Connecticut western news., 1913-03-06
The Wurra Wurra Club.

When the hour arrived for opening the meeting, the sexton of the Club, Mir. s. Benjamin Strong, marched up to the platform and announced that the presil dent, Mir. Burt Peirce, was unavoidably absent owing to previous engagement, but that he had left word to have his brother, Rob. Peirce, preside at the meet ing. Rob. had not arrived, at the open ing hour, so Sexton Strong said he'd run the meeting himself. And he did. He ordered the minutes of the previous meeting read in broken Dutch by Dan Sweeney. Dan made pretty poor job of it. and worked in lot of vaudeville stuff that he had heard in the firemen's minstrel show, which elicited great ap- plause. The Opening Ode was referred to the committee on roads and bridges.
 The roll-call showed that good many absentees were present, and they were ordered Suspended until their fines were paid.
 When the meeting was declared open under the head of "good of the order" Frank Baker moved that a medal be struck off in honor of Deputy Sheriff Rhoades, for his valor in arresting, single handed, the three Jews who were ab- sconding with 500 pairs of trousers and a horse and wagon belonging to Mir. Shankman, the Southfeld peddler and merchant.
 On motion of Jim Quinn the matter was referred to the committee on Rhoades and brooches.
 Mayor Roraback offered resolution full of fwhereases, ,resolveds, etc., extending to the Canaan Equal Franchise League the felicitations of the Club on the ten-strike achievement in securing Dr. Anna Shaw to lecture in the Town Hall, last Friday evening; pledgng the sup port of the organization in their efforts to persuade the legislature to pass the woman suffrage constitutional amend ment, and volunteering the services of the Club to convince Representative w. ]. Reel of his duty in the matter"
 "Mister President" said the fat mem- Der, lifting himself out of his chair. "I'd like t offer a 'mendment t that res'lu- tion"
 "The gentleman will state his amend ment," said the sexton.
 My 'mendment is that we don't reso- loot nothin' of tn kind" said the fat mem Der, as he lowered himself gently into his seat.
 This started hot discussion, in the course of which some things were said which melted the lead in the recording scribe's pencil as he attempted to write them down, and it began to look as If ink stands, letter files and cuspidors would be hurtling through the super-heated air, when Deputy Sheriff Rhoades jumped up and shouted that he would declare the house pinched If 1t went any farther. At this point Horace Humphrey, who was about to throw loaded spittoon at the chairman, dropped it on ex-Mayor Rowe's left foot, and started another riot in the southeast corner of the room, which was finally quelled by the sheriff, assisted by Fred Collin and John s. Reed. MT. Holsapple then moved the previous question.
 "The previous question has already been disposed of" said the chair.
 Holsapple smiled, took copy of Cush- ing's Manual out of his inside pocket and proceeded to enlighten the chair as to the identity, habits and distinguishing char acteristics of previous question. "As president of the Business Mems Associa- ton, come pretty near knowing thing or two about previous questions" said he.
 The chair saw the point and said he'd like to have somebody nominate Mir Cushing as an honorary member of the Club. The previous question was finally ordered, and Mayor Roraback's reso- lution was adopted by rising vote, a6T to 25o.
 Sam Camp got up and said he would like to make a few remarks about the abominable condition of the streets and crosswalks, during the muddy spell, and suggest that the selectmen's attention be called to the matter, with petition for few hours work on the part of the towns team and man-but on second thought he had decided to let the subject pass and say nothing at all about it at this time.
 Ralph Farnum moved to adjourn and it was so voted, unanimously.