Connecticut western news., 1916-03-30
The Wurra Wurra Club

"With malice toward all and charity for none, hereby declare the meeting open for the transaction of such busi- ness as may regularly come before it, under the usual diabolical restric. tions, proclaimed the president, Judge Ford, whacking the pulpit with a shoe. hammer, when the clock stopped strik- ing 8, at just 2S minutes to 9. "The secretary will coil the roll" The secretary coiled the roll, which didn't prove anything in particular, except that the weather was too cold or some thing for many of the members to wander from their own firesides. The minutes of the previous meeting were read by MT. Representative John Graves, after which the Opening Ode was sung, a little off the key, by Seneca Strong, who doesn't pretend to be much of a singer, any how, but does the best he can, which is more than great many people can truthfuHy say about everything they do, or attempt to try to do, unless circumstances hap. pen to be such as to make it inadvisable to even attempt to conceal the manifest fact that they have a selfish interest in pretending to assume a virtue which they do not possess, although the con- trary may sometimes be the case as a result of conditions that tend to impart a different aspect to the situation; but even then it is just as we'll, if not bet ter, though not necessarily so, to let it alone. He was accompanied by Victor Coe on his cantilever switch. And that ended the preliminurIes, und His Honor took up the docket.
 The first case was that of Sam Camp. Sam jumped up and moved that the suggestion publicly made last week. Ghat the streets be cleared of the great heaps of snow which had been piling up all winter, by voluntary shovelers be endorsed by the Club, and offered to take hand at the shoveling, him. self. Landlord Fred Parmelee seconded the motion, which was unanimously carried, and committee consisting of Lew Rhoades, Al. Herriman, Donnie O'Neil and Adelbert Blass was ap- pointed to procure supply of shovels. Ed. Warner rose to inquire when this shovel brigade were supposed to begin the bombardment of the snow moun- tains, and Mir. Camp suggested the 4th of July as the date. Nobody rose to object, and that's the way the matter was left.
 "Speakin' about snow and hard win. ters," said the fat member, "I can re- member one winter when it was so cold that the smoke froze so solid in tn chimpeys that we had t git up on tn roof an shovel it out. An one day a book agent come t our front door an tried t. sell my father a book about tn early saints an martyrs. Dad chased him off tn stoop am cussed him like a good feller Wa'al sir, it was so cold that dads cuss words froze in tn air, an didn't thaw out till tn next day when tn minister called. The dominic rung tn door-bell, am jest as my mother was openin' tn door t let him in, tn sun thawed things up en' lib- rated them swesr-words of dads an they shocked an mortified tn minister so he groaned an run out O tn yard, an never called t our house after that
 Dr. Ross got up and said the fat members memory was something won- derful to reach back so far, as he had heard his own great-grandfather tell those same cold.weather incidents when he was boy, and the old gentle man had told him they were originally told by one of the first settlers in the Adirondacks and handed down from generation to generation.
 Gentleman" said Chairman Ford, "there is no business before the house. What is your pleasure ?''
 "I hain't got no pleasure, replied the fat member "I'm goin' home."
 his example was followed by the others, and that ended the meeting.