Connecticut western news., 1912-04-04
The Wurra Wurra Club

The clock was just striking 8:I3 when pr. Corwin stood up and said that in the unavoidable absence of Al. Hubbard it would be necessary to elect temporary chairman pro tenn. Lew RhOades said he'd take the job if they wanted him to, as he needed the experience, and by unanimous vote he got it. The minutes of the last meeting were read by MT. John C. Roraback, attorney and coun- sellor at law, who stated that the allega- tions therein set forth were subject to revision by referendum vote of the mem- bers. Nobody kicked.
 Joe Parsons, the club chorister, was instructed to sing the Opening Ode, but to horror of the assembled members he struck up the "Houn' Dawg" song, and pitched it two notes too high, at that. There was no encore.
 Comrade Horace Humphrey moved that a picnic committee be appointed to arrange for a summer outing of the Club, some time or other after the snow goes off and the robins come out of their holes. Ed. Warner seconded the mo- ton and offered the use of his property in Joyce Avenue as a picnic ground, but said he would reserve the cane-ringing privilege for himself. The motion was stabbed.
 A resolution was presented by June Rhoades expressing the "left-handed compliments of the Club to the state agricultural college professor who made a definite promise to come to Canaan on a certain date to give a demonstration of tree pruning and spraying, and then switched his base of operation, for that date, to another town" The chair order ed the resolution tabled without debate, as being In questionable taste.
 Burt Peirce offered a motion "that the Club form itself into a street-cleaning brigade to follow up the patriotic exsm- pie set by His Honor Judge Roraback, who had personally opened up the gutters in several places about the center of the village, which the street department had not found time to do." MT. Peirce stated that "there is plenty of opportunity for the members to show their good citizen ship and remedy the nasty appearance of the streets and walks, by taking their shovels and getting down to vigorous work"
 | Donnie O'Neil rose to his feet and made the suggestion that the gentleman's ] |. ( fts. tI, ner as the preceding resolution, as be- ing in questionable taste" There was d lot of hot discussion over the proposition {; the meeting seemed divided into factions, and the deliberations were fast assuming the aspect of a free-for-all row, when 1 Judge Ford rescued the situation by reading in loud tone of voice an invita- ton from the Cabbageer Cadets, request ing the presence of the Club, in body, at the next sauer kraut-f fest, to be held in the barber-shop after Lent. Principal Eldridge moved that the invitation be accepted, with thanks, and so it was.
 Mir. Peirce got up again, and meekly inquired whether it would be in order to suggest that the "clean-up day." to be fixed by the Business Mems Association, be made a legal holiday in the Club3
 The chair said that according to the law and the precedents, as set forth in some book or other, Chapter so-and-so, and Section so-and-so it would appear that, barring the possibility of miscon- struction and allowing for intent-which is always to be reckoned with as a factor there was palpable ground on which he might base an official opinion that it might be, or that it might not be. MT. Peirce said that was about the way be sized it up, and asked the chair for a chew of tobacco, but didn't get it, as the chair doesn't chew.
 Henry Ives said he would like to get the sentiment of the members on the ad- visibility of organizing a building and loan association in Canaan, to see il something cannot be done to promote the growth and industrial development of the town. "There isn't so much as q new chicken coop being built here this spring." said he, "and so far as materia growth is concerned the town is as dead as a herring. Now we cant stay tha way very long. If we don't go forward we're sure to go backward, and the retro grade movement will begin-'
 "Let itw exclaimed the fat member waddling to his feet. "What tn thunder