The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1914-12-18
REVIEW OF CLIO
FOR CURRENT YEAR
LESLIE RUNNELLS MAKES INTER
EsTINC CONTRIBUTION
Details Growth in Many Ways and Says
Reputation of Town is just
Cause for Pride


article, which in brief and compre-
hensiye way outlines the growth of our
hustling village during the year that is
drawing to close:
Has the year 1914 meant anything to
rthe village of Clio, or in other words,
in striking trial balance of the growth
of the village industrially and in mag
nitude, for the annual village state
ment, does it show loss or gain? To
many of the Messenger readers. this
may be the initial Inauguration of this
most important question in their minds
and if this is the case, should be
given their careful consideration and
thought as it represents one of the
most successful years in the history of
the village.
A very conservative estimate has
been made of the growth of the village
during the year 1914 and the data and
statistics that have been secured may be
startling to many of the readers but
probably equally as inspiring. 1t has
been estimated that there has been
about $50, 900 expended this year in new
lildings in the village, about $4,000
for general improvements, $1,000 for
general repair work to houses, stores
and other buildings, and over $4,000
has been spent by the farmers in
Vienna and Thetford townships for new
barns, cow stables, houses and general
repair work. If the facts could definite
ly be learned, these estimates would
probably be raised considerable.
The following is the data of the viii
lagos growth:
The completion of the Clio Condensed
Milk Company's plant
The construction of the Vienna street
pavement.
The building of the Masonic Temple.
The establishment of better fire pro-
lection by means of an efficient water
main with adequate MIGRANTS.
: The construction of two sewer lines
leading from the Main street pavement
to Pine Pun creek.
The erection of ten fine new houses.
An addition to the M. P. church.
. improvements to the business and
residential parts of the village.
The following is the data on the viii
lagos losses:
= The destruction of the Basket factory
by fire.
The destruction of the Hotel Clio by
fire.
The removal of the Saginaw & Flint
Offices from the village.
Does the "gain" surpass the Gloss"
or is the Gloss" greater than the
"gain?" Here are few more things
to think over along with those already
mentioned. Our public schools are
filed to their capacity, showing an in
crease of about rs per cent. Does this
testify to an increase in population?
The receipts of the postoffice also show
substantial increase over the year
1918, which indicates that there is more
business being transacted in the village
than ever before besides indicating an
increase in population. There appear
to be no losses that would materially
offset or in any way alter these gains.
:, The village has not been alone in en-
joying all this prosperity. The farmers
too have reaped bount.ful harvest and
have constructed barns and cow stables
this year that are listed among the best
in the county. When farmers wagons
have to line up several rods in length
about the local elevator, it indicates
prosperity that words can not express
satisfactorily. Automobiles with farm
ers as pilots also speak for themselves.
There is still much to do before the
prophecy that was uttered by one of
the local business men at the banquet
here few years ago can be fully real
lied. Ii was then prophecied that Clio
would grow until it first Incorporated
the villages of Pine Run and Farrand-
vile, and then later it would add the
city of Flint as a suburb to the city of
Clio. The village certainly has made a
great effort toward that goal this year
and it is to be hoped that history will
repeat itself again next year. but how
ever, there are certain things that
must be guarded against in case that
history again repeats itself.
Fire has always been deadly foe to
the progress of the village. 1t has cost
the village considerable already but it
is now believed that necessary precau-
tons have been taken to prevent large
IRE losses in the future. Every build
ing that is standing within the village
limits is needed besides as many more
as can be built. The owners of the
new houses built this year are as fol-
lows: j. G. Chapel (2), Marshal E.
Smith, Thomas d. Brown, DR.. B. T.
Goodfellow, Charles G. Matzen, E. w.