Connecticut western news., 1912-04-25
The Wurra Wurra Club

In the avoidable absence of pr. Cor win, who was in East Canaan talking politics with George Cunning, there was nobody to toastmaster the regular busi- ness meeting of the Club, until Select man Billy" Reel got up and instructed the town clerk to take charge. MT, Full Ter begged to decline, but it didn't go, and he mounted the throne, hit the table thumP with a monkey-wrench and de clared the meeting open in the third de- gree. Bert Brewer, being ordered to chant the Opening Ode, struck up "Susan Had Baby" but got stuck on the second line and ended up with an imitation of Eddie Adams fddling the "Rocky Roads" with hairless fiddle-stick. The minutes of the last meeting were considered not worth while, and the clerk, Billie Bullock, put them into the coal scuttle.
 Dr. Lee rose to a point of personal privilege. As member of the Wurra Wurra Club, he said, he wished to place on record his emphatic protest against the palpable prejudice exhibited by the compiler of the list of Canaan societies, clubs and so forth, as printed in the local paper last week, in emitting, evidently with malice aforethought, the name of this Club.
 "Yes, and that wasn't the only organ ization that didn't get into the list" re- marked Joe Parsons. There Is the Thim- ble Club, and the Assembly, the Woman's s Relief Corps, and that comparatively new organization, the Husbands, Broth CTS and Others club. move that a com mittee be appointed to investigate and find out if any member of this Club gave that list to the paper, and if the wretch Is identified, that he be dumped off the roll"
 "Or rolled off the dump" said Seneca Strong, putting in.
 Ed. Warner said he thought the whole matter should be dropped. at looks like making a whole lot of fuss over nothing '' said he, and we may have some impor- ldnI DuslnCss lO IlkCId kOs
 The chair declared the whole business out of order.
 Sam Camp rose and invited the whole Club to psrtake of a trout banquet with him Monday evening.
 Ned Roberts saked Sam if he had the trout ready for dressing, and Sam re- piled "No, but Pm going fishing the day before the banquet, and thatll give plenty of time to dress them" Roberts said he had no objection to the Club attending the banquet, but he would advise the members not to go there on an empty stomach, but to eat square meal before starting for the banquet hall.
 Mir Lyles got up and called attention to the big suffragist meeting to be held in Town Hall next Monday evening, and stated that he had a supply of tickets which "gentlemanly agents will now pass among you" to distribute.
 The fat member grabbed his hat and made a rush for the door. Clint. Rora- back tried to grab him, but he slipped through the guard of the famous center rush and got away, stumbling on the top stair and rolling clear to the bottom with series of thumps that sounded like a house falling down.
 Henry Ives rose to inquire if anybody could tell when and where that bald headed club was to hold its banquet, as vaguely referred to last week, "not that it would have any particular interest for me-" he explained, "but as a matter of idle curiosity"
 Fred Collin said he understood 1t was to be held in the "open hair" and lodged just in time to escape having his cocoa nut cleft by the fre-shovel which Ives hurled at him.
 Robert Peirce rose to inquire if tho Clubs committee on insurance rate re- duction had ever rendered its report. John Sheridan, chairman of the Com mittee, said he had a report all made out once, but that was before the insurance experts had made the new rates, and it was deemed best to destroy the commit tee report and substitute a speech by Ted dy Roosevelt on the subject, "Out of the Frying Pan Into the Fire"
 Charlie Adam got up and implored the chair to declare the insurance reduction matter out of order and impose a nominal fine upon Peirce for bringing it up. Be- fore the echoes of his voice had died away, however, somebody moved to ad- journ, and the lights went out.
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