The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-02

l THINK you have an excel
lent idea. We want q good police
force and il a policeman has a
little protection beside him he
can do q better job. After all,
the dogs wouldn't be paid q
weekly salary. All they ask Is
q place to sleep. something to
live on and Q kind word from
their master. 1t wouldn't hurt
a bit to give 1t a try Police
Commissioner Oehmke ought to
think this over well before he
acts against it. It's too late to
think after a policeman loses his
life in the line of duty :"
We wonder II Bob Winslow
Is still wondering who II was
that telephoned his house Sat-
urday morning. He went over
to Ralph Clark's office, sat for
a while discussing this and
that, and finally came right out
with: "Well, Ralph, what did
you want me for?". But Ralph
hadn't called. So H. l., tele-
phoned Mrs. WinslOw, who re.
considered the message she re-
ceived during a busy period Of
the day, and said 1T may
have been ID. A." Well, it
wasn't ID. A! So whoever it
was, we hope they'll under
stand that Bob didn't deliber-
ately ignore them. :. Just
one of those things. The
thing we had been expecting
happened in one Of those gas
station lineups yesterday. One
of the waiting cars ran out of
gas and had to be logged down
the street, move by move, by
the car behind 1t.
THE NEWS that q Drinks
money-truck guard in Detroit
was shot and killed by a bandit
Monday brought a shock to law
yer Herman L. Brys when he
read the headlines and the story.
The man was William A. Hill,
age So, of 888 Lakewood, De-
troit, his uncle who has
frequently given Drinks service
to business places in Mount
Clemens and is known to many
in the Bath City. Although ell
derby, Hill was as active as any
man 20 years younger. He was
formerly a Ford company guard,
before joining Drinks.
For q long time we had plan.
ned to write q feature story
on a "littlc old lady" who
spent the narrowing years of
her life on q labor Of love.
Living alone in the large house
to which she came a. q bride
nearly 60 years ago, she devOt-
ed all her time, spring, summer
and fall to raising the most
beautiful garden of flowers
one could imagine. All the
money in the world couldn't
buy the bouquets she made up
land she had, in her youth,
been taught this art by masters
of it,. Those flowers went
only to the sick and the be-
reaved. Thousands OF.
punches went to the hospital
in the last 10 or Is years
and hundreds more went to
private homes where they
brought great cheer. This
grand lady, Mrs Louise
Pringnitz, died last weekend
at the age of Is >.
from a fall while working in
her garden. The flowers she
so generously gave away came
back to her. Friends
banked her casket with gor-
geOus floral tributes but
not one was half as beautiful
as the garden flowers she had
gathered for others.
A PARALLEL is quite notice
able in the deaths of Mrs. Pring-
nitz and of Mrs. Mamie Bollen-
sen, age 86, who also died dur
ing the weekend. Both were
born in Germany and came to
Michigan as children. Both had
lived in and around Mount Glenn
ems for 70 years and their hus-
bands owned old-fashiOned groc-
cry stores on Gratiot and Ma
comb. Both died as the result Of
fractured hips suffered in falls
at their homes and they
lived not much more than a block
apart. Both were loyal MEM
bers of Zion Evangelical Church,
and both were buried today by
the same minister. Both will
rest close by each other in Clin-
ton Grove Cemetery. They were
known and loved by a host of
friends.
In 1910, before the United
Ctatoe opterod tha war nasson.