The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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Ford . ........ .Manager and
The News tenders its cojo^atulptions'to' the
rañge-Leaderon the exceptional perspicacity
that paper in tliusearly probing through Port
rthur's mask of friendship and finding the-
diabolical, "the hellishly diabolical and Machia^
vellia'n plot which this city is planning to put
ipto execution against the rástic ^content and
prosperity of the town on the rivet. Of course,
it was a mighty devilish and foxy scheme,
willing to admit without knowing a
I about it, except what Ford tells us. Port
" according to the Leader, is going to
emissaries" (ha, did you get-that—emi
-7-to "invade Orange county to work a|
deep water bond issue." That is to;
I Arthur was going to do all this. But
the hidjus villyun has been unmas"
shaw the Detective, we'll have to
saries (you, heard us the first 'time—r"emis-
ries") at home and let Orange county attend
its own defeating, as it did when an effo
3 made to increase the tax rate so the c
Id have better schools. (NO,
i't send any "emissaries" that time either.)
ie only trouble with the Leader's expose of
í wicked machinations of Port Arthur is th.át
isn't definite. The Leader either has pimply
t clue pointing toward such a plot or is going
3 be merciful and not expose us completely, but
íply.hand out that "word to the wise is suffi-
lt" dope. We presume that the sefeond chdp-
of ^Ford's intensely interesting find highly
matic narrative of detection will come along
i the next issue of Leader—surely he isn't go-
; to stop just when our interest is aroused
fever heat, and each individual hair of our
id is up on end. It would be entirely too
lei for him to quit and leave us thus in sus-
íse.—Port Arthur News.
Help, murder, police, pull him off! Now that
tump has got that load out of his system and
; comparatively quiet, won't some kind friend
please let him know that there is a'Pasteur In-
stitute at Austin, where people are, successfully
treated for hydrophobia. He's got us to. the
ropes now, and with another onslaught like tl-at
!*. sre'll have to take the count.
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| Governor Campbell is trying to,whip the leg-
islators info line with a cry of ^^wo^'^as^ap-
plied to the Commercial Secretaries. The Coin-
} . reial organizations of Texas aré engaged in
the one laudable effort of developing ¿the indus-
trial, agricultural and commercial resources, of
the state, this work being carried.jmj>ruwipaUy
by the secretaries employed by these organiza-
tions and who comprise the Commercial*' Secre-
taries Association. This being trite, 'it does
seem absolutely silly and childish j-or the gover-
nor of the state, who ought to be hií^rt.aní Voul
in favor of any movement tending to the devel-
opment of the state of which he is the executive
head, to be forever and eternally fighting and
opposing the very elements that are calculated
to do most good for the state. The governor
has a grouch and can't get rid of it, and it
seems that the whole state must suffer in con-
sequence.. . -
ves impugned and his
especially when these criticisms oome
¡ople who seem to have not the slightest
conception of the broad plane on which a sure
newspaper ought to be conducted and
on which we try to conduct this one.
• •« • v * & W . % 1$^ HP "W *1^
have he does
buys a coat
the
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A man said to the Leader editor yesterday:
'I am very much in favor of deep water and
the bond issue and twill do what I can for it,
but I want to say right now that even with deep
water Orange cannot hope to become much of
a city or an attractive place for visitors as long
as the cows are allowed, to roam at will on the
streets, both day and night. A cow ordinance
is about as-important as deep water, in many
ways." Just ahout that time we looked out
and saw an old' cow take a swipe at a bundle
of paper^ that had just been left by the^drayman
in front of the office. Before we could get to
her she had eaten the whole end off of one bun-
dle of paper and we fervently agreed with our
friend that we need 'a stock law and. need it
brfdly.
Col. A. J* Houston, the popular and efficient
United States Marshal for the Eastern district
of Texas, is meeting with some opposition for
re-appointment to this position. Col houston
is a valuáble citizen of East Texas, he is an
apostle of civjc righteousness, he is ever found
in the front ranks of those who are laboring
for the development and upbuilding of this sec-
tion along all lines and we fail to see any reason
why he should be opposed for this office, ex-
cept that some other fellow would like to enjoy
the emoluments thereof. Of course, we would
like to see a good democrat get the job, but in-
asmuch as this is riot possible, we unhesitatingly
cast our vote for. the retention of Col. Houston
as United States Marshal.'
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Congressman Martin Dies has advised the
Leader that he will send a daily copy Of the
An optimistic lumber sales agent who op-
erates in the Louisiana-Texas territory gave out
an interview the other day in which he stated
that he had secured an order for one million feet
of lumber to be used in the construction of a
Louisiana college that had been destroyed by
fire. That sounded mighty good, but now
comes a paper published in the neighborhood
of the proposed college building, which states
that the contract calls for a building to be con-
structed of brick and reinforced concrete, fire-
proof throughout, and we begin to wonder what
they are going to do with a million feet of lum-
ber in erecting that kind of building. Of course,
wé don't doubt anybody's word, but we just
wonder, that's all.
he merchant says it is; if he buys a barre
pples he is indignant if he discovers that
iig apples have been put in the ends,of
the
he buys a
ahig _ „
barrel and small or unsound ones betw<
he Hecides not to deal again with the man
whom he bought them. No man wins .
success whp does not deal fairly with his c
tomers. But let us not be honest simply becai
lit pays financially, for there is a better-reason
—it pays for peace of mind afforded and the
true welfare of the-soul."
John W. Gates denies the published
that he contemplates putting in a*paper
Port Arthur, This looks very much like
W. is a "piker" to announce as soon as he
covered What a big proposition a paper mill
that he has no intention of putting up one in
little city.—-Orange Leader.
Col. Gates could build a paper mill if he w
ed to, but not even as energetic and far-reach-
ing a capitalist as he can get arpund to all the
good things waiting to fall into some receptive
hat. With his oil company, steamboat line, bus-
iness college, tropical fruit interests, railroad,
townsite and investment affairs to look after
every day, besides his battery of automobiles,
Col. Gates is Isept fairly busy, his work, indeed,
encroaching at times upon his social reservation.
—Galveston News.
And in'addition to all that he has now estab-
lished a chicken ranch—and if that doesn't keep
him busy, maybe Stump can get him to take an
interest in the Port Arthur News.
they
load of pianos h
tion to the large num
of the people.; It
ing, that the piano
disposed of
in so
¡Br '
m
id
El
stockhol
e
icord on file
íy of our reád
ae they desire
to 'ijost thein-
l the national
id ; eácK of His
Ma
any who may
this request, we will place the
here and would be glad to have
ers call at the office at any ti:
and look over the Record so ai
selves as to what is transpiring
ture. Mr. Dies cannot
oo||títuénts the Beoord, but thi
many of them in this way, an<j the idea is a
good one, A portion of his assignment of the
Becord he is holding back to be bouhd' th per-
manent form and then to be presented by him
to some-of the schools and libraries in his dis-
trict. As this is a notable and histoty making
session of congress these will be valuable ad
ditions to any library. n: •
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"Keep Sweet," is the significant motto shown
on a button worn in the lapel of j)r. Colyer, the
distinguished divine now holding, a ser jes of
meetings at. the Christian church - in this, qfty.
This is a motto which we would "all do well to
wear, not only on our lapels, but in our hearts.
It requires a struggle, the exercise of will power,
and a good deal of grace, for one to "keep
sweet" all the timé, but we all feel much bet-
and think more of ourselves when we haye
juered a desire to be mean. ¡From personal
menee we
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when' he ib criticised right and left,
say that it's fearfully hard
ceep sweet" all the time, es-
A two million dollar timber deal is said to
be on the tapis at Lake Charles, Louisiana.
Those fellows evidently have no fear of,what
the new tariff bill is going to do to the lumber
trade, if they are; willing to put two million dol-
lars into the business at this stage of the game.
The names of the purchasers in this deal are
not given and we are left to conjecture as to
whether or not John Marsháll, the distinguished
journalist of Lake Charles, is mixed up in the
deal. He's been, keeping mighty quiet since he
retired from Che editorship of the Press and we
greatly fear that he is preparing to máke his
debut as a full fledged lumber baron.
•Some of the pilots and boat captains inter-
viewed by the government engineer who visited
Orange for thát purpose last Saturday, ex-
pressed the opinion that, inasmuch as the move-
ment is now on for the development of the Sa-
bine-Neches canal to a depth of twenty-five feet,
it would be the part of wisdom to leave undis-
turbed for the present the cluster piling mark-
ing the channel across the neck of the lake and
which the government has been petitioned to
remove. If the canal is deepened, then the pil-
ing will have to be removed and the channel
marked with bouys and to do / the work now
would simply entail an unnecessary expense.
Hardly a day passes that the Leader editor
is not called Upon for information regarding Or-
ange and the opportunities offered here for the
investor or. homeseeker, and while we are al-
ways glad of the opportunity" to disseminate
this information and attract outside attention
to Orange, at the same time this is a work that
could be done to much better advantage by a
commercial organization and every day that
Orange lets go by "Without reorganizing her
Progressive League, she is neglecting a won-
derful opportunity for development. There is
great need for a business organization of this
kind and the League should bé rejuvenated.^
Under the caption, "Play Fair—-ItPays,*' the
April Farm Journal says:
"No matter how much money a pian may
The first thing the new Orange Produce com-
pany did was tp bring something to «at in.
The profit comes ip. shipping something to eat
out, as Stowell has found.—Beaumont Enter-
prise.
This was simply a, starter. Already they are
beginning to ship out products of Orange coun-
-ty farms and the establishment of this house
here will give a decided impetus to the truck
growing industry in Orange county, especially
aS the manágers have made a standing offer to
contract for the entire output of. every truck
farm in the county, taking the New Orleans
market prices as a basis.
; "Having had John Gates in his town "for an
hour, Ford can now better account for that feel-
jpg.of live wireness which is continually (
ienced in Port Arthur," says the Po?t
News. Pshaw, Stump, we didn't feel a tremor
while Gates was here. The Sabine flowed along
as placidly as ever and the wheels of commerce
didn't make a bobble while the great man was
in the city. Fact is, we have so many people in
Orange all the time that are as big as John W.
Gates, and who are live wii^s, themselves, that
lijta coming is a matter of nó very great ooncerm
A commodious and comfortable steamer put
in the passenger business on the Sabine and
Neches rivers this summer would be a paying
proposition. With a ten foot channel available
and practically the entire distance to Port Ar
thur through an inland watérway, summer ex-
cursions will be much more popular than they
were when the vessels had to encounter the un-
certainty and danger of lake navigation. An
excursion steamer would be liberally patronized
here this summer.
It was this sort of remarkable exhibition of si-
multaneous thought and unanimity of 'opinion
among some of the newspapers that caused
Governor Tom Campbell to make that insulting
statement about the danger of the country press
being edited by the railroad lawyers should
the right of contract be restored to the news-
papers and railroads. The Madam Editor o;
the Times, gives the brethren of the press a
pointer in the above that some of them would
dci well to heed.
stl
ret
Arthur Ni
aid.
Charles i
a&fl
Southeast
•v. v'S
tent that
bills and
hip hand
appro-
íem—and
will prob-
es being
riation bills
iting his ability
injury to the
* is supposed to ,
mm
has it
County
man
his
vie
rles American
the Port-
íur Her-
i our Lake
a dead one
.i. years,
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saying.
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"And now that Orange crate factory is ship-
ping fruit crates to Brownsville when it ¿ought
to be working overtime to supply the demand
from fruit growers of this section," remarks the
Port Arthur News. The fruit growing industry
in Southeast Texas is yet young, but we confi-
dently expect to see the time—and that not far
distant—when the Orange curate factory will
have to double or treble its capacity in order
to supply the demand from local fruit growers.
The churches of Gonzales, Texas, are setting
a good example in the way of civic improve-
ment to the balance of the people of that little
city. A dispatch from lhat place states that the
Baptist church has contracted for 3175 feet of
concrete sidewalk, the Christian church, 2,000
feét; the Episcopal church, 1,600 feet, and the
Methodist church, 2,000 feet. Civic pride and
good morals go hand in hand. Orange would Be
improved if she had a little more of both.
'ifpf IpWa
liiiMlwh
trying to
hold her dress in
Torrey of the
things. But we
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regulations or
Senator Kel
a correction
ports from Aust
member of Hoot
army.
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by General Í
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With more
property tax paying voters of the county pledg-
ed in writing to the support of the deep water
bond issue, Orange is now ready to bring the
matter to a head in this county. We await
movements of our friends on the Neches.
ball, brethren.
Saturday was "banana day" in
the people literally feasted on this tropical früit.
The Orange Fruit and Commission company un-
loaded their entire stock Saturday at a
and the buyers gave the people the &
of the bargain and bananas were c*
Orange than they have ever been before.*
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Orange county should
estéd in that proposed hi
leans to San Antonio. A
versing the entire breadth
east to west
KimiR
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Ford, A. L. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, March 26, 1909, newspaper, March 26, 1909; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth183158/m1/4/: accessed April 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.