Connecticut western news., 1914-03-12
The Wurra Wurra Club


 when the eyer-smiling sexton of the Club, MT. s. Boozehater Strong, made his exit into the room from the main en- trance. Rowing like a dancing master to Mir. Tom Butler, the local highway commissioner, who was the only other member present excepting twenty-eight or twenty mine others who had come in before him, MT. Strong poked up the fire, blew the dust off the pulpit, put on his spectacles, looked the crowd over in silence for a few moments, then ari- nounced that the meeting would come to order and await the arrival of the presi- dent, MT. E. V. Nestell, who was visiting friends in New York and would not re- turn until next week. "In the mean time," said Mir. Strong, tive will proceed to business. Will somebody make a nomination for temporary chairman pro tenn" Mayor Roraback nominated ex- Mayor Rowe, Dr. Lee nominated Dr. Adam, and ex-Mayor Rowe nominated Mayor Roraback. "It looks very much like a contest" said Mir. Strong, "and as I'm a lover of peace and hater of con- tests, we will consider the candidates withdrawn and I'll run the meeting, my self. The secretary will roll the call"
 At this point all the candidates who had been nominated got up and demand ed recognition and the "regular order" but MT. Strong commanded the deputy sheriff, Mir. L. c. Rhoades, to restore the regular order, with a club if neces- sary, and the meeting proceeded. After the roll-call, which showed that there were a good many absentees present, the Opening Ode was sung by Horace Holt, to the tune of When This Old Hat Was New and Frank Coons read the minutes of the previous meeting.
 Motions, resolutions, petitions or any other proper business being called for, Mir. Joe Parsons got up and said he would like to move that committee be appointed to wait on the Business Mems Association committee on procuring new industries and request that a joint com mittee be chosen to find out what be- came of the woollen underwear concern that was apparently so anxious to locate in Canaan year or more ago. Judge Ford jumped up and said he would second the motion, as he was a member of that committee and never could get trace of the concern after he had can on ;t.l C. IaI,.,. who would be willing to accept positions in the factory. He said he had inter viewed more than a hundred ladies on the subject and secured the consent of nearly fifty.
 "Wa'al, don't see as you got any great kick comin', Jedge," said the fat member, putting in. "A feller that gifts a chanst t interview a hundred ladies ort t be satisfied, whether tn scheme busts up or not"
 The motion was carried, and the chair appointed Ed Warner, Jay Underwood and June Rhoades as committee of con- ference.
 pr. Ross moved that the Club send a resolution of greeting to President John ston, at the State Business Mems Asso- citation great banquet in Hartford, Tues day night, the resolution to be engrossed and delivered by the Canaan delegation. Mir. Farnum seconded the motion, and said doubtless the delivery ot such q resolution, from the Wurra Wurra Club would create a sensation at the big feast. The fat member got up to observe that they tort t' be leetle careful not t throw tn big banket into panic with too much of a splurge in presentin' tn greetin's O tn Club" The motion passed by small majority and the sec retary instructed to draw up the resolu- ton.
 John Bianchi moved that a committee be appointed to confer with the last off cers of the Canaan Assembly defunct, with a view to resurrecting the assem- plies after Lent. Dan Sweeney said he the Assemblies were dead beyond hope of resurrection. Mir. Oehlschlager said he thought it would be a good chance to test that pulmotor, at the electric light company's office, which is said to resuscitate the dead. even after the undertaken comes onto the job, but Sweeney insisted that the pulmotor would be powerless in the case of the Canaan assemblies, and the mat. ter was dropped.