Connecticut western news., 1914-03-19
The Wurra Wurra Club

The night was beautiful and calm. The moon shone with a genial effulgence and shed radiance of good cheer. It
 was full-full as a tick. The stars blinked and sparkled and twinkled and danced in the dark, deep blue of the Armament, as if they too, had been hay ing little suthin' and didn't intend to go home till morning. The crisp, frosty atmosphere was laden with a crispy frosting that made the blood jingle and the pulse beat high. It was just such a night as you would naturally suppose. lust then-now mark what happened ! A solitary horseman might have been seen, without any horse, and not even a saddle, building fire in the Club-room and lighting up for the evenings per formance. Keeping his face in the shadow he goes silently from light to light till every light is lit. Then, and not till then, he stops lighting them, and calmly blows out his match. Who is this mana Whu is he, that comes with such-but pshawl the reader has long since anticipated the revelation, and made up his mind, for her mind, as the case may bel that it will turn out that he is none other than Mir. s. Beioyful Strong, the sedate and melancholy sexton of the Club. And sure as you're born, that's just who it is. Hardly had he lit the lights when all the members came trooping in and took their seats. "You will come to order," proclaims the sedate and melancholy sexton, "and in the unavoidable absence of the presi- dent, MT. Junius E. Rhoades. who is at home breaking Tn a new c fiddle-string, I'll run the meeting" Whereupon President Rhoades stepped forward and proceeded to run it, himself.
 The Opening Ode was sung by Mayor J. Clinton Roraback, in a deep, dark falsetto, to an Ashley Falls tune, and Judge Whittlesey read the minutes of the previous meeting, without notes.
 The chair then called for business. and Con Hitchcock said he supposed it would be in order to pass some sort of resolu- tions on the eclipse of the moon, which had been produced in the open air by the weather department.
 Selectman Reel got up and said there had been no license granted for any such performance in this town, and he, as head of the town government, would fC ack had been pulled off by authority of the Fire District without consulting the board of selectmen. The Mayor said he had issued no eclipse permits. but SUD- posed Justice Ford had authorized the show to go ahead, probably on the repre- sentation of some Massachusetts pro- moter that under the five days law it | was in the interest of public policy to l let nature take its course. Judge Ford | declined to commit himself at first, but | being pressed for an answer finally ad- | mtted that if he did he did, and if he | didn't he didn't; he was willing to take | his chances with the superior court, or even the supreme court, with whose | decisions he almost invariably agreed.
 MT. Holsapple moved that the matter be disposed of by putting the eclipse on the honorary membership list, and it was so voted.
 Ed Warner got up and said he would !! like to say a word about the condition of | some of the sidewalks about the village. | "It's all mans life is worth," he said, | to attempt to navigate the sidewalks in | front of the property of certain of our best residents. They haven't been cleared since the first blizzard, month | or so ago, and they are simply stretches of slippery, hubby ice-felds, with spots where the pedestrian breaks through | and goes into the water underneath, up | to his shoe-tops. It doesn't seem as if | civilized-to say nothing of Christian people, even If they can't be forced by law"
 "Mr. President" Judge Ford broke in, "Pve always noticed that when ever | attempt to talk about the sidewalk evil, | I'm called to order and made to shut up. | Now demand that the muzzle be ap- piled impartially."
 But by that time MT. Warner had | resumed his seat and no action was | necessary. To prevent further out break, however, the chair declared the m eeting adjourned.
 There are times when we must all Al