Connecticut western news., 1915-07-15
The Wurra Wurra Club

It rained. Not one Of your little puSillanimous cent and .a-half drizzles with the sun playing peek. boo through it. but a. downpour of solid water that soaked things goot and plenty. That's why the attendance was small. How ever, tiiere were enough members pres. ent to do business, and the1e was no delay in getting down to work. The president, MT. o. T. VoSbuTgh, was. unable to be present. owing to the fact that the owner of his umbrella had called for it, and the meeting was called to- order by Ex-Mayor Gene Rowe. The minutes were. read by Tommy McClelland. in blank verse, and the Opening Ode was sung. by Al. !. .Hugins, accompanied by Slats Lathrup on his movie jack. lantern. Then the meeting was declared ready for what. ever might develop.
 Henry Scutt offered motion that the Club organize tournament, similar to the one pulled of by the tiremen, which had proved such fine success. and offer prizes to the winners, with a, silver cupsfor the best decorated house.
 "What particular accomplishments would the members of this Club. com pete in: :" asked MT. Holsnpple.
 Whatever they can do best," re- piled ScutSl That started discussion concerning the individual accomaIish- ments of the members. which seemed to lead to. nowhere, aud threatened to wind up in a general row. Finally the fat member got up and suggested that the proposed tournament consistof a. series of mumblety-peg games and Scutt withdrew his motion.
 Cat DeHart got up. "Mr, Presi- dent," said he, "seeing that, the fire men made almost $500 on the tournu- ment, I,move that they blow it. in on n. banquet 5o their friends" The motion was promptly seconded by Dan Sweeney A. H. Herriman and Mir. Farnum. Judge. Ford spoke in favor of, the motion. Naturally the posses sion of so much money involves the. necessitE of devising some means of getting rid of it" said he. "The most preplaying problem with which the. Hose Company has to deal is,the. ques- tIon os what to do with all it's. money, and that conundrum keeps,the finance comlai btse guessing. l, understand thaF have been considering the sug- gestion that they pile this money up in heap. on the Town Hall. hill, some. Saturday night, and make A. bonfire. of it, with music by the band. It has been suggested also that they send it to, the suffering Belgians. Still another suggestion is that the funds be invested in. hymn books for the Hottentots, | like the banquet idea better, and hope the motion will pass. ["
 It did. It passed unanimously, bN a vote of l53 to ST, and on motion 0f Fred Collin a commi ttee of three, con. rsisting of Messrs. DeHart, HeuTinlan and Farnum, was appointed to. nosify the Hose Company. Subsequently, the members of this committee got together and decided that they womb send their notification by mail.
 Constable Rhoades. got up and moved that committees be appointed to con- fer with joint committee of the var ious churches With regard to the matter of having all out door ''community Christmas tree" on the Town Hall green, next Christmas. Said he: "This subject of a community Christmas tree has been brought up in an informal and perfunctory sort of way, in this Club, number of times ill the last two years, and while nobody has offered any objections to the proposition, nos body has taken any definite action on it.. The community Christmas tree is an institution in some of the neighbor- ing towns, and i'll all the larger cities, and has proved popular and attractive feature of the Christmas season. There is no reason at all why it could not be made to work just as successfully in Canaan, and doubtless the people of the various churches would cheerfully cooperate to bring it about if the mat ter is properly presented to them. Ger tainly the church people ought to be able to work together for such an ob- ject if the people of the whole con- munity can work together in booming firemen's tournament to success; and it is none too early now to start the ball rolling" The motion was seconded by Frank Hitchcock, and passed with whoop, without a dissent ing voice.
 As there was a great deal of other important business to be transacted, the meeting adjourned.
 Mudge-'Your wife certainly has l will of her own p