Connecticut western news., 1912-09-26
The Wurra Wurra Club.

When the whistle blew for the exer- cises to begin, Mir. Seneca B. Strong, sexton of the Club, announced that Presi- dent Baker was away out in Detroit at tending the big races with "Harm" Bron- son, of New Haven, and the meeting would have to get along without him. Mayor Rowe jumped up and said he would preside,as a matter of accommoda- ton, but Billie Bullock reached the throne ahead of him and said he guessed he'd run the show once, himself, just for the experience, as he'd never had a whack at it. While they were wrangling over possession of the gavel, Sheriff Rhoades walked up, with that majestic stride of his, and showed both volunteers aside, with the remark:
 By authority of the state of Connecd- cut in said district deceased, notice is hereby given to all parties interested, that I'll boss this exhibition, my self Come to order"
 The meeting came to order "I will now sing the Opening Ode," said Rhoades, "and l want you all to keep still till get through" And he sang It. You ought to have heard it. There was no encore.
 "The secretary will now read the min utes of the last meeting" said the chair.
 "Read them yourself" retorted Secre- tary Ganci. "If you're running the whole show, run it." The reading of the minutes was dispensed with.
 "We will now hear the report of the committee appointed to see that the suffragist ladies got fair play at the hands of the registrars on registration day." said the chair.
 w. A. Wright, chairman of the com mittee, got up and reported that he had seen the list of ladies who had declared their intention of registering, and con cluded that they were in every way abundantly capable of looking after their own interests, without any steering com ] mittee; therefore the committee had de- cded not to butt in. The report was laid on the table and the committee ordered to be measured by the Bertilon system.
 Brother Roger moved that the Club vote an expression of its appreciation of the manner in which the Canaan Hose Company upheld the banner of the town, at the big fremen's muster in Winsted. "Our boys not only made good appear ance and marched and behaved in a way to be proud of" said he, "but they were deprived of the honor of bringing home prize from the hose race, by an unfor- tunate error of judgment for which the blame rightly belongs to the officials of the contest who failed to keep the crowds from surging upon the race course and obstructing the view of the hydrant. If the wrangling between the competitors and the officials had not de- layed the starting of the races so long that our boys turn to run didn't come until after dark, there would have been a different story to tell. As it was, there wasn't team in the contest that made better actual running time than the Ca naan team, regardless of the announced figures. Furthermore, they entered the race after going over the entire siX-mile line of march, whereas the winners of the first prize, composed of trained and virtually professional runners, marched only few yards, at the beginning of the parade, when they quietly left the line and went to their quarters, to be put to bed for a nap, and groomed and codded like raoe-horses, and were enabled to enter the races fresh and fit"
 The vote of appreciation was passed.
 Brother Lyles said he would like to hear report from the com Littee appointed to attend the caucuses to see that high class nominations were made, and only men of high character and intelligence were selected to run for the town offices.
 The fat member rose. "I was on that committee" said he, but l don't have no time to go to no corcuses; an it's as much as eyer I can do to git out lection day. 1 ast one O tn head ones in my party t kind O see to it for me, an he winked an sed, Leave it t me- So l reckon tn tickets all right. l got con idence in him coz he knows tn can dates better'n what I do, an don't need t go t tn corcuses."
 Suppose you find that some of the candidates are men in whom you have no confidence" said Chairman Rhoades. "Or suppose the opposition ticket has men on it whom you think would make better officials; wouldn't you scratch your ticket"
 "What! Me scratch my ticket! never