Connecticut western news., 1914-11-05
The Wurra Wurra Club

It was exactly eight o'clock at night. Of course the clock might have been a trifie fast. On the other hand, it might have been a trifie slow. We have no means of knowing. It wash t our clock, any way. If 1t had been our clock we would have been positive that when it struck eight it might have been any where from half-pa seven to quarter of nine. But even at that, it is safe to assume that it was somewhere near eight o'clock, that is, approximately. The term, approximately, is gem erally understood to mean thereabouts, or pretty close, or not great distance, such as "Distance1ends enchantment, " and by enchantment one may mean fairies, or magicians performing sleight. of-hand. or hypnotizing so you see things that are not there, better known as delirium tremens, or going crazy, whereby the mental intellect of the brain, or gray matter, which controls the nerves, otherwise known to doctors and undertakers, whose duty it is to do so.A In order to accomplish this, the president, Mir, Lewis O. Rhoades, who had already called the meeting to order, asked if he might be kind enough to re- quest Joe Allyn to read the minutes of the previous meeting, which Joe pro ceeded to do, winning great applause from the crowded galleries by his clever interpretation. The Opening Ode was then sung by Mir. E. A. Creevey, acc companied by Justice Ford on his re. election. The chair then ordered some body-he said he didn't care who, or whom, or what one-to make some kind of a motion.
 MT. Lester Adam got up and moved that the Club keep open house on cleo. tion night, and receive the returns, with sandwiches and cigars. The mo- tion was promptly opposed by MT. Henry Ives who argued that would it subject the Club to the intimation that there were cabaret girls there, and he would not stand for that, not for a minute. This led MT. Adam to twit on the fact that Ives had not protested very strongly against the cabaret girls at the Bald Head Clubs banquet in Winsted, and the controversy really began to wax so hot that the chair put stop to it and ucC1dTcu Jl6 WttOl6 DllSiu0bS Oub OL OTueT.
 MT. Lyles then moved that the Club suspend the rules and elect Mir Otto Vogt, the new baker, to membership. There was no objection, and MT. Vogt was elected.
 The fat member raised himself up and said he would like to make a mo- tion that seein' as how tn Club is jest exactly four year old this week, we git up some kind O. centennial celebration t. eel 'brate, with sasf'rilly am ham sanditches an cookies on buffit lunch, an some speakers an toastmasters an recitators am singin, and speech O reason an flow O sole leather, like g'lar biz'n mems banket jubilee. !" The idea was opposed by Dennie O'Neil, who said 1t would be too much fuss over nothing, and would simply subject the organization to ridtcule.
 The chair referred the motion to the committee on ridicule.
 Mayor Clint. Roraback offered a mo- tion that the chair appoint committee to secure the presence of the next gover- nor at the next smoker of the Club, but Justice Ford objected on the ground that it would be better to find out who the next governor was going to be. This started political discussion, which the chair suppressed by ordering the sexton to blow out the lights.