Connecticut western news., 1914-07-30
The Wurra Wurra Club

It was a night made for dreams of love and rapture. The air was freighted with the perfume of new mown honeysuckles and hay. The moon was full-full as a tick-and looked like bran-new pie plate hung up on nothing in the sky. The shrill and weary squeal of the overyorked dummy engine at the railroad coal dump was punctuated anon with that eternal dispute of the katydids, con- corning the everlasting problem of whether Katy did or Katy didn't-a problem, be it said, that has given rise to a nocturnal controversy which has entirely lost sight of Katy's original offense, (if it was an offense, and assumed the aspect of test of endur- ance that will never be satisfactorily settled until the last cricket has sawed his last leg off. Whatever the thing may have been that Katy is alleged to have did, so far as we have been able to ascertain, Katy never owned up; nor did she ever deny 1t. Was she ashamed of it? Or was. she shielding the other party? Ahl thero's tho rub. How often it happens that the instinct of self preservation is submerged in the desire to make it appear that the interests of those whom we esteem, or in other words, the invisible chord. Consequently MT. S. B'jingo Strong, the ever popular sexton, extended welcome to the members us they gathered and opened the meeting with the announce l sl Orben, would not be present, us he had a hen on, that was expecting to hatch sometime before morning. and he had to be there to count the chicks.
 MT. John Bianchi volunteered to run the meeting and was unanimously elected temporary chairman pro tenn. He first ordered Al. Herriman to sing the Opening Ode, which he did, (as we'll as he could, accompanied by High way Commissioner Tom Butler on his road scraper. MT. J. O. Roraback, (who is now acceptably serving his second term as mayor,) then read the minutes of the previous meeting, and the chair declared the meeting ready for any kind of trouble that might break out.
 Ex-Mayor Rowe got up and made a motion that committee be appointed to see President Holsapple before the proposed Business Mems Outing, and merge the W. W. Clubs summer picnic with it. The motion was seconded by MT. John B. Reed, and unanimously carried. The chair appointed Mir. Reed, MT. Finney and MT. Roraback as such committee on conference.
 Dan Sweeney rose and was recognized by the chair. He said he had clipped an editorial paragraph from a recent issue of the New Haven Union, which he would like to read. It was as follows: "The subject soon to be debated by the local debating club and Editor John Rodemeyer's Wurra Wurra club of Canaan will be: Why can't bald-headed mon raise spinach?" Said MT, Sweeney; "Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen, It should by this time be well known that the Wurra Wurra Club is nobody's Wurra Wurra Club least of all does it belong to the party named i'll this paragraph, who is not even u member of tue organization and has never attended a single meeting It is true that Inc applied for member ship and was blackballed just after the Club was started, for reasons best known-"
 ''I make the point of order that the gentleman is out of order," exclaimed | Frank Hitchcock, interrupting.
 [We have taken the liberty to erase the balance of MT. Hitchcock s remarks ! in scornful reply to the above, as con tained in the scribe's official report of | the meeting, for purely personal reasons; principally because we decline to appear as bone of contention, and secondarily on the principle, Least said, soonest mended. "-Ed.
 The fat member h'isted himself up, as soon as the atmosphere cleared, and said: But what about tn spinach? Now I'm bald-headed, myself, an b. gosh, raise spinach. I've got a spinach patch as big as firm here t tn presidents desk, an"
 The chair rapped for order. "The gentleman labors under a misapprehen- sion" said he. "It is evident that the had no reference to vegeta- bles. Will somebody be kind enough to make a sensible motion?"
 "I will," said Ned Roberts. "I make motion that we adjourn. '" The motion was unanimously seconded by Judge Whittlesey, and carried with a whoop, and Seneca coughed hard and blew out his lights.