tele- phone office, as to the identical leading lady referred to, and It might be neces- sary to take another ballot to settle the kdispute.
 MT. Warner suggested that the Corps be requested to select the lady with the "silver ripple in her voice, ," who always repeats the number you call for, and doesn't act as if her library book had to be returned in fifteen minutes and she hadn't got to the last chapter yet" The chair ruled the matter out of order and asked if anybody had safe and sane motion to make.
 Dr. Ross asked if it would not be in order for the committee on plan and scoop, for the Bridge Celebration, to re- port on the present status of the under taking
 Chairman Henry Ives, of the commit tee, got up and said he didn't have hls report with him. but he had something just as good, whereupun he proceeded to read the directions of the state board of agriculture for killing the seventeen year locusts. June Rhoades interrupted the reading, with the suggestion that the document be entered among the poems sent to the committee for con- petition in the Bridge Ode prize contest. On motion of Henry Whitferd the whole matter was laid under the table.
 After Frank Hitchcock had been given an opportunity to practice the song and dance which he will perform on the evening of the fifth day of the celebra-