Connecticut western news., 1914-12-24
The WurPa WurPa Club

It was several nights before the night before Christmas, and all through the house. Such night as you have seen before, especially those of you who started life as mere children. How we'll you remember those nights-so long, and so far apart as they approach ed the merry Christmas day; it seemed as if they would never get by. And from one Christmas to the next looked like a lifetime. But now, to those of you who have lived as many years as you are old, the Christmas days come hustling along so fast that before you can rally from one, you're face to face with another. Such is the joy of look ing backward, viz: Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight, T" that is, aviation, or balloons, such as up in a balloon, boys," or falling from great height with danger to life and limb, better known as hazard. or risk, an insurance term applied to premiums, that is to say, a paid up policy, to secure your family against want, sometimes called destitution for short, which is divided into three classes, as follows: "I want, you want, he wants; plural, it wants, she wants" and so on indefinitely and called gram. mar, or how to speak correct, and is confined to schools and co education, which is a matter of individual prefer. ence if the child can be induced to, when suddenly the president, Mir. N. Watson Hardenbergh, entered and de- clared the meeting open for business. He ordered NIT. Holsapple to read the minutes, after which George Mather sang the Opening Ode, accompanied by Al. Herriman on his piety. Motions, resolutions, petitions, or any old thing in the line of business were called for by the chair. and George Ford got up.
 "Gentlemen," said he, "I desire to offer an amendment.
 "An amendment to what ?" asked the chair.
 "An amendment to Frank Hitch. cocks motion" said Ford, firmly.
 "But neither Mir. Hitchcock nor any other member has made any motion, !" replied the chair.
 "That may all be-" persisted Ford, "but have every reason to believe he is going to make motion that all justices of the peace shall wear whisk- CTS. and want to amend that by strik- ing out the enacting clause. It's un- constitutional, and I can prove it by the Statutes"
 MT. Hitchcock got up and shouted: "I withdraw the motion didn't make, for the sake of harmony. And that closed the incident.
 MT. John B. Reed stood up and offered @ motion "that the chair ap- point committee of three to arrange for municipal Christmas tree on the green in front of the Town Hall"
 "It's too late now for anything of that kind" said Horace Humphrey.
 Its none too late and none too early to set the ball rolling for the Christmas of 19l5," replied MT. Reed. Canaan has got to come to it, and might just as we'll get into line before every other town in the state has made an old story of it." The motion was seconded by MT. Charles G. Smith, and unanimously carried, and the chair ap. pointed as municipal Christmas tree committee Messrs. Reed, Smith and Collin.
 The fat member suggested that "who- ever's goin' t be Santy Claus, t tn moocipal Christmas tree, better begin t' save up firm now on, fir it's goin' t' be hard scratchin' t. pr'vide tn ingredi- ences fir tn tree, even if they's a hull year t' do it in COZ ev'rybody's gittin' putty cluss-fisted, these days"
 Meeting adjourned.