The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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THE ORANGE LEADER
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be a dissenting vote, and we must double the
poll. Neither is it enough to be prepared to
vote right. Let everybody talk for the naviga-
tion district from now until election, and if
there is a neighboring community that needs
education on the matter, see that she gets it.”
COUNTIES ARE SLOW.
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“Every dog has his day” and a good dog,
like a good man, should have a long day when
his day comes. The Time#: Hera Id dearly loves
human interest stories. Here is one that ap-
p6&ls!
South Norwalk, Cohn., Jan. .10.—“Buster”
Plunkett, three years old, was saved from death
in front of an express train by “Irish,” a big
St. Bernard'dog that had been'playing with
“Buster” and his playmates. The child was on
a sled and several other boys were dragging him
about. In crossing the railroad tracks the sled
lodged on the bare ground and the children,
frightened at the approaching train, dropped
the rope and ran. The St. Bernard went up and
licked the crying child’s face. Then, with won-
derful intelligence, Irish took the rope in his
teeth and gulled the lad From the track just as
the express went by.
In the Hall of Fame the dog world reserve a
niche for “Irish.” He may be muzzled, he may
be shot before Falltime should he lose his tag
but whatever his fate may he, “Irish” will ever
have a green place in the memory of “Buster’
Plunkett and his little companions. Another
human interest story:
Montgomery, W. Va., July 9.—Floyd Keller,
clerk of the circuit court of this county, is tin*
possessor of a young bulldog which has assumed
the ctfre. protection and upbringing of a squad
of incubator chickens, and is doing it success-
fully, too. to the amusement <>f all of Keller’s
friends. When the chickens were first turned out
of the brooder “the purp” seemed to feel that
it was upon him to see that they made their wav
in the world, and he has proved to be an excel-
lent provider. It is one of the queerest sights in
the world to watch the dog lead his little group
of chickens to, the barnyard and begin a vigor-
ous scratching for worms, which, when found,
aye turned over to the chickens, who have been
cfelled to him by a series of low barks; or if lie
feels that the chickens need green stuff he
climbs the fence and raids the (‘lark’- lettuce
bed,• tomatoes or whatever strikes his fancy.
When his chickens are well fed he tucks them
all about him and dozes comfortably with them.
A bull-dog rearing a brood of motherless*
chicks is a sight worth witnessing and a story
wortli the while. There are good men and good
dogs; there are vicious men and vicious dogs,
and the vicious men outnumber the vicious dogs
at a ratio of 1000 to 1. Ever for the ‘Hinder
dog” when the under dog is doing bus best.
The Times-Herald gives space to tin* noble act-
of “Irish.” the St. Bernard^ife-saviorvand tin*
novel feat of the Alabama bull-dog. One of
Ouida’s heroes slew a deer and shot and killed
a man—a bad man. In after years he regretted
the first arid gloried in the last.—Balias 7 inn*s-
Ileraid.
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Houston and Harris county are now preparing
to fall in line and hold an election for the pur-
pose of authorizing the formation of a naviga-
tion district and the issuing of bonds to the
amount of $2,000,000 for making a deep water
ship channel out of Buffalo bayou. Of this the
tLa Porte Chronicle says;
“Following the bond election of last Tuesday
for good roads will soon come the question of
the navigation district and the bond election for
deep water.
“The details hate not been considered by
those having the matter in charge, bat it will
now receive early consideration, and as La Porte
is certafrf to be within the district under any
circumstances it will soon he before us in defi-
nite shape.
“There should be no more question where La
Porte stands on this matter than on the good
roads question. While it is certain that the Gal-
veston bay*project will ultimately be completed
by the general government, it is just as certain
that many years will elapse before that could
take place. With favorable action on a bond is-
sue of two million dollars for that purpose be-
fore October of this year, it is certain that two
years would see twenty-five feet of water to tlw*
Houston turning basin.
“There can scarcely be a doubt as to the
bonds being authorized, as the sentiment at
eaumont and Orange show, xne trend of the
public mind, and La Porte must show herself as
well up to the front as she was last Tuesday. In
fact, we should do better. There ought not to
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A dispatch from Austin says: “About ten
days ago the comptroller’s department sent out
notices to the county judges of the various
counties in the state, requesting them to furnish
the department with the population of the coun-
ties by precincts, so as to determine the number
of shloons which might be conducted in each
precinct.. , K
The law prescribes-that there shall he one sa-
loon for each 500 population. This population
is determined bv the number of scholastics in
each precinct, being on a basis of six citizens for
one scholastic*. Before the passing of the Fitz-
hugh-Robinson liquor law it was five.
Thus far only three counties have responded
to this requirement, being Galveston, Burleson
and Hardin. The department urges upon the
county judges to rush this information, so that
the department can inform itself as to the many
applicants for permits that are now being acted
upon bythe department.
While most towns and cities arc abolishing
the town hog, one community away out in the
western portion of the state, is calling for more
hogs. Out at Alpine it seems that the two
legged hogs of that community are so numerous
that it has become necessary to demand that a
few four-legged porkers be imported to do scav-
enger duty in that town. Editor Will Easter-
ling is given to passing up the low, base and dir-
ty things around him and seeing only tin* pure,
the beautiful and the good, but conditions out
in his town have become so had that In* has be
come desperate and enters the following mourn
ful plea; “Alpine needs a drove of hogs. Wt
have the* burro to fupnsh mu^ic, but there is
no law against having tin* hogs to furnish fat
One hundred hogs and one hundred buzzards
could keep hearty all the time doing scavenger
duty in Dead Cat Alley alone. Or we might
maintain a soap factory from the carcasses
throwndaily into that alley. Plant hogs in A1
pine. Do it now.’
When a person undertakes to write editorial
paragraphs for the dictation of his readers
he ought to be in a cheerfiW state of mind. When
the rain is pouring down in torrents, the clouds
are dark and lowering and you have to feel for
the keys on the tyjmwriter because* the electric
light plant has begun to economize by cutting
off the current, it’s pretty hard to feel cheerful,
so this editor is using other people’s brains to-
day to fill his department. We have no doubt
that our readers will declare that it is quite an
improvement over the usual fare that is dished
qut to them.
This is God’s country, without a doubt—this
section of Louisiana. Never a cyclone, never a ti-
dal wave, never an overflow, never severe cold,
and never prolonged drouths such as bring ruin
upon some sections, and though in the sunny
south, never a heat prostration is recorded. All
the blessed inhabitants have to do is pursue the
even tenor of their way and enjoy life. Oh, you
poor, miserable residents of other sections!
How our hearts bleed for you. And yet our
commiseration is mixed with a little contempt of
your judgment for settling elsewhere when you
could have coble to Calcasieu,-—Lake Charles
The Orange town cow never ceases her depreda-
tions long enough to let you think about any-
thing else—unless one happens to be foolish
enough to start to Port Arthur and get into a
bunch of those mosquitoes down there. Then
what he thinks wouldn’t do to print.
That was a splendid*report as to city finan-
ces, made by the board of. examiners for the
city and published in The Leader yesterday.
Every citizen of Orange who has not done so,
should read that report and study it. If shows
a splendid record for the present city adminis-
tration and the preceding one. Now, if we will
adopt the commission form of government, with
the right sort of commissioners, we can make
another great step forward in an economical
administration of municipal affairs—but be
sure to get the right sort of a commission.
V
Press.
Or just across the line in Orange county, Tex-
as.
John H. Kirby, organizer of the great Kirby
Lumber company, lias again gone on record in
favor of a ten hour work day for saw mill la-
borers. Lumber manufacturers at Orange,
years ago, inaugurated the ten-hour work day
for their laborers and when Mr. Kirby orga-
nized his company and took over a number of
the big East Texas mills, bis first official act
was to declare ten hours a day’s work at the
mills of that company. An effort is now being
made by some manufacturers to put their mills
hack to an eleven hours day, but this movement
is receiving no encouragement from Mr, Kirby
or from any lumber manufacturer in Orange.
With fifteen applications for license to dis-
pense booze pending before it. and a population
that will permit only thirteen under the new
law, the county court will be under the.necessity
of putting the kibosh on about two of these ap-
plications when they come up for consideration
next week. Then, as thirteen is an unlucky
number, we suppose that the fellow that get-
the thirteenth license will feel like In* is op
crating under a hoodoo.
The movements of the Jefferson County Nav-
igation Board are being watched with consider
able interest by the people of Orange, for on
what that Board does will depend the move-
ment- of the Orange County Board to a large
extent. The < >range County Board has not yet
organized, but will do so as soon as all the mem-
bers can get together, and they may be depend
**d upon to push the matter of deep water de-
velopment just lis rapidly as possible.
The Orange Leader has contributed five dol-
lars toward the cemetery fund in it- town. Evi-
dently Ford believes in making provision for
the future.*—Port Arthur News.
From all accounts there i- a certain other
newspaper paragrapher in Texas that ought to
begin thinking “upon his latter end!" Or
ange Leader.
We already do all our thinking with one end
of us. hut are uncertain as to whether or not
that is the end Ford refers to - Port Arthur
News.
We will leave it to the public to decide.
The hot wave must have affected Ottimrer.
the paragrapher of the Pes Moines Tribune.
Listen to this: “Voting M r. < ’udahy, of < )maha.
is shortly to be married. And in a year or so
he may take great pleasure in watching bl-
own kid. napping. Eh?”—-Allentown, (Pa.)
Democrat.
While the Allentown paragrapher i- trying
to make bis own little bud, wiser, eh?
The Orange leader speaks of a woman by tin
name of Mrs. Lafitte, taking an overdo-** of
carbolic acid. Ford ought to be good enough to
state how much carbolic acid constitutes a dose,
and the people might be able to know what it
takes to constitute an overdose.—Lufkin Trib
une. *'-<'
Now. there you go, a-king'foolish question*-!
We decline to answer.
Up in Wisconsin a man and his wife and three
children fell out of a boat into the lake and the
woman, who was a good swimmer, chose to $ave
her husband rather than her three helph—s chil-
dren. Not many women would do that.—Lufkin
Tribune.
Probably thought if she saved him she could
get more children, but if she let him go she
might never get another husband. Good logic.
Daughters of the Confederacy. They gre doing
a great work there, but. there are some improve-
ments needed, as pointed out in this communica-
tion, which it is hoped the Daughters will un-
dertake without delay.
If we had an enemy whom we would rejoice
to see*tortured beyond endurance, we would en-
deavor to have him marooned on a shell reef
in lake Sabine amongst those billions of fero-
cious, bloodthirsty mosquitoes. A few hours
in that situation ought to be punishment enough
for anybody on this earth.
Lake Charles papers have been bragging
mightily about the good roads in Calcasieu par-
ish, but, judging from reports from the touring
party from Orange and Beaumont, they must
have hid those roads when they heard that Col.
Sapi Park had at last started on hi- long de-
ferred automobile trip.
Cashier Sells, of the Orange National Bank,
estimates that the rice crop in Orange county
tin.- seaVm will put $250,000 in circulation here..
Wish we could capture a small portion of it
right now.
Good roads are great developers. Bad roads
arc killers of progress ami prosperity. Let’s
have good roads in Grange county and invite
hoineseekcrs from the North and West’to come
ami settlc-on our vacant lands ami help to build
up the county.
A lelrnnon manufacturer turned out thirteen
ton- of bologna in nine hours the other day.
That’s stuffing ^une.—Pottsville (Pa.) Miners
Journal.
Also, that’s some stuffing.
According to a special dispatch from Green-
vilie,500 per-on- gave H. Basoornb Thomas “an
ovation” at that place. Well, what of it. Five
thousand persons will give Ringling’s big ele-
phant an ovation when Jumbo visits Green-
vi I It*.—Dallas Times-Herald.
Here’.- a mighty sermon in just a few words,
from th** Lufkin Tribune, that ought to Im* read
by and impressed ii|*on the mind of every pa-
rent who has the welfare of hi- or her child at
heart: “ Htw neck and -hurt sleeves and buggy
rides at n ight go hand in hand ami help to form
the chapter of *A Mutilated Body Found In the
Woods and Abundant Evidence of a Woman’s
Desperate Struggle.’ If takes a long time to
learn the-** things, hut after while people learn
them, that is some jeople learn them.”
Now, w hat do you think of this? Here’s Edi-
tor Gardner, of the Florence Vidette, subscrib-
ing for five hundred dollars worth of railroad
bonds and offering to pay fifty dollars on a
cash bonus fund for a new railroad. Strange,
how some editors manage to accumulate so
much coin all at one time.
Ford says it’s mighty easy to register a kick
against a thing , but a little more difficult to
suggest a remedy. Probably thinking about
those dratted cows again.—Port Arthur News.
A card received by The Leader announces a
new law* firm in Houston cpmprised of Mr. Fritz
M. Dyer and Mr. Stanley A. Beard. The latter
is„a son of Tlios. G.^Beard, the hustling general
freight agent of the Texas & New Orleans rath
road, and his many friends in Orange wish for
the new firm unqualified success, a wish in
which The leader heartily joins.
“Arc you fi Mason?” a-k* the Atlanta (’on
■citation. Probably want- to give the sign of
distre—. owing t*> tin* drouth.
A writer in the Lufkin News begins hi- com-
munication bv a-king "What’s the matter with
starting -omething?” Well, lie can start some-
thing up there, but he mustn’t come down here
in this neck o’ the woods trying to create any
disturbance.
A member of the Georgia legislature having
introduced ;j. hill t<> finalize the playing of base-
ball or football at any -ehool or college char-
tered in that state, the Memphis ('omincrcial
Apjieal takes occasion to remark that “the prize
of a bale of hay to the legislator who makes the
biggot ass of himself naturally and without
dispute g«H*s this year to tin* state of Georgit.”
N. G. States.
McKinney has u meat cutter whose*name is
Million. Meat cutting fV not always an unusu-
ally lucrative business, but in this case we are
quite sure his young son may In* termed a Mill-
ion heir.
Elsewhere in The Leader today is a commu-
nication describing the Confederate Widows’
Home in Austin, which should be of interest to
everyone, and especially to the members of the
By a large majority, yesterday, the voters of
Texas set tin* seal of their condemnation on the
sin of illiteracy and the sloth of ignorance. AH
the school amendments were adopted and this
is as it should Ik*. Educate the children of all |
the people. It is cheaper to build school houses •
and pay teachers than it is to build jails and pay
keepers and guards. It was a great day for
f^rand old Texas.—Dallas Times-Herald.
A great day for Texas, indeed. Now, if we
can just elect a broad, liberal-minded governor,
we can make things move sure enough in Grand
Old Texas. _________
i The steamship Nicaragua is returning from
Mexico for another cargo of lumber. The cargo
^for this trip will be furnished by a lumber con-
leern in Beaumont and the vessel will take on
her cargo at Port Arthur.
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Ford, A. L. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, August 13, 1909, newspaper, August 13, 1909; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth644508/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.