Connecticut western news., 1914-04-09
The Wurra WuPra Club

MT. ,. Bride-dodger Strong, the effi- cient sexton of the CluL, looked the crowd over critically, raised the gavel aloft and held it poised high above his head for the space of moment-or per- haps moment and a quarter, or therea- bouts-then brought it down with a re- sounding whack, upon the table. Un- fortunately he wasn't looking where he was hitting. and instead of striking the surface of the table he smashed the ink bottle into smithereens and flooded the smithereens with ink. Well, I de- clareW said he, snatchiug his handker- chief from his coat-tail pocket and said he, (only he didn't say it but once,) "I declarel That's the first time l ever done that trick before. Wasn't it not careless of mel" Having finished the stanching and the self-reproaches, he hit the table another whack on the spot where he missed it before, and proclaim ed the meeting open for the election of a temporary chairman pro tenn. to run the
 
 the president. Mir. William J. Reel, first selectman, who couldn't get away that night, owing to circumstances over which. Joe Parsons nominated Judge D. C. Whittlesey, and as there were no other nominations the Judge was elected. and took the chair and the ink-stained gavel.
 The Opening Ode was sung, after fashion, by N. Watson Hardenbergh, of the Canaan Lumber Co.,, the chair re- marking that presumably his voice had the requisite quality of "timbre." Jay Underwood read the minutes of the previous meeting, which was we'll done. Then Chairman Whittlesey said he was ready to listen to any complaint that might be coming.
 Fritz Oehlschlager said he would like to have a resolution or something passed about the mud in Railroad street, from Main street up. He said it was more like wood-road through a swamp than state road. and he thought somebody
 
 thing done some time.
 Judge Ford, who had brought his law library along, said he would like to read what the supreme court ruled, along that line, from Chapter CXXIV, Section 444, as found on page something-but before he could finish his preliminary statistics and get in a word of what the decision was all about, Mayor ]. Clinton Roraback bobbed up to remind His Honor that the decision in question had been over.ruled by justice of the peace down near the mouth of the Pomperaug Valley, in the case of Barley vs. Buck wheat, 4II44 Conn. p. a3.) Judge Ford sat down, and that incident was tightly closed.
 Dan Sweeney rose to inquire whose business it was to keep the territory around the railroad station looking att tractive and neat-particularly the vacant lots east, west and south of the depot. Frank Coons remarked that, judging from the manner in which those spots are keep looking attractive and neat, it must be the business of somebody in Kankakee to keep them so. The chair inquired if MT. Sweeney wished to make motion pertaining to the subject, but Mir. Sweeney made no response-and that became another closed incident.
 Allyn Fuller moved that the Club ap- point a committee to arrange for an auto mobile parade as feature of the public Fourth of July celebration, but the men, ton of the word celebration" brought the fat member to his feet in a jiffy. Said he: "I'm everlastin' down on any more Fourth O July celebrations. We had celebration three years ago, that cost ev'rybody a little suthin' an we made big fuss an got couple thous- and people from out O town t come in t see it fir nothin', an what did 1t amount to in tn long run2 Nothin' at all. O'course 1t was a big day fir Ca naan an made a lot O outsiders think we're some punkins, tn way tn streets was full O flags. an fancy fixed floats, an music, an all them sort O things. but what did we git out of it fir tn money an work 1t cost t git it upa It didn't make tn town grow none, an they wasn't contributor that ever got his money back, so fur as any good from tn adv'tisin' is concerned. I'm everlast- in down on another teetotal dunn cele- bration." The fat members argument being un- answerable, there was no answer, and the chair declared that inasmuch as