Connecticut western news., 1912-08-08
The Wurra Wurra Club.

! OIr Hardenbergh, the director of the CT ub's [ publicity bureau, having been unavoidaby ab- l sent from the last meeting of the Club the fol- ! lowing report is kindly furnished by Mir. Demp | sey.)
 There was just about the average sized crowd present-you know; two-thirds, or quarters, perhaps of the whole membership. It's hard to get very many more than that out, at this time of the year But that's doing pretty good. There was no president present, so pres ently Doc. Corwin presented the name of Sam Camp as chairman pro tenn, and when the meeting came to vote on the nomination Sam barely squeezed through by the skin of his teeth, and then he de- clined to serve unless somebody moved to make it unanimous. Ed. Warner made the motion, and on the second vote Sam's majority was cut down a trife, but he took the chair before the opposition could demand q vote by roll-call. Clint Roraback was requested to sing the | Opening Ode. He got up and said he wasn't much on the sing, but he would make a few remarks on the subject of the third party movement instead; then he ducked just in time to allow the chair mans gavel to go over his head and smash big patch of plaster off the wall. His subsequent remarks were entirely foreign to either the third party move ment or anything else. The minutes of the last meeting were read by a picked quartette, but didn't amount to much. Horace Humphrey started to make some kind of a motion about something concerning the last Fourth of July cele- bration in Canaan, but H. E. Lyles inter- rupted to say Canaan hadn't had her last Fourth of July celebration, not by a jug full, and that she would prove 1t on the next Fourth. As Horace declined to proceed there was no business before the meeting--it was right where it had started from.
 Charlie Pease stood up and asked If the Club had a committee on sewers. Chair man (pro temp Camp said he didn't know, but Mayor Rowe jumped up and asked what business it was of Pease's whether there was such a committee or noti Pease said he wanted to have both his boat-house and his house boat connected with the sewer, as a measure of health, safety and sanity.
 The chair ruled him out of order. But the discussion opened up the sewer pro- position and several members took hand in it. Station Agent Finney said he had read the result of the Fire Dis trict's investigation of the proposition to extend the sewer to Bragg street and above, and was interested to learn that the committee would render an unfayor- able report for the reason that the income would be only about $50 a year, and as it would cost in the neighborhood of $2,- GOO to extend the sewer, it wouldn't be profitable investment. "I was not aware" said Finney, "that sewers were built, anywhere, as an investment for profit. The reasoning would not sound well if few cases of cholera or typhoid fever were to break out in the unsewered sec ton as a result of no sewer"
 "That may all be-" said the fat mem Der, "but I'd a dunn sight druther have two thousand dollars than forty cases of cholera or typhoid fever"
 Donnie O'Neil said the matter was too important for serious consideration, ana moved that it be referred to the commit | tee on highways, but Burt Peirce pro- tested that it should be kept out of poli tics entirely, and on his motion it was re- ferred to the committee on reform.
 "Speaking about reform" said Ned Roberts, "I observe that the Bald-Head | Club have elected William Jennings | Bryan to membership, and I would like to be kind enough to ask the secretary if | Mr. Bryan is on our membership list"
 The secretary replied that MT. Bryan's name had been proposed by J. Henry Roraback a month ago, but was objected | to by Deputy Sheriff Rhoades and Dr. Camp, on the ground of his support of Schedule K, and his nomination had never been brought up for confirmation. If that's the case" said Mir. Roberts, "all | Pve got to say is, there's a cold winter ahead" Then he sat down in his chair.
 Jay Underwood offered a motion that the chair be empowered to organize a political marching club of some kind-he didn't think it would make much differ ence which party it was named after-in order to infuse a show of life into the 1 campaign, and have some parading with music and red fire and oratory, and so on. "Now that we've got a good band, and a tip-top fire company that will soon have a uniform to go with that new silver parade trumpet, we ought to give them [