Connecticut western news., 1915-06-24
The Wurra Wurra Club

The thunder and lightning were laundering and Tightening when the hour arrived for opening the meeting, but there was good attendance of members nevertheless. The president, Mir. Judge David c. Whittlesey, called the meeting to order and remarked that he would like to be kind enough to ask the secretary, MT. Lawyer J. Clinton Roraback, 70 read the minutes of the other meeting. MT. Roraback said he had left the minutes at his home, Twin Lakes, but he would be pleased to read copy of MT. Judge Ford's decision in the last liquor case, instead, if that would be agreeable to the meeting. The fat member at this point moved to adjourn, but the chair ruled that mo- ton to adjourn must be debated, and as nobody seemed disposed to do any debating 'on the motion, it was ruled out of order and the reading of the minutes was dispensed with. The Opening Ode was then sung by MT. Representative John Graves, accom- panied by MT. Horace Holt on his rip saw. Then the chair called for any respectable business that was fit to come before the meeting.
 MT. Tax Collector John S. Reed moved that the committee on decoration to dress up the Club house tor the big Fifth of July firemen's day, be in- structed to report progress. The chair man of that committee, MT. Clarence Humphrey, got up and reported that plans were completed for the decora. tions, which included a heroic. sized portrait of the first selectma Il, Mir. w. J. Reel, to be suspended in front of the building, fanked on all sides by various sized flags, between which would be portraits of the various members of the Business Mems Association com mittee on new industries, Foreman Frank Whiting, Constable Rhoades, President Herriman, of the Cornpop and Sasf 'rilly Club; Mayor Roraback, Postmaster Roberts, Scoutmaster LaffaTgue, High way Commissioner Tom Butler and the clergy; the whole ensemble to be en- closed in an elaborate festoonery of pa triotic bunting. The fat member said ne thought eth Club house was goin' t be tn wust thing in town t scare hosses, on that day" and he suggested that the building be dressed in black instead. He said he saw the Bridge post postoffice, after Grant died, and it was fixed up in black to look real artistic" The chair asked if the fat member wished to make a motion to that effect, but the corpulent gentle man said he wouldn't make another motion until his previous motion, to adjourn, was acted on.
 Mir. Horace Humphrey moved that a committee be appointed to arrange tor the midsummer outing of the Club, and suggested either Savin Rock or Saratoga for the objective point He said they had merry-go rounds and shoot the chutes at each place, and he didn't much care which resort was de- cided upon. The motion was seconded by MT. ex-Mayor Eugene Rowe, and unanimously passed. The chair then appointed the mid. summer outing con- mittee, consisting of Messrs. Con. Hitchcock, H. H. Scutt, John Bianchi and Dr. Ross, with power to get place and fix the date and the price.
 A motion was offered by w. A. Wright that the Club go on record as favoring q sane Fourth. The fat mem- Der remarked, without hoisting himself up out of his seat, that "seein' as how tn Fourth comes on Sunday, he didn't think it'd be good jedgment t butt in am ask tn people t do very much diff f'rent firm what they gen rally done on Sunday" The motion languished for want of a seconder.
 Judge Ford took the floor. 'Mr. President, said he "you all know there is general movement on foot to en- courage the laying of new sidewalks. Now I would like to read a section from the Statutes bearing on this ques- tion, and in order that you all may un- derstand, will first explain"
 "I want t call my motion firm un- der tn table," said the fat member, putting in. "If I ricolleck it right, made a motion t adjourn"
 Twenty members seconded the mo- tion, and the meeting was adjourned before it could be put to vote.