The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Friday, April 30, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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Manager and Editor
MORNING AFTER.
'he "morning after" has dawned,
day has waned, and ere this edi-
an of the Leadv sjiall have reached
Its readers, the major portion, of the
^l^sitors to Orange who have for the
ffepast two days been attending the
J; Eighth Anriual Convention of the
fourth District, Texas Federated
; Wómen's Clubs, wijl have bidden- us
! adieu and returned to their various
homes. " '
These two days have been pleásáñt
I and eventful. ones ih the history of,
Orange.
I, This was a notable gathering of
distinguished and "intelligent women
|;bf Texas, and it has given, Orange
f'great pleasure, indeed, to have had
"nem as her guests.
. The convention was an unqualified
success in every way, from a bus-
f iness and* from a-social standpoint.
There was a creditable attendance,
' thirty-one clubs being.repfiesented by
. regularly authorized delegates
rite that number of visitors attend-
ing from the various cities in the
fourth District.
It was the first experience of Or-
ange in entertaining- a convention of
women,'but, be it said to the credit of
|¡that faithful little band, of workers,
who had the arrangements in charge,
the Ladies' Reading Club, the enter-
; tainment was carried out in a man-
: ner that reflected credit upon Or-
and gave unalloyed pleasure to
ir visitors.
;í,To Mrs. W.. D. Rcttis, president 6f
Ladies' Reading Club, is due un-
ed ryaise, for, occupying the of-
sition that she does, upon
's fallen a large part of the re-
fsjbility for the proper care and
Iter tainment of the convention.
The president has been ably assist-
ed by every member of the club, each
Ipf .whom has doiie all in her power to
K make the convention a success, and
|they have received great assistance
id encouragement frohi many of the
ádies of the city who are not mem-
tr's of a Federated Club.
' v Mrs. J. W. Parker was the local
í-representative on the program, com-
íitlee, and she sucfeeded admirably
the work assigned to. her of se-
aring the local numbers for the pro-
ram.
In thfe short time aílótted to the
ention, of course, it was impossi-
ble, to have a great number of enter-
| tainment or social features, but the
I ^visitors were hearty and sincere in
¿heir statements that never has a con-
.ention of the club women' had more
delightful ' entertainment or more
cáutiful and enjoyable sociál func-
iona given in their honor.
The afternoon Reception at the
ame of Mrs. John T. Hart on the
irst day and the magnificent even-
ing reception given last night at the
rie of Mrs. Geo. W. Bancroft were
•that will long linger in the
of ¿11 who attended.
has benefitted by having
distinguished visitors, the city
acquitted itself creditably in the
ainment of the convention and
Eighth Annual Convention has
i pronounced by all to have been
very best in the history of the
anization. '
' —:
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
t Leader management takes
in announcing today the ad-
of a new member of the staff;
i/connection with this paper we
> -will make it stronger and better
has ever been before,
ith this is^ue Mr. C. E. Gilbert,
comed to Orange from Stam-
becomes associate .editor of the
Gilbert is one of the nesto.rs
journalism and a charter
sr of the -Ttxas Press Associa-
had long years of exper-
in the newspaper business in
was the founder of the Dallas
the strongest after
er in Texas,',was state
liter under the/ administration of
eirnor Sayers and Superintendent
of Public Buildings arid Grounds at
Austin under the administration of
" overnor , Lanham. ,
Mr. Gilbert has recently been con-
ed with the News at Stamford,
comes to Orange front that
far western city.
le his work on the Leader will
as city editor, we doubt not that
r readers will often be regaled with
graphs from his facile pen on. the
P page, which, however, Will
luc tc bfe under the personal di-
Ijlbcrt fs an old and
cured h\s sejrvices for this paper, while
his ¡Family wijl be welcome additions
tó tl*c citizenship of Qrange. M
Or*, the first day of May Mr. W.
A. Steidley, Jr., -who has been with
the Leader ever since it Vfas converted
into a daily and with the Daily Tri-
bune for ¿evQfal years before that
will ¿ever his connection with
r. '■ ;
it with Mr. Steidley with
t, foftr he has been a valued
the paper arid has been
.ehtified' w<th its * continual
á sincere, ardént newspaper
has shown his versatility
s by holding down the edi-
torial sarictum during the absence
or sickness of the editor and keep-
ing. the columns bright and Sparkling
with his paragraphs, or handling the
telegraph department and placing the
outside news of the d^y before the
readers of the paper in an attractive
way, or covering the local field in
a competent and thorough manner
We will give up Mr.. Steidley with
regret.'' \ ft ■
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STUMP, THE ELDER, ELUCI-
f. DATES.
The esteemed Orange Leader says:
"They've got a new drink over in .Cal-
and casieu parish called 'senoj,' and the
courts are now wrestling with the
question of whether or not it comes
tinder,' the ban of the prohibition law.
If they can't find a better name for
it than that, they ought to put it
"undCr the ban." That is just the
snippy kind of remark that might be
expected (rom a man who had never
endured the.horrors of prohibition.—
Lake Charles (La.) American.
The Beacon has turned its Sher-
lock Holmes faculties to the forego-
ing for the past few days, and has
discovered from the peculiar shape
of the dot over the last letter of the
v¿ord "Senoj" that four letters have
been omitted; still further investiga-
tion demonstrates that the four miss-
inglefters are "luap," and were doubt-
less omitted' for the purpose of de-
ception. Hence the full name of this
new Louisiana beverage is "senoj
luap." It should require no great
amount of wrestling by the court If
she knows herself, and we think she
do, or for the Leader editor either,
to transpose these two meaningless
and mystic words, the letters of which
they will discover spell the very com-
mon name of Paul Jones,- and by
which a familiar bar-room beverage
is designated. Plenty of witnesses
can be found around Orange, and as
far east as Lake Charles, who can
testify that the aforementidned Paul
Jones is hilariously intoxicating.
Brother Ford, the next time Bill
Krebs jumps on you, just call us up;
we'll fix him good and plenty.—Pal-
acios Beacon.
A "WARNING TO PARENTS.
The parents in Orange should make
it an especial point to warn their
children while traversing or playing
on the streets to refrain from dashing
out in front of automobiles or other
vehicles. /
No driver of an automobile will
willingly or knowingly injure anyone,
but there is always danger of accident
unions the, proper precautions are
observed. ~
A case in point. :
A couple of days ago a gentleman
driving an automobile was coming ug
Border street and just before reach-
ing the Orange & Northwestern cross-
ing he saw several little boys play-
ing in the street and one of the boys
evidently preparing to dash across the
street in front of the automobile inf
a spirit of bravado and fun.
The gentíl&foán promptly applied
the brake and brought the machine to
slow speed just -as the boy, sure
enough, started to dash across the
street. The boy, uhfortunately, slip-
ped and fell right in front-of the
machine, but owing to the precau-
tion of the gentleman driving in hav-
ing applied the brakes in time, the.
machine wats brought to a standstill
just as it touched the prostrate form
of thi/fcoj*. ' '
Thfe little fellow, of course, was
uninjured, but it was a narrow escape.
If the driver of the machine had
not taken the precaution to stop the
power and apply the brake, a dread-
ful accident would have occurred and
if the boy had1 not fallen he could
not possibly have crossed the street
aheád of the approaching machine.
Thii should be an object • lesson.
Parent#' fehóúld warn their children
about tryiieig to run across the street
ahead . of an automobile, or of any
other moving vehicle.
If they do not take this precaution,
an accident tt)ay;; occur at any time,
and one for 'which no one will be
responsible but the children them-
selves, or their parents who have
faiiéd to warn them about thus taking
chances.' ' ' • _ ' ,
PORT ARTHUR GA?N.
To -the ¡IKditor:
Iri discussing the rise of Galveston
to sccQiid place among American sea-
ports it has been repeated by arte
lcd writer after another that Galveston
■ "■ ;
1908 and that'«ÍI the other,
ground. This i? a mistake,
from the ^act that the stati
which these remarks were "
ered only the'eight leading ports. Had
the calculators gone down the list a
little further to Port Arthur, Texas,
thirteenth iri total foreign commerce,
they would have discovered that it
made a most substantial gain last
year. Had they examined the entire
list of the eighty-odd ports on the
American coast they w:ould have
found that it made the largest per-
c«ntage gain of any, large or small.
It is true of course that at the pres-
ent time Port Arthur does not do
the enormous, business" that older
ports do; nevertheless it bulks some-
what iri the eyes of the Southwest arid
the newspaper comments 'aforesaid
might be taken by readers in this
section to exclude Port Arthur from
thf list of growing ports. It seems
well that such án impression should
be corrected. It seetns well also that
the occasion should b$ seized to
point out tlhat in rapidity of growth
Port Arthur stands alone;
PORT ARTHÜR BOARD OF
TRADE,
C. Owen, Secretary.
April 26, 1909. .
FOR'DEEP WATER.
Just because not a great deal has
been said in the paper recently about
the deep water movem^,. let no one
think for a moment that enthusiasm
on this subject has'died out.
All the preliminary work has been
done that can be done until the com-
missioners court- sets a day for the
hearing. When this date is an-
nounced then it will behoove every
good citizen to get busy and to en-
deavor to make the demand for the
organization of a navigation district
and the issuing of bonds for im-
proving and deepening the Sabine-
Neches canal a practically unanimous
one- * ' /. '•
A very large majority of the voters
of the county have already signed
the petitions and pledged themselves
to vote* in favor of the bond issue.
Our energy and watchfulness
should not become lax, though, but
every mail should be kepf interested, a
big vote polled and a tremendous ma-
jority .rolled up for the navigation
district and the bond issue.
Beaumont is getting extremely
busy. She will have a grand rllly
next Wednesday, £t which time sig-
natures to their' petition will be se-
cured and it is expend that a large
majority of the tax payers of Jerferson
county will, on that day, align,them-
selves with the progressive element
in favor of a bond issue 'for deep
water. -
Tha fight'is on. Let every rijan
stand for progress and prosperity.
There is no race suicide in Orange
and for this reason the increased en-
rollment1 in the city public schools
for the past few years has kept far
ahead of the increased revenues until
the school 'authorities are'now about
to face the question, to reverse an old
saying, of filling a gallon jug with-
only a half gallon of water. While
tw^ elections calling for a special
school tax have been defeated, in Or-
ange within the past few years, we
have asserted continuously, and be-
lieve it to be so now, that when the
people of Orange really and absolute-
ly face a deficiency in the school
funds then they- will come to the
rescue anfljrpte an additional tax for
the purpose of maintaining : the
schools. at the highest standard pos-
sible. They have not heretofore ab-
solutely faced this deficiency. In
both elections referred to there, Was
a comfortable surplus in the school
fund at the close of each school ses-
sion and the people felt that as'long
as the schools could be operated and
a surplus fund.left over an additional
tax would not be needed. This was
siihply postponing the inevitable and
the time has npw about arrived when'
they will face the problem of an ad-
ditional tax on a shorter school term.
Of course, this deficiency may • not
exist just now, but it is in sight and
the people should right now begin to
make up their minds ~to vote an ad-
ditional tax for the support, of the
schools before the end of anottyrf
annual session*.
1
does riot salve
injured dignity of the law nor do
anybody any good, t I* mpn at
the head pf a trust are declared guil-
ty by the courts they should be im-
prisoned and made to bear the pun-
ishment,"instead of beiitg ma.de to
pay an immense sum of money which,
in turn, the people^ themfelves will
have- to pay back into its coffers.
v- — . ; ,
Calling the : Leader editor W the
'phorie this morning,'Mr. H- M. Shin-
gle> tpánager of the'Orange Telephone
coriipany, said: "I want to Congratu-
late you upon the splendid paper you
issued yesterday in honor of the club
convention. It was a creditable piece
of work and "mechanically perfect.
My folks are now in New York, and
I certainly will not be ashamed to
Seftd copies of this paper to them tp
show to their friends in that state."
We certainly appreciate the thought-
fulness of Mr. Shingle |n letttng us
know that our efforts fo creditably
represent Orange aré approved. It
is such thoughtfulness as this that
gives a newspaper man new strength
and courage to gt> forward in the
work before and spurs him on to
do h|s very best for his community—
and we are going to continue to ex-
pend our every""energy- in making the
Leader a creditable and responsible
representative of Orange.
Inquiries have been received by the
Leader within the past few days from
North Dakota and, from Illinois for
literature and information of the re-
sources and advantages of Orange that
would assist home seekers in determin
ing where to cast their, lot in the south-
ern clime. Copies Of the Leader were
sent them and the names turped oVer
to orie of the wide awake, hustling
real estate men to follow them up
with personal letters. There is' a
great moveinent constantly iri pro-
gress from the north and northwest
to Texas arid the only reason that
Orange does not secure a greater pro-
portion of this immigration than she
dofs is because she makes no deter-
mined, organized effort to go after
it. We are right up to date in some
things, but wofully lacking in the ab-
solute essentials along other lines.
We "fail to see anything patriotic
or creditable in that spectacular au-
tomobile drive from the banks to the
state capitol iri Austin Saturday with
the bags of money wrung from the
Waters Pierce' Oil company. It
would have been more dignified and
much more Creditable if the loot had
been quietly transferred with as little
display as possible. Referring to this
Waters Pierce fine the other day, a
citizen of Orange rémarked: "That
strikes me about lilce this; if I saw
a man robbing another.and I#held him
up, took, the loot away from him and
appropriated it to my own use it
would be aibcgit like this fining the
Wafers Pierce Oil cojnpany," And
he did not mcai> fo infer, iither that
The City Board of Education in
Orange ¡vre now confronted with the
most difficult problem with which
that body of patriotic men ever have
to' deal, the-selection of a faculty
for the ensuing Session. The selec-
tion of teachers who will have the
care "and guidance of the children of
the city for nine months in a year is
no small matter, for it is a case where
mistakes are fatal to the welfare of
the schools and in their arduous tósk
these gentlemen have the sympathy
and the best wishes of the Leader,
whose editor has served for many
years in the past on the School Board
and can appreciate just what these
patriotic citizens will have to contend
with for the next two or three months
in their effort.tp„.j;ill all vacancies and
secure a complete, Well rounded fac-
ulty for the ensuing term.
From the garden of Captain August
Pavell came to the Leader sanctum
yesterday a sack of new Irish pota-
toes that would be hard to excel if
one were to search the country over.
These were of th« famous Tennessee
Triumph variety and were just a few
samples from the little garden and
truck patch which Capt. Pavell culti-
vates at odd times and which is now
proyiding such an abundance of good
things for the table. We appreciate
these thoughtful remembrance's of our
friends and take pleasure in calling-
attention to the splendid products
of farm and garden grown in Orange.
Edward Lancaster Wilson is con-
tributing some good stuff to the Or-
ange Leader under the caption, "By
the Wayside." Capt. has. a lilt to his
rhyme and a* sweetness of thought
that will make him a popular jingle
•coricoctor.-—Beaumont Enterprise.
, Readers of the Leader have enjoyed
Mr. Wilson's contributions, most of
which have a heart interest and a local
color that lend to thteir attractiveness,
and we look upon him as more than
a "jingrle concoctor" and see a bud-
ding genius that may xet place hitri
pn a footing with some of the poets
prominent in the nation's literary his-
tory. i i 'Siffiw®!.
While no great blow is made about
it, in fact, little notice ever being
made of it, it is an important .'fact
that in nearly every battleship or
cruiser built on the Atlantic coast fór
the United States navy, some products
of mills' at Orange go into their con-
struction. The Lutcher & Moore
Lumber company have recently made
a shipment, of mjaterial that was used
in constructing the battleship Ütah,
this particular shipment of yellow
pine having been declared by all con-
tractors and builders Whb saw it to
be the finest lot "of material ever
si
the followin
ral Davidson will1 now get in be-
hind the lumber trust and give them
th£^ame kind of treatment he handed
the oil company, we i&ill vote for him
for governor next year." Guess if
the Attorney General should start
out on a hunt for the lumber trust
and call upon the Yoakum Herald
man for some testimony that would
aid hinj in pursuing the investigation,
the writer who so thoughtlessly penn-
ed the foregoing paragraph would
have to admit that he was a "pBfer"
artd couldn't produce the;1 • goods.
There are V good many people . in
Texas who glibly talk about a lumber
trust, but who couldn't possibly pro-
duce( any evidence that would tend
to shbw the existence of such a trust;
It's ¿11' rot of the wo¿st kind. *
The New Orleans Item cynically
says: "Beginnirig Monday next the
police jury of Calcasieu will stop
paying ,the board for convicts and
have them workNjn the great Trans-
Calcasieu highway. That highway is
enthusiastically advocated by all deni-
zens of dry Calcasieu; for it taps wet
territory at both ends." The esteem-
ed Item* is" off its trolley. . The Trans-
Calcasieu highway at one end de-
bouches into the desert of Acadia 'and
at the other into Orange; and the
brand of wet goods Orange people
like would make a Calcasieu man t%ke
the pledge.—Lake Charles (La.) Am-
erican. '
Oh, we don't know. We haven't
heard of any great rush over there
to sign the pledge. Ón the other
hand, we understand that for every
sample of wet goods sent from here
into thirsty Calcasieu a "Hurry
Back" order immediately results.
,1. ^ , .
"Our business this year is showing
a steady'gain over that of last year,"
remarked Mr. Phil. Williamson, one
of the managers of the Hodges Mer-
cantile company, yesterday, to ' the
Leader editor, "and we feel very much
encouraged over the outlook for trade
for the balance of the year." It might
be remarked in passing that the
Hodges store is one of the largest
and most persistent users of printers'
ink in this city and there is a very
go'od reason for their increased bus-
iness, especially when one remetn-
bers-that they make it a point to
back up their advertising with the
goods and the prices and with cour-
teous treatment. Advertising alone
canriot bring the business unless it
is properly followed, up in the store,
a fact'that they fully realize. ' -
From the apiary of A. L.. Dees &
Son, on Cherry street, came to the
Leader editor today s.ome liberal sam-
ples of the splendid honey that is
being produced there. Mr. Dées |s
head accountant of the Miller-Link
Lumber company; and devotes his
leisure hours at home to the care of
his apiary arid poultry yard and is de-
riving a nice income from the work
of his bees. He sees in this apiary a
splendid future and has taken his baby
boy Into partnership with him on that
part of the business. His success is
demonstrating .beyond a doubt that
there is a. splendid future for bee cul-
ture in this section.
The Orange Leader referí proudly
to the "aromatic adolescence" of its
town. After looking up ti
words in the dictionary, we
the first refers to smells,
second meaning growing.
deed sorry to learn that the
Orange is growing—worse, presum-
ably.—-Port Arthur News.
Growing, yes. Growing
purer, more aromatic, more delight-
ful, more odorous, more ambrosial,
more balmy, more spicy, more fra-
grant—why, bo, Orange is the sweei
est place on earth. If you don't
lieye it, come up and spy out t
land.
Recent newspaper reports
that Dilley is to have a ne
Well, where in Texas is Dilley,
like to know? Further repoi
the paper is to be published by a
lady, and that its name is to be the
Dilley Atmosphere. Dilley must be
a vacuum, which nature abhors, and
the new paper will supply the de-
sired fillin' with hot air—oh, shucks,
we can't do the subject justice. Will
Ford of the Orange Leader kindly
help us out?—Palacios Beacon.
No, thank you, We decline to
dilly-dally with thi< Object. *
, ;'I |'
Mr. George W. Winter, of the Or-
ange Fruit and Comisison company,
is an enthusiastic advocate of. the
0
1
wishes in the
The Lake
urging the''people
gin to plan for a
celebration, tells
facts that apply as
It says: "Last year on th
of July, Lakp Charles people spei>t
$10,000 in other towns looking for a
good time,. 'and people who wou'd
have spent that much here if any-
thing had been doing, wertt off and
spent it in other places. We merely
mention this to remigd our business
men that we can do the "same thing
this year, if they do not feel that
they need the money."
The Leader is in receipt of a letter
of inquiry from a mati who is en-
gaged in the creamery business in an-
other part of tjie state, and who is fig-
uring on branching out and wants
to locate here if conditions are fav- ;
arable. There seems to us to be a
splendid opportunity here for the
profitable operation of a creamery.
There is no such institution in the
entire county and there is alway* a
big demand locally for butter, while
shopping facilities for reaching out-
side markets are first class,. We trust
the gentleman will decide to come
to Orange and look over the sit-
uation before making up his mind 39
to his location. '
A greater interest has been mani-
fested in the growing of fine chickens
in Orange this year than ever be-
fore and there are some very fine
broods being started here, including
the popular Barred Rocks, White
Rocks,'Partridge Cochins and White
Orpingtons,' and it is quite probable
that when Beaumont and ' Houston
pull off their annual poultry shows
next fail Orange will have prize win-
ning exhibits at both. * |
• New York has established a oen-'
sorship over the moving picture
shóws and. in future no picture will
be allowed to be shown that has re-
ceived the stamp of disapproyal from
th¿ board of censors. Th}s is a move-
ment that should become Universal
throughout the countfy.
OTHER PEOPLE'S BRAINS.
One of the most difficult thj|
man ever tried to do' is to make
fices for others when he knoi
they will not appreciate the sq
—Bonham News.
A Shreveport man has beer
before the city judge and fill
for selling a pint bottle of
pagne for 25 cents. In *
he would have been
ted on the grot
sponsibiiity, brai;
gical. er
Chárles
compa
has
cil
insar
the ne
in th<¡
positi
m
¡9
V the
srfr.j Pierce Oil
e big fine that ?
rali
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be
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sweeter*
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emission form of government. Mr.
titer is from Waco, having been a
resident of that city when the chanf
was made to the coi
government and he states
change for the better
ply marvelous. Or
shipped frftm a saw mill in the yellow Under thit form of govéí
'
mm < & ¿ ■ •
le tíf-a
RHBAmRHRIH
-i a half of good
is a windfall for
wm
s they are entitled
tion to unthoughtful
sudden prosperity is
s as in individuals,
ney cóuld Certainly
wisely, however, in the
by the Leader. It is
needed help
help them.
Pointe Cou-
judicial stren-
call down upon him the everlasting
condemnation of his brothers of the
wig and gown. He held court In three
parishes all in the same day, an un-
heard-of thing to do, upsetting all
precedents and throwing the dignity
of the bench to the winds as it were.
The avefage district judge does well
to hold court in one parish in three
days.—Monroe (La.) Star. * . t "1 '■ I'M
resident Taft v
regenerate of Lake Charles the ques-
rW*hat is it'" but "Where
is it?"—Daily American.
If Bro. Krebs would interview the
—Jennings
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