Connecticut western news., 1912-07-18
The Wurra Wurra Club

at the last meeting, the attendance being about what you might expect, or perhaps little more or less, owing to the heat. Otherwise it was hardly noticeable, ex- cept perhaps, by comparison. That be- ing the case, MT. Allyn Fuller, as proxy for the acting president, Selectman Reel, who was unavoidably detained by an un- expected visit from Highway Conmis- sioner Macdonald in his automobile, Betsy" for a conference on stranded oil called the meeting to order and an nounced:
 lowing to the warmth of the heat the Opening Ode will be dispensed with this evening"" whereupon Horace Humphrey jumped up and sang 1t all the way through, in his thunderous bass voice, before he could be headed off.
 "Any way" said Chairman Fuller, "the secretary will omit the reading of the minutes of the last meeting" and up popped Secretary Wigglesworth and read the minutes so fast that his teeth got hot and one gold filling melted and ran out and down his chin.
 "If the chair has any influence with this assemblage," said the chair, tive will now proceed to do business. Does any body present wish to air any grievance" |"
 Deputy Sheriff Rhoades said he would like to announce that among the services for the week, the Sasf'rilly Club would hold the third lemonade guzzle of the season, in the Pallum Room of his bar Der shop, on Thursday ahfternoon of the coming week, at hahlf pahst three o'clock. Mir. O'Neil and Mir. Herriman will pour. Others who will be in the re- ceiving line will. be announced on piece of wrapping paper stuck up in the postoffice.
 Al. Briggs got up and moved "that the chair appoint somebody to follow the oil wagon around when the next batch is poured on the streets, and scatter asa fetida or Limburger cheese on it, to kill the smell. Abe Coons seconded the mo- ton, and it passed unanimously. The committee will be announced by mega phone from the steps of the Garfield Monday evening.
 Mayor Rowe got up and moved that the committee on mathematical iurispru- dence be instructed to arrange for lawn fete, on the Club house grounds, at an early date, in honor of Sam. Camp, who recently "took unto himself" Mayor Rowe said: "Every body's doin' it. This popular young man, one of the charter members of the Club, and his chara.ing bride, have been accorded receptions, showers and parties galore, since their return from their bridal tour, as a means of showing them how much they are thought of, and this Club cannot afford to disregard the good example" The committee was so instructed, and the date will be announced later.
 The fat member got up. "I was asked the other day." said he, ito contribute q dollar to'rds tn purchase of a silver p'rade trumpet fir tn foreman of tn Hose Company. Now l ben a'thinkin' since then, that jest like as not tn fore man won't know how t play on it when he gifts it, He don't blong t tn band. Am it struck me that mebbe we orto start another prescription paper, t git few more p'rade trumpets, so tn firemen can have an ortchestry ofm, an let'm practice together. I'd be wilin' t chip in another dollar to'rds gittin'm, fir I want t see our fremen hold their end up when they go way t walk in tn middle O tn road with their competitors from other cities"
 Foreman Wigglesworth promptly rose and informed the fat member that he knew we'll enough how to play on a pa rade trumpet, and that a parade trumpet orchestra would be entirely too much of an innovation. Incidentally, he said, "The company will soon be equipped with a uniform, and then they will be in shape to reflect credit, if not glory, on the town"
 The chair asked for further business, and Horace Holt moved that the Club place on record an expression of the pub lie spirit of those residents on Granite Avenue who have greatly improved both their own premises and the thoroughfare itself, by constructing sidewalks and pri- vate walks there. It was so voted.
 Judge Ford moved for the appoint ment of committee to negotiate with the Canaan Citizens Band for series of open-air concerts at stated intervals dur ing the balance of the season. The mo- tion passed, and Mir. Ford was appointed a committee to see about it.
 The meeting then adjourned.