We Invite The Attention Of Every

local reader of the Argus - that is of every reader located in Ann Arbor - to a communi catión iu tliis day'i issno on the subject of indicating by some esternal " sign " tbe dethe to let rooms to studente or take boardors. Our citizens all know that about the first of Oclober several hundred yonng -all strangers- will be sceking temporary homes in our midst. Most of thetn will make their ürst appearanca in our streets, will have no quartet'S provided in advauce, no home selected, ar.d no friends to assist thera in locating. - They go up and down our streets, singly, in pairs, and by squads, ringing this bell and that, frowned upon here and a door shut in their faces there, until dishearteued and diagusted inaoy leavefor home. We have no hotels to accommodate hundreds temporarily, and until they cao spy out the land, and no dormitories orcommons with opD doars, and it is, therefore, necessary that our citizens one and all show a disposilion to lend a helping hand to the coming students. If you have no rooms fov them, do not at least tieat them as trespassers for calling at your door ; if you wish no boarders, pleasantly inform them that this or that neighbor does; aud, as our correspondent suggests, if you want boarders or wish to rent rooms make it known by " hangingout a shingle." It is for the interest of the University, aud for the interest of our city, that no student return home for want of accommodations, and a little forethought will provide accommodations for all, and without that delay and vexation te which many were subjected last year. The pinch comes at the opening, and then is the need for a liberal spirit. In this connection we snggest that if onr citizens will consult their own interests they will not affix extravagant prices to board or rooms. Tiiere ara other Colleges and Universities in the land, and if an Iliberal, unccommodating, or grasping reputation is onca gainod, the tide of students will turn elsewhere. J3T The Courier puts in a bid for the city printing, just by way of notoriety, we mppose. It propose to publish the or5inances, &c, required to be published by ïtatute, at something less than half the legal ratea, and the Council proceedings in fnll for 25 cents per folio. Noiv, we do not propose todo the liltle printing the Chaiter requiies the City to have done, at less than the statnte prices, les than the Couritr charges private citizem. When we reduce the legal rates it will be to the poor and needy ; certainly we shall not convert ourself into a diniinu. tire " rat " for a Corporation able to pay a fair price - and the Legislatura of the Stato has said what tïiat is The Council proceedings - not required by law to be published - we have offered time and again to publish free if the copy is furnished, making our tprms as a whole less than those proposed by the Courier, thongb the Couricr'i offer ia reasonaWc enougH. No more about the City Planting, just now