Connecticut western news., 1914-06-04
The Wurra Wurra Club

The sun was setting beyond the west ern hills. The horizon was bathed in golden glory. Pointed shafts of silvery light radiated from the spot where the King of Day had sunk from view, and formed a horseshoe of effulgent glory ] that glimmered from the zenith to the far off north and the distant south and set the heavens ablaze with shimmer-
 ing sheen of transcendant glory-Oh, piffle that makes too blamed many | glories for one mess. But what can you do? At this season of the year he
 is poor stick who isn't impressed by the sheeny shimmer as he watches the day go, but he's got to be mighty cautious about how he rhapsodizes over the sheenies and daygoes, or he'll be apt to put his foot into it. Twas ever thus, from the time somebody gave false alarm about balm famine in Gilead. It ought not to be so, but who is to blame? Who is at fault? Whose blame fault is it? An, there's the rub There's the whole thing in clamshell
 This naturally brings us straight back to the original proposition. The sun was setting beyond the western hills. Let it set there. Never try to break up a setting sun. It might leave its nest,
 and then there would be no more stars
 matched out. There's no celestial in- cubaker on the market-but we digress.
 That's one thing about us that we don't | like, this digressing business; but some-
 how we just can't seem to get over it.
 The sun was setting beyond the vest | lafs cff 1xyf fg, show that it was about time for the never-failing sexton, MT. s. Bismarck Strong, to light up the Club-room for
 the regular meeting And sure enough,
 he had it lit. When the members ar- rived and took their respective seats and sexton apologized for the absence of the president, MT. J. Clinton Rora- back, (who is now serving his second term as mayor and appointed W. A. Wright temporary chairman. MT. Wright called the meeting to order and asked the soloist, MT. George Harden bergh, to stand up and omit the Open ing Ode; but Hardenbergh remained in his seat and sang it at the top of his voice, (which is naturally high, ac- companied by Al. Hugins on his black smith bellows. The minutes were then read by some fellow with kink in his palate, who came in by mistake, with Fred Parmelee, and who made ridic- ulous mess of it. That ended the opening part, and the regular order of business was then called for.
 Chairman Holsapple, of the commit tee on moral character, reported favor AF A for membership, and that gentleman was unanimously elected, and ex-Mayor Rowe appointed committee to escort him into the Club-room.
 Rob. Peirce then nominated MT. Cam, the partner of MT. Creevey, for membership. Henry Ives suggested that the club wait to find out how Creevey was going to pan out as a member, before taking in his partner. "What shall we do with Cann's nomi- nation in the meantime?" asked MT. Peirce. "We'll simply can it, " replied Ives. But we can't can Cam, can we, unless some more plausible reason is given?" persisted Peirce. The chair ruled that the nomination would take the regular course, and it went to the moral character committee.
 Dr. Adam got up and said he had noticed that Col. Roosevelt had started another Club that promised to become as popular as his Ananias Club-the Waste Basket Club-to which member ship is open to those statesmen who had | written letters to Roosevelt, which had | been filled in the waste basket" pr. | Adam moved that the committee on amalgamation be instructed to establish | fraternal relations with the new club, | with a view to merging if thought ad- | visable. Judge Whittlesey thought it | 'would be more to the point if the | Wurra Wurra Club were to amalgamate the old re-lie-able Ananias Club. He was overruled, however, and the orig inal motion prevailed.
 June Rhoades moved that c. s. Mel len be dropped from the roll. "On what ground?' asked Howard Slats. Not on the ground at all, b'Judasp' replied Rhoades. "On the cement sidewalk. He throwed it into both the living and the dead, and we ought to drop him.. The motion was second ed by Cat DeHart, and was unanimously carried. The chair ordered the secre- tary, MT. Freeman Dempsey, to cross off MT. Mellen's name, and Dempsey looked through his book and reported that he couldn't do it, as Mellen never was member of the Club. Well, then, said Rhoades, "I move that we elect him a member and then drop him. The motion was declared out of order, whereupon half-dozen mem bers jumped up and began to talk, all at once, and in order to head off riot the chair ordered the sexton to blow out the lights, and declared the meeting adjourned. |