The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1916-12-22

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daughter, Mrs. G. M. Obee, and fam
ily. The youngsters OF the Obee fam
lily are at present suffering from whoop-
ing cough, necessitating the cancella-
ton Of their usual holiday visit at the
home of their grandparents in Clio.
George Horace Lorimer, the editor,
was looking over batch of readers
letters. There were several hundred
letters of warm praise, then Mr.. Lori
mer came on letter of complaint. He
took up the letter of complaint with
sigh, "Churchy, if you ever see an
editor who pleases everybody there'll
be a glass plate over his face and
wreath of lilies on his stomach.
Commenting on the general disincli-
nation to rent houses to families con-
tanning children. well-known Clio
business man recently said: IL think
the practice is altogether wrong; it pre-
vents many desirable families from set
Ting in our town and places penalty
upon one of the most important attri-
butes of good citizenship. If l had the
means to do so l would build some de-
cent dwelling houses and rent them
only to families with children.
Incidental to the confusion following
the fire last week we did not print
enough copies of The Messenger to
reach all of our subscribers and, as a
consequence, many of them living in
more or less distant places, did not get
the story of the fire. For the benefit of
these we are printing the story over
again this week, for which repetition
we shall ask the indulgence of such of
our re aders as did receive the paper.
Elsewhere in this issue we print pic
ture of the fire showing the Office of
The Messenger as it was being des-
troyed.
We must repeat our apology of last
week and ask our readers to be as con-
derate as they can of the fact that
The Messenger may not be as good a
newspaper as usual. We have been
laboring under many difficulties incident
to misplaced and lost material, incon-
venient quarters, and the necessity of
having the paper printed out of town,
50 that it has been simply impossible
for US to make the paper as good as we
would like to have done. In short
time we expect to get organized. how
ever, and then will endeavor to do our
best by our friends and patrons, as we
always have done in the past.
Our good friend, Burr Barley,
thinking perhaps that all of the relics
of which the editor processes to be
fond had been destroyed in the fire,
brought us new one to be kind of
nest egg, as it were, for new start.
The antiquity is little treatise on the
Doctrine of Predestination Unto
Life" printed at Boston in 1904. The
book is printed on hand made paper and
the Typography is distinguished by the
long form of the letter s in common
use when it Was printed. The preface
to the little book consists of declara-
ton of five of the prominent men of
the church and was dated at Boston
'town," April Is, 1740.
A week or more ago an article ap-
peared in The Flint Journal to the eff
feet that people were being driven to
Flint to reside because of the high rent
ais prevailing in Clio. Our fellow
townsman, j. F. Wirth, took exception
to this statement and sent an article
refuting it to the paper before men,
toned wherein it was duly published
Mr.. Wirth's letter stated that the orig
inal article was not based on fact, as
good houses could be rented in Clio at
from $500 to $1,000 per month, while
the largest rent paid in the village, so
far as his information went, was SIS. 90
per month. We are glad MIR. Wirth
took the pains to reply to the article
first above mentioned and we think the
facts are that people would come from
Flint to Clio to reside, in considerable
numbers, if we had houses to accommo-
date them.