Connecticut western news., 1911-11-09
The Wurra Wurra Club

The services were opened with good loud, robust sneeze by Chairman Wallace Garfield, who had been sitting in draft.
 The window was pulled down and the proceedings went forward with neatness and dispatch.
 School Superintendent Vogel was call ed upon by the chair to give report of the hog killing soiree at West Cornwall, last Friday, but that gentleman stated that another school teacher had thrown up her job on that day, and he had other things to worry about than such frivolous festivities as the butchering bee. So there was no report.
 Ned. Roberts was asked by Joe Parsons if he wasn't going to do anything in recognition of the honor thrust upon him in the shape of unanimous election as secretary of the Business Mems Associa- tion at the smoker, Thursday night.
 "Sure I am," replied Ned.
 "What?" inquired Joe.
 "Keep the minutes of the meetings, ,h was the reply, whereat Joe subsided, and the chair rapped for order.
 George Roger got up and offered a resolution, that "Whereas, so much of the responsibility of the town has been selected for court service, within the last week, be 1t resolved, that the Wurra Wurra Club institute, as an auxiliary, a higher degree, or exclusive Chapter; of the order, to be known as the Criminal l Consistory, to which none'shall be ellgi- ble except such members of the Wurra Wurra Club as have qualified by taking the grand jurors degree" ..'...
 Lester Adams wanted to know if the resolution didn't contemplate,i in certain sense, class legislation, and whether such procedure would not be declared uncon- stitutional by the Clubs attorney gen. eral. E.t .a
 "To be sure it is class legislation" re- piled MT. Roger, "but hasn't the recent procedure created a special class, and given us--I mean them-a special dis tinction" ....~
 Judge Ford got up and stated that he was in sympathy with the movement and that he would like to be qualified to ride the goat in the proposed Consistory, and didn't know but he might be, yet.
 Clint Roraback said the"Criminal Club of Yale, was one of the most brilliant and popular organizations of the undergradu- ate body, and he didn'tsee why theWurra Wurra Club should not go ahead and in- stitute and incorporate its proposed Con- sistory, with a special ritual and degrees of its own. f...
 Dan. Sweeney moved to lay the whole matter under the table. And that's just what happened to it.
 Sam. Camp moved that the Club march down to the Canaan Hose Company s headquarters tonight in a body, to see how the tiremen are going to entertain and interest the Business Mems Associa- ton.
 Henry Ives jumped up to assert that if there was any member of the Wurra Club who was not also member of the Business Mems Association he should be fired.
 "Well, I ain't no member O tn Business Mems Association, nor I ain't a'goin' to be, nuther," declared the fat member.
 "Of course not, rejoined Ives. "There's always got to be some who wouldn't make good members if they got in. Oi course there's a lot of good men, pro. gressive men, who are not members, but are nevertheless in sympathy with the aims of the Association, and always ready to cooperate in a good cause. Then there are others who feel that their mission in life is to sheer and try to ob. struct progress. Fortunately they don't carry any weight, and while they don't help any they really don't amount to enough to hinder any"
 "Meanin' me?" asked the fat member. "Meaning nobody else," was the reply
 The motion was put to vote and carried Watson Hardenbergh sent his resigna ton as a member of the Club, to the sec retary, who read it to the meeting By unanimous vote the Club refused to ac cept it. Watson declared that if the Clut wouldn't take it he'd give to the church for somebody had got to get it. Ed Warner offered to swap something for il but just then the chair rapped for order and Horace Humphrey moved to adjourn Adjourned.
 Caller-I suppose the rain affects youl , church attendance quite considerably Clergyman-Oh yes, indeed. Wher