Connecticut western news., 1913-06-19
The Wurra Wurra Club.

The warmth of the weather kept some of the members away from the last meet. ing, but there was a fair attendance when the time came to start proceedings, and at the appointed hour the sexton, Mir. Seneca Blossom Strong, got up and said it gave him great pleasure to announce that the president, Mir. Henry B. Ives, was present, and would start the ball rolling, in person. Mir. Ives then mount ed the throne and asked the sexton what to do next, but before the sexton could reply Fred Collin jumped up and began to read the minutes of the two previous meetings and Seneca couldn't stop him until he had finished the whole docu- ment.
 When Collin sat down Watson Har- denbergh got up and struck up the Open ing Ode in his loudest B-fat, and sue ceeded in finishing the tune before the chair succeeded in stopping him. "This meeting seems to think itself an automa- tic, self-starting, self-cocking and self running shooting-match,' said the chair. "Now propose to take hand in the running of this machine, as long as I'm in the chair. We will omit the reading of the minutes, and also cut out the Opening Ode"
 "You can't do 1t now, MT. President" said Sexton Strong. "They've already been executed"
 "But say they're omitted, and that settles it,' persisted the chair, beginning to get hot under the collar. "We will proceed to the consideration uf sensible business, if anybody has any such to come before the meeting"
 Judge Ford said he would like to ex- press his mind on the manner in which the oil had been poured onto the streets, but the chair brought him to order with sharp whack on the desk with the bowl of his ripe, and admonished him. "Let's thank our lucky stars we've got the oil" said the chair, "and be glad to welcome 1t, either in puddles or drizzles. It will hold down the dust; that's the main thing. Has any member a motion to maker"
 Sexton Strong, himself. rose gracefully to his little feet. "Mr. President" said he, putting a frog-in-your-throat in his throat. "I make motion that as mark of fraternal courtesy, this Club attend the annual meeting of the Litchfield County University Club, in a body, at Norfolk, next Friday evening. It seems to me we have disregarded too much the amenities of our fraternal relationships, and held too much aloof from that com mingling with our fellow"
 "Mr. President" said the fat member, putting in, "I hain't got no 'bjection t goin' up t Norfolk ag'in. I went up three nights runnin' couple weeks ago an tn more went, tn more I liked it. My wife sez I'd git tn Norfolk habit if tn concerts hadn't stopped when they did. Now all this talk about our bein' too exclusive don't bother me none. l don't b'leeve in gittin' too thick with other 'sociations, on gin'ral principles, but wouldn't hesitate a minute about goin' up t that University Club meetin', coz think District Attorney Whitman'll make good speech, an I'd like t hear what he's got t say about breakin' up tn card parties down t New York, an putin tn p'lice in their own jug. An I'd like t hear that Alfred Noise, tn poet. like potery-I used t write it, some, myself, when l was younger, an learned lot of it b. heart after I got it wrote. can repeat some of it now"
 "I move we adjourn?" shouted ex- Mayor Rowe, starting for the door.
 "We can't adjourn till my motion is seconded" protested MT. Strong. "A motion to adjourn is out of order"
 The chair thought Strong's point was we'll taken, but said he'd had enough hot air for one session, so he'd adjourn the meeting on his own hook, without regard to the motion. And that ended the ses- sion.