Connecticut western news., 1913-12-11
The Wurra Wurra Club

There was a very good attendance, considering everything, and at the open ing hour the president, Messrs. Cornish Hitchcock, who had not yet arrived, was still absent, so Mayor ]. C. Roraback was unanimously voted in as temporary chair man pro tenn. He was escorted to the chair by a committee consisting of Cornish Hitchcock, Sexton Strong and Judge Ford, and promptly rapped the crowd to order by banging the desk with his chubby little fist, and announced that all the preliminaries would be dispensed with and the meeting at once proceed to business.
 The fat member got up and made motion that the corresponding and pub licity secretary be extended a unanimous and cordial vote of censure for the man. ner in which the doings of the Club had been given to the newspaper during the last two weeks. "It looked jest as If he took advantage O tn temp'rariIy dim mor'lized conditions in tn newspaper ofice," said he, tan made them preacher editors b'lieve any old thing he wrote about tn Club'd got t be printed. F'rin- stance, ev'ry member knows want at tn meetin' at all, two weeks ago, an yit tn paper reported that sed hull lot O. stuff about tn bridegroom an his we'd din an how scairt he looked, an how nice th' bride looked, an how I'd ha' married her myself if I hadn't ben fool enough t got married long ago, an all them sort O things. Wa'al, when my wife read all that in tn paper, mebbe she didn't fly off tn handle, an couldn't make her b'heve didn't say it. Sez she: 1t sounds jest like ye, you old fat fool, an ye can't ram it down my throat that th' sec'tary misquoted ye.' I say it's a outrage"
 At this point the secretary, George Hardenbergh, got the floor and yehe- mently declared that the reports he had sent in to the paper had been garbled out of shape by somebody, and the reports as printed were ma de out of whole cloth "evidently by somebody in the editorial sanctum.' He looked hard, first at the Rev. E. C. Gillette, then at the Rev. l.. E. Travis, as he said this, and paused as if for reply.
 MT. Gillette rose deliberately to his feet. "Mr. President" said he, ito the best of my knowledge the reports of the Club meetings were printed exactly as written by the secretary, without the change of single, word. However, if they were tempered with, in the sanctum, the tamperIng must have been done by my Methodist editorial colleague, MT. Travis, while wasn't looking. could n't keep my eye on him every minute; I had all could tend to, putting moral tone into his local paragraphs and weld- ing together his split ininitives."
 MT. Travis jumped up. "Mr. Presi- dent, may be eligible for membership in the infinitiye splitters' union," saiv he, "but l wish to remind my Pilgrim co- ances had to be revised and edited by the printers devil. And as for tam pering with the reports of this Wurra Wurra Club, I'd as soon think of tamper- ing with the Episcopal marriage service. If the fat member didn't say what the paper says he said, he's got less good sense than I thought he had, the beggarp
 The chair asked the secretary if the gentlemen's explanations were satisfac tory. The secretary said he couldn't see that the explanations explained anything, but out of respect for the cloth, he would accept them.
 The fat member got up again. "One other matter, MT. President" said he. "They was a committee ap'pinted t Initiate th' editor into this Club, he bein' tn only man in Canaan that don't b'long to it. Pm ag'in' it. He's got a bad case O big head now, from all tn 'tention that's ben paid to him by his feller citi- gems an citizenesses. Take it durin' this weddin' bizness, f'rinstance: he got elegant easy chair firm tn Canaan Hose Company, fit fir king t set in; an .han'some new purse full O. han some new ten-dollar bills firm tn Bizness Men of tn town; an beautiful gift firm th' ladies of tn Eastern Star lodge, an scores O elegant presents firm individuals, with no end O congratulations and good wishes that's puffed him up so he don't even know enough t acknowledge that these 'tentions is all on his brides account. Now don't b'lieve in over doin' that sort O thing, am give notice, right now, that if his name is p'posed fir membership shall blackball him."
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