The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1912-03-22
CLOS THIRST MAY
SOON Be QUENCHED
AkNCIL PROCEEDS TO
REPEAL "DRY" ORDINANCE.

Organized Wednesday Evening Az
ter Some Delay. Committees and
Officers Named by President
Hurd. Pool Room License Grant
ed to Willmarth and Geary.
Peaceful Proceedings.
The great question Is settled at
last and the village of Clio will
soon have a licensed booze empor..
ium.
After an attempt at organization.
which failed because no quorum
was present, the new council held
a meeting on Wednesday evening,
perfected its organization and got
down to business. All members
were present. Officers and conf
mittees for the ensuing term were
appointed:
II was found that the village did
not have enough money on hand to
carry it over until the taxes began
to come in, and that it was neces-
sary TO borrow, so the council voted
to borrow six hundred dollars.
three hundred for the general
fund and three hundred for the
highway fund.
y, There has been a rumor around
town that instead of there being a
balance in the treasury as the finan-
cial report showed, there were out
standing bills enough to eat up the
balance and leave deficit. We
have no figures for this as yet, but
the fact that the council found il
necessary to borrow six hundred
dollars right off the reel looks as il
there might be some truth in the ru-
NOR.
When the matter Of licensing an
irrigation plant came up, it was re-
ported that attorneys Guy w. Sell
by and Lee, of Lee & Parker, Of
Flint, had been consulted about the
matter and that botn on .hem had
advised that only majority vote
was required to repeal an ordi-
nance, and that the president had
the right to cast the deciding vote
in case of a tie.
A resolution was introduced
which instructed the ordinance
committee TO frame an ordinance
repeating ordinance No. ~ which
forbids the licensing of saloons in
Clio. The vote on this resolution
resulted in tie, and it was up to
President Hurd to use his little
breaker and break the tie. Before
casting his vote Mr. Hurd made a
few remarks. He said that the peo-
pie had endorsed the candidates of
the Peoples Party at the last cleo
fion and that they knew what the
candidates of that party stood for
and had shown by their votes what
they wanted.
He also said that what the people
wanted they should have and there
fore he cast his vote in favor Of the
resolution. This means that Clio
will soon have booze emporium,
and now the question arises Of who
cense. We believe that the coun-
Gil can grant two licenses if they so
will be the lucky man to gel the IL
desire but il is extremely doubtful
if they will grant more than one.
A license was granted to Will
marth and Geary to run the pool
room formerly conducted by II. w.
Patterson.
Some of our citizens thought that
there might be some exciting times
at the meeting but the exact oppo-
siste was the case. The dove Of
peace brooded undisturbed over the
council chamber, business was tran
sacted without a hitch, and every
thing ran "as smooth as a smelt."
The presidents appointments
were confirmed without any oppo-
sition, there was no quarreling over
committee appointments and, TAX
ing everything into consideration.
the first meeting Of the new village
council was huge success.
The following officers and COM
mittees were appointed:
Fire Committee: Chas. Barrone,
q. Conlee, r. Gillett.
Street committee: B. Conlee, c. w.
Taylor, Chas. Barrone.
Finance committee: n. Giliett, &.
w. Taylor, Bert Conice.
Ordinance committee: J. F. Gully,
c. w. Taylor, Vim. English.
Sanitary committee: Chas. Bar
rome, Ralph Gillett.
Board Of review: L. B. Fuller,
Fred w. Houehton.
Health officer: DR.. White.