Connecticut western news., 1915-08-26
The Wurra Wupra Club

X Promptly On the stroke of S:o7 the meeting was called to order by the president, MT. O. T. yssbrrgh, who was unable te0 be presen5 owing to a yestry meeting so his place was filled by our populan druggist (The pub. licity scribe of the Club seems to have neglected to state which popular drug gist presided, and as it is none of our business to butt in, Dempssy sy' and Far mum may fight it out for themselves. - Ed41 Fred Collin was instructed to collect the fines, dues and assessments, but after looking the crowd over, he declined to tackle the job,- hence the fines, dues and assessments didn't get collected. O. H Badgley was informed that it was up tS him to read the min utes>Of the previous meeting, but he seemed to misunderstood his orders, and got up and started tD sung the Opening Ode. The chair tried to stop him in the mi6dle of the first stanza. but Badgley sa5d he hedn't practised on tee minutes-of the meeting, but had the Opening Ode down fine, and in. sisted on finishing it, which he did. At the close he was encored, and kindly obliged by singing the firss,stanza of We're Here Because We're. Here Be. cause We're Hese Because, - and kept it up until Harry Waller threw n cig- arctic at him aud hit himisn the eye; thenhe stopped Nobody would keep on singing with a cigarette in his eye. and you couldn't blame him. The preLiminaries were finally disposed of, and the meeting proceedsd to other things.
 John Bianclai got up anda inquired if it would not be in order for the Club to inyestigate the report that one of its members, Constable George Triesch- mann, had fractured one of the sacred and popular automobile ,hws, Monday morning, when the "billy cop" was discovered living flat in the street, cor ner of Main and Railroad, by standing over it, in, the presence of crowd of onlookers, and pronouneing this eu- legy:
 Here lies the body of Cop, the bun,A When he was alive he loved his rum. Now he's. lead and gone, to-well, To give his tank resting g--spell.
 The chair said it as, not apparent. to his mind, that there was any infraction, Of the jaw that called for action on the part of the Club, bun he would request the Clab's counsel, Justice Ford, to renden an opinion an the matter.
 Jusaice Ford stood up and opened a, copy of the Statutes, cleared his throat and prepared to read from it, but the chais interrupted to state that the. opinion would he. in ample time next week, and called for the next case.
 Horace Humphrey moved that three, cheers be given for George O. Rect, ian appreciation of his progressivaness- i'm laid in front of his residence oa Granias Avenue. They were given.
 Joe Parsons rose to inquine if the committee appointed long ago to, ar range for g. proper celebration of the completion ot the Camp Ross bridge on Main street had ever presented report. Watson Hardenbergh got mp and stated that he had an indistinch recollection of being appointed chairman of such a committee yesrs ago, when he was a young man, but to the best of his knowledge and belief be was not responsible, as he was under ape at the time and could not be legally held to a strict accountability. So far as he could remember, the celebration was held ,. or it wasn't held, he couldn't ten which; but it was one or the other, any way. If it was not held, he said, there was no reason why it couldn't be held at any time in the future, as the bridge is still standing.
 Dr. Ross moved that the committee be discharged and the bridge continued, and it was so voted.
 Vic. Coe got up. "Mr. President" said he, speaking about the com. munity Christmas tree for Christmas week"
 "I move we aIjourn,n said Con. Hitchcock. And the motion went through with bells on, and the crowd went home.