The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1913-11-21
DOYLE REPLIES
TO HIS CRITICS
INSISTS CONCRETE PAVEMENT
IS BEST
[set Question Continues Principal Topic
of scussion.-Promises Figures
Next Week

The entire village Is discussing
pavement. The interviews recently
printed in the Messenger have re-
vived the old subject and 1t begins
to look as If there would be some
sort of improvement made in Vienna
street this spring.
The condition of Main street this
week has helped the discussion
along. Some of the people seem to
favor gravel and others concrete,
but all are apparently unanimous
that something should be done.
In an interview this week M. c.
Doyle, who opened the matter up two
weeks ago, replies to the interviews
of H. F. Bodine and Frank Rocka'
fellow published week since. Mr..
Doyle makes a general statement, ex-
plains some of the points raised by
his critics and promises figures on
various types of pavements for next
Week ISSUE VI Luc pdpSIs
Mr.. Doyle writes this week as
6ollows:
"The eloquent remarks of my
brother taxpayers in last weeks
issue of the Messenger regarding the
paving proposition would naturally
elicit reply from the one at whom
ALn artinlaS mara diraotod nar-
son would think on reading Mr..
Bodine's article that he had exhaust
ed the subject, but, like a great
many people, he quotes the passages
which answers his purpose and
leaves the others unsaid
'I am not a member of the Viii
lage Council, yet I think that the
thrust at that body for actions done
in the past was very unwarranted.
Even in the Village of Clio 1t Is nec-
essary to have some laws and II these
laws are transgressed, would any
citizen Smong us be willing to stand
hdS let the transgressor defy the
when others are living up to it?
county, state and nation have
8 which everyone ought to obey
Nd every day public money is used
TO prosecute disobedience OF these
laws Is it not night that our vii
iage should force obedience to her
laws? The cases which Mr.. Bodine
mentioned in this letter cost the viii
iage not in excess of two hundred
dollars. If he has a scheme where
by this amount would pave our
street with gold like Heaven" l
think that we ought to hold up our
hands and give him full sway so that
he can put his scheme into operation.
''It was not my intention to in
sinuate that there was anyone In
Clio who was not in favor Of getting
out of the mud, but did mean that
I was not in favor of gravelling
Vienna street. The petition men
toned was circulated and signatures
secured from taxpayers, and others,
who were given to understand that
the cost of gravelling and building
cement cutters would be about $3,-
100000. Now, If there was any mis-
representation done in this matter,
right here is where it was. A very
conservative estimate of doing the
work proposed in this petition was
made for the Village Clerk and it
figured over $5,9O0.00. The Clerk,
also, had contractor figure on the
job and his figures on Vienna Street,
only, less a strip nine feet wide in
the center, which they expected the
township to do, was $5,300.00. If
Mr.. Rockafellow or Mr.. Bodine can
show any way of doing this job for
$3,000.00. for one am willing
to have it done, but am not willing
to pay nearly as much for this gravel
job with its perpetual cost of oil
ing, sprinkling, ETC., to job that
would make city street in our viii
Sge and would last for generations.
kat the gravel that we have on
DIR bets now. How much better
have hey been for the last two.
weeks than the mud on Vienna
street?
'''In regard to a misrepresentation
in the cost of the paving we should
have had last Spring, will say that
this is the very first time that l
have heard that question mentioned.
1t was talked of openly in the meet
ings of the Council and outside to
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