Connecticut western news., 1912-06-13
The Wurra Wurra Club

tiously after it got started. Ozzle Vos- burgh was i'll the chair. in place of President Al. Briggs, who had to carry a man to Mill River to see a party about buying farm. The Opening Ode was executed by "Gat" DeHart, accompa- nied by a friend of bis with side, whiskers and a severe cold, who coughed whenever he struck high note but nobody minded it. Harry Holt started to read the minutes of the last meeting, but had to give it up, as they were in his own handwriting. and he couldn't remember what he wrote.
 The first important business to come before the meeting was a motion offered by Burt Peirce, that the janitor be in- structed to close the window back of him. Carried.
 Chairman Horace Humphrey, of the committee on heterogeneous amalgama- tions, reported that his committee had decided to recommend that the Club prepare suitable float" for the Fourth of July parade, and that Fred Scamer- horn had consented to ride on 1t. repre- senting the Goddess of Liberty. Donnie O'Neil bobbed up to protest. He said he wanted that job, himself, and be- Iieved he had a better figure for the character than Scamerhorn. Clarence Humphrey and Clint Roraback hutted into the controversy and thin, began to look dubious, when Chairm-n Vos- burgh threatened to have the room cleared if the dispute went any farther, and it was finally decided that the God dess of Liberty be abolished and the Three Graces adopted, for the float.
 Hen Ives, first assistant deputy chair man of the sick and death benefit committee, reported on the condition of Brother Ross, who had been confined to his bedside for over a week. and it was voted that the floral committee send him an appropriate flower piece. Chairman Ned Roberts, of that committee, stated that life. sized Tyre, made of dandy lyin' greens punctuated with mush- rooms, would be selected for the sufferer. ] H. E. Lyles offered set of sarcastic resolutions on the candidacy of local newspaper man for a half-dozen local offices, which the chair ordered him to read (At the risk of again offending the sensitive secretary of the Club we take the liberty of eliminating the reso- lutions from this report. There's such a thing as carrying joke too far.-Ed.) Frank Hitchcock rose to inquire of the fat member whether he finally succeeded in getting tickets for the Norfolk con. certs. The fat member said he did. "An' I went, too. along with my wife" he said. "I went tn fust night an tn last night Twas great. My wife sed so, an she knows, COS she used t sing in tn 'choruses till she got tired O gittin' froze out jest b'fore tn concerts come on. They's some good things in that | Jap'nese song. When they sung 'Peo- nies, peonies, five cents a bunch r I had t clap along with tn rest-my wife allus give me a hunch when t clap. But I had more fun watchin' Paine hyp 'nizin' tn big choir an twltchin' tn demi- -quivers out O that big ortches- try with h1s little hammer handle, than I did tryin' t keep tn place in tn book an find out what 1t was all about. He sure had them singers an fiddlers goin' somev-he cd made 'em eat out of his hand. Sumtimes I'd think tn singers was goin' t git through a heat a couple O lengths head O tn ortchestry, but Paine, he'd snap his imaginary whip over th' fiddlers an they'd glt right down t bizness an scratch tn catsguts till tn fiddles screamed fir mussy, an they'd close up tn gap an come under tn wire neck an neck, fine as ye please, an make dead heat of it. Tn progum book wasn't no use t me-it fuddled me Eup. When they was playin' 'Alfredity,' an Chadwick was drlvin', undertook t keep track an make tn music tally up with tn progum. Tn music was illustratin' moonlight on tn sea, an tn storm, an tn lovers, an children play in, an a great army approachin'. an so on. Wa'al, when I heard tn storm called my wlfe's 'tention t tn thunder an wind an rain, but she sez, Why, you fat idjit. that's tn moonlight on tn sea you'd better study up on musical anatomy Little bit later, when tn zoboes an bassoons got t. howlin' their dumdest, sez, t my wife, 'Wa'al. old gal, ye don't fool me this time i; that's tn great army approachin' an she look ed at me, disgustin' an sez, Great gran mother approachin' Thass tn lovers don't you know nothin'?'