Connecticut western news., 1913-05-29
The Wurra Wurra Club.

when the clock struck the hour for
 opening the meeting, the sexton, Mir. S.
 Burgundy Strong, rose up in his place
 and calmly announced that the striking
 of the clock didn't mean anything, as it
 was ten minutes slow, or ten minutes
 fast, he didn't know which; but 1t didn't
 make any difference, anyway, as the
 president, MT. Daniel O'Connell
 Sweeney, wouldn't arrive for half an
 hour yet, as he had an engagement with
 Lew Rhoades, catching some fishes up
 in North Norfolk, and couldn't get home
 any earlier. Mir. Eugene T. Rowe,
 former mayor, got up and proposed "that
 we proceed to elect chairman pro tenn
 and get to business" Mir. Strong said
 he couldn't allow that as President
 Sweeney would be around by and by,
 and take charge of the meeting. So Mir.
 Rowe proceeded to throw Mir. Strong forcibly out of the room, and after re- adjusting his necktie and batting his hair down, he nominated Mir. F. Amiabe
 Baker, the landlord, as chairman pro tenn. Mir. Baker was elected unanimously and mounting the throne commanded the meeting to come to order and listen to the reading of the minutes by the secretary, Mir. Ed. Warner. Nobody responded, and finally after an awkward pause, Joe Parsons got up and informed the chair that Mir. Warner was out of town enjoying one of his numerous sum- mer vacations, with Mrs. Warner-this time with relatives up in Massachusetts -and wouldn't get back in time to read the minutes. The chair then requested Sam Camp to read the minutes. Sam said he didn't have any minutes to read, and the few minutes he had to spare he would rather devote to singing, as that was his strongest weakness. So he sang the first fifteen stanzas of John Gilpin's Ride, omiting if you please the sixteenth stanza and all the stanzas following. MT. June Rhoades, the chorister, got up to sing the Opening Ode, but Chairman Baker, who has no ears for music, motioned for him to sit down, saying that in the opinion of the chair too much singing was a great plenty. Then he called for business under the regular order. .. #
 The committee on moral character re- ported the nomination of Rev. l.. E., Travis, the new Methodist minister, favorably, and he was unanimously elected to membership and committee consisting of Rev. E. C. Gillette, Rev. ]. P. Smyth and Rev. Father Lynch ap- pointed to present him with the member ship badge of the Club.
 Ozzie Vosburgh, the Clubs representa- tive on the Fourth of July committee was asked to submit a report of the line of march for the parade-if there is go- ing to be a parade-for the information of the Club, which will march in body, in the civic division. Mir. Vosburgh said he had mapped out draft of the parade as he should suggest it to the committee, which was as follows:
 cline forms in hollow square at the of Church and Elm streets, with the right resting on Bragg. At the fir ing of the sunset gun, at 10 a. m., parade starts over the following route:
 "Down Reed street to Railroad street, up the under-mountain road to Cudney Terrace, down Granite avenue to Pease's crossing; up the Clayton turnpike to the Camp-Ros bridge, down West Main street to the corner of Frank Hitchcock's and the postoffice, countermarch from Bennett's Hill to the gravel pit and dis. band at the sash and blind shop"
 The fat member got up and said he had tried to follow the line of march, in his minds eye, as it was read, but he was afraid he hadn't quite grasped all the turns of the line correctly, and said he would like to be so kind as to ask Mir. Vos- burgh to read it over again for his bene- fit. Vosburgh said he would be delighted and started to read again, thusly:
 "Parade starts the night before, at the sound of the gravel in the east, leaving Pine Grove Camp Ground at the close of the morning service, stopping at the Naples and countermarching against the wind until the fog lifts; then forward to-"
 "That'll do," said the fat member, in- "That's th' way I under stood it tn fust time, but somehow can't seem t git it straight in my mind. There's suthin' tn matter with my head. | I've felt it comin' on fir week. guess I1l go hum." And he went.
 The chair then solemnly asked if there was any further business. There wasn't. So the meeting adjourned.