The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909 Page: 4 of 8
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HE ORANGE LEADER
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THE ORANGE LEADER
LEADER PRINTING COMPANY
Proprietors
L. Ford..............Manager and Editor
Published EveryFriday
AN IMPORTANT ORDINANCE.
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There is a state law in Texas providing for
the recording of vital statistics by the county
clerks, the reports of births and deaths to be
made to them by the attending physicians.
This law js. not being enforced very rigidly,
however, and is almost a dead letter on the
statute books. For the better preserving of
these statistics, the State Board of Health is
endeavoring to interest the city councils of
the state to pass city ordinances governing
the securing of vital statistics. This is a very
important subject and one that should receive
attention from the Orange city council.
The ordinance’specifies that physicians, mid
wives and undertakers are to register with the
city clerk. -To secure the registration ot
deaths, it is provided that no dead body shall
be disposed of until a permit has been ob-
tained from the city clerk, and that the permit
will not be issued until a certificate of death
has been filed. The forms and contents of the
certificate are prescribed and by whom it
shall be filed. It is the form prescribed by the
Federal Government. Very specific directions
are given in the ordinance to the physician as
to how the cause of deatlrshall be stated. 1 in*
mode of obtaining certificates in oase of death
without a medical attendant, is also i" >\ I d
for. As a check upon the undertakers, sextons
are forbidden to inter a body without obtain
ing the permit from the undertaker. I’hysi
ciiuis and midwives, or'if none are present, the
parents are to report births within five days.
Birth certificates must lx* filed although chil-
dren are unnamed at the tine.* of making the
return. Still births are to 1m* returned as both
births and deaths. Ref urn are to be copied by1
•the city clerk on similar forms and preserved
and tIn* originals sent monthly to the, state reg-
istrar. They are to he. bound by the latter and
kept in fireproof vaults and a card index pro
vided.
In a report on the most important uses of
registrations of births and deaths a special
committee on vital statistics on uniform state
laws says: . „.
- Reasons demanding the registration .of
births and deaths, stated in increasing order
of importance, may be given as follows; (1) [
Knowledge of the movement of population1
(demographic' u s); (2) Protection of th •
lives and health of the people (sanitary us*.s);
and (•>) protection of tin*! rights of the individ-
ual and of the community (legal uses).
The propriety of this ordinance may be
riculture because of the broad prairies, and
more rolling surface.
It is a fact that Jefferson and Orange coun-
ties, together with the eastern part of Liberty
county, are in the southern edge of the pine bolt,
but the area of pine timber in this section is but
a fraction of the total area of the whole. Because
Beaumont and Orange are lumber towns the su-
perficial observer jumps to the conclusion that
they are in the: pine woods, while as a matter
of fact they hold their supremacy in the lumber
market through the fact that each is on a river
and that these two rivers are the best from the
standpoint of navigation in Texas. Immense
amounts of timber are brought from the pine
forests to the north to both Beaumont and Or-
ange to be cut. If Beaumont bad depended
alone upon the pine that was found within tin*
borders of .Jefferson county for its mill supply
it would never have been known as a lumber
town.
It is probable that the surface of Orange and
Jefferson counties present a greater variation
than any similar area in the state of Texas. They
have timber land, swamp land and low land;
land that needs drainage and land that floes not.
It is a mistake to think of rice lam? as swamp
land. If rice was planted in swamp land Jeffer
son county would not today have the biggest
rice acreage of any political division ot the
state. The rice farms of today were tlie prairies
of yesterday, and Jefferson, Orange and ('bam
hers counties offer many thousands ot acres ot
these prairie lands, good available farming
lands, rolling ami capable of drainage at a min
imuni of expense, tjjiat are more available for
cultivation than were tin* prairies of Indiana
and Illinois in the Ohio valley. Rice doe- not
want swamp land. It needs irrigation to b«
sure, hut that irrigation must he controlled. If
is just as necessary to yet tin* water off at tin*
proper time as it is to get it on.
ibis idea that has gone forth that the Or
auge-Beunuiout district are low, wet areas that
will grow nothing hut swamp earn* and rice
■> doing incalculable harm and Texas write/-
especially should exercise a care in their stuP
incuts that there rha\ be no injustice done to any
part of the state. Beaumont Enterprise.
mont’s importance and her right to all the
privileges that go with a maritime shipping
point. '
The Leader congratulates Beaumont upon^
securing this recognition and at the same time
would direct the attention of bur Commercial
Club to the fact that Orange is entitled to the
same recognition and we should not hesitate
to go’ after it e'
THE LOWLY PEANUT.
it is only of very recent date that the peanut
has begun to come into its own, but it is now
rapidly taking its place ;>s a staple and profit-
able crop in the South, and there are wonder-
ful opportunities riglitj here in Orange county
for developments along this line. In the Slier
man Democrat we notice a half page advertise-
ment of the Texas Nut company, which has a
big factory at Denison: This'factory handles
from 0,(Kk) to NJHM) bushels of jwauuts per day
and agrees to buy ail tin* peanuts that are of-
fered.
(*vt r at Opelousas, La., tin* other day a buyer
endeavored to contract for a carload of pea
.|Uuts, but the farmers were unable to supply
He offered fifty dollars per ton for the
him
questioned, because, in this country especially, j peanuts, provided a carload could be made up.
It is estimated there that two tons of pea-
nuts can be harvested from an acre of ground.
the1 sanitary uses of vital statistics have quite*
overshadowed their importance -as legal re
cords. Modern public health administration
is intimately dependent upon reliable mortal-
ity statistics, and registration offices are us-
ually under the direction of state or etiy
hoards of health. Modern sanitation itself is
a child of vital statistics, and the beginning of
national registration of1 births and| deaths in
England in 18JH, marked tin* commencement
of the “sanitary era” in which we live, and
which is yearly witnessing greater triumphs
in the conquest of disease. Nevertheless, the
registration of Vital Statistics was not primar-
ily instituted for purposes of public health,
hut to secure proper, records of the vital events
of human life for legal purposes; and in the
long run, this is perhaps the most inioprtant
service performed by a system of governmental
registration. It may he noted that the one-
sided development of vital statistics in the Un-
ited States is partly due to the fact that for
sanitary purposes, the registration of deaths
has been considered more important than the
registration of births, and hence the latter has
been seriously neglected.
MISLEADING INFORMATION.
E. P. Stiles, writing in the Texas Realty
Journal of the Beaumont-Orange district of
Texas, shows unfamiliarity with the country of
which he writes. While intended for a fair re-
le of conditions in this section, yet the con-
i drawn are unfair enough to do harm if
without correction. He places
the pine belt, and says that rice
id intimates that this is
at present because
the Houston-
We are not familiar with the peanut production
in Orange county, hut.feel sure that if two tons
to the acre is an average yield in the Opelousas
country, fully that much, or more, could be se-
cured in Orange county, for tin* soil in soon*
parts of this county is especially adapted to
peanut culture.
No one here lias attempted the cultivation of
peanuts on a large scale, but those who have
tried it in a small way have been very successful.
This is just another opportunity )'<>i 4 In * de
velopment of our agricultural lands that has
never been taken advantage of, but which lies
open for some enterprising farmer, who can
make a fortune in this way.
RECOGNIZED AS A PORT.
The Philadelphia Evening Times has asked
about fifty automobile owners of Philadelphia
to place ^heir cars at the disposal of thr* Times
on the day before Christmas for the purpose of
distributing to the ]>oor eliiidren in all part*-of
Jbe city, toys and Christinas presents of all
kinds that have been gathered together through
the efforts of the paper. It is proposed to visit
every nook and corner of the city and bring
elmer to the homes of the poor children, as well
as to the little sufferers in the hospitals and
asylums. This is the kind of charity that
counts.
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It is gratifying to the Leader to learn that
Secretary Shepherd, of tin* Commercial Club,
had already gotten busy* on the question of get
ting Orange recognized in Southwestern Tariff
No. 27, same ns Beaumont, before tin* paper
came out yesterday evening with tin* suggestion
that it ought to ft# done. Mr. Shepherd i- dig
ging right in after these freight rates and In* is
finding some mighty queer tilings, too. For in-
stance, one firm in Orange this season has
bought six solid carloads of a certain feedstuff,
shipped from a Louisiana point, flu* rate to
Orange* on this feedstuff is Jo cents per 1(H)
pounds, the rate to Beaumont from tin* same
point on tin*, same commodity is 10 eent.*--and
tured and shipped by the Lutcher & Moore
Lumber company, who have been advised bv the
contractors that the decking manufactured by
them £<j>r use in the United States battleships is
the finest lumber ever delivered to the ship
yards.
The Southwestern Farmer, rejuvenated, rt*
organized, with new, rich blood in its veins, is
one of the latest exchanges to reach the Leader.
R. R. Claridge, a well known writer on farm
topics, is editor and a strong organization is,
hack of the paper. Located in the new Chroni-
cle building in Houston, with its own equip-
ment, Southwestern Farmer is starting out on
a new career of usefulness and long life. The
leader wishes it unbounded success.
Among the special Christmas numbers that
have reached the Leader during the past few
days was the Holiday Edition of the Abilene
Reporter, issued last Sunday. It contained
forty-four pages, with a beautifully lithograph-
ed magazine cover, and was brim full of good
things. Abilene is a live town and the Reporter
is a live newspaper.
The Carthage Register, M Un Margie Neal edi-
tor, came out in holiday attire last week, the pa-
per having a handsome lithographed cover and
■ight pages ify^dc. Mis> Margie Neal is a prom-
inent figure in East Texas journalism and is do-
ing valiant work for the upbuilding of that par-
ticular section of East Texas in which she is lo-
cated. The ('hri'tmas edit ion of the Register
was a very creditable one, indeed.
Ill i "II l ip-/ • II. ' ; ;irt tlm* -i,X
the rate to Houston 1 1 cents. Isn’t ii about moving from Arkansas to Timpeon
time that Orange was beginning to look after this week. Thnt’s the wav to fill up a country,
lu*r inti rest:- on thi.-. freight rate matter? and that’s what < (range hm got to do before she
i--—-—- Joan ever hope to build up rapidly. Fill-up the
Editor Lutterloh, of the Newton News*, hands J country precinct*. with pro-qx un-, industrious
the Leader the following nice compliment, farmers and the city will build tip as a natural
which wo reproduce, not for our own benefit, ■ result. I s*t\s keep the development of our agri*
but .just ax an iustanee of how people on the ]cultural resources well to the front in our work
outside recognize tin advantage accruing to.(M I for Orange.
ange from a live daily news-paper published ------ ----
here: “Tin* Orange Daily Leader has mounted | dimply good for the sore eyes to *ee the
another rung on the ladder of perfection xhej jimpson Times these dnt". The “little daily”
having, made arrangements to give her many is simply eh tick full of display advertising, and
readers the up-to-date news service of the As shows Tnnpson up in a splendid light. When-
ever von see a paper fUkd with,advertisements
of the local merchants, you just naturally say
to yourself, “there’* an up to-date, progressive
town, all right.” . ■
soeiated Press. FordJs a genius and if Orange
will stand by him lie’ll be one of the ring lead
era in introducing to the people of the state—
another Houston.”
We note from the Enterprise that the “Beau
moat waterway” was well advertised by Col.
Davidson in Washington, and that the Rivers
and’Harbors Committee was made thoroughly
acquainted with the fact that Beaumont had is-
sued bonds for the purpose of assisting the gov-
ern men t in completing this waterway. Of ithat the Gratis promoters arc interesting in this]
course, Orange hasn t any kick eornin r, though, jsection.
If she wanted to be recognized in the matter,
-he ought to have sent a representative to Th(i Ujldrr ,|Un its ,.ar to tb„ ruini(,
Washington. We rather suspect, though, that . ... . ....
Col. Davidson -uid a *...... word for Drango /„ *“• »' **»“ «* " " il™r T*"*"* ■«'*"
his talk, even if the Beaumont papers wouldn’t al'<'Ut that new railroad v*> will tell our read)
say* ho.
The Sau Augustine Tribune states that Bee
I’he iii n who are. boosting the new town of
Gratis in Orange county an* live wires and are
doing a work that will result beneficially to
both the town and county of Orange. Orange
ri.ci- imu'c !■«->!< •, 11..,ipi* from inner|
sections of the country, and it is these people
Dll'll
man Strong, of Nacogdoches, hasT decided not
to make the race for state senator against Cap j
tain Kellie, of Jasper, having something better j
in view. We understand that Hon. Walter J. j
Crawford, of Beaumont, has been urgently so
lieited to make the race for state senator. Judge
Crawford would make a splendid representative
in the upper house from tliis district.
We are sorry the weather clerk was so ill
mannered to our visitors from up the country
Saturday, but, really, it was not our fault. A
hundred or more people from along the line of
the Orange A: Northwestern canfe to Orange,
but the weather was so fearfully inclement they
could not him* Orange at her best—and the car-
nival was just about froze out.
The Philadelphia Evening Times, which is
published every evening, Sunday included, has
of> about it.) It's almost a certainty, though!
that < h’ange' will have another trunk line o|
railroad before the end of another year.
The Sherman Daily Democrat issued a Christ
mas manlier of forty pages last Saturday tim
was brim full of tin* kind of matter tliht oipe
eiaily interests the hu»ii***ss office display n<
vertising. Inh rsj*ers-d with the advertisinJ
was a plentiful amount of reading matter, niuej
of it being nn epitome of the good tilings thi
Sherman has and expects to have. It wasj
creditable edition in every way.
Under the above caption, the Beaumont En-
terprise says:
It will interest the merchants of Beaumont just celebrated its first anniversary and Frank
interested in the import business to learn that A. M tin soy, the publisher, says it’s a lusty
the Southwestern Lines tariff, No. 27, which youngster, growing fast and has a bright fu-
ture. It was a bold stroke to blaze out a new,
is the standard authority of all lines on im-
port rates through Texas jiorts, has been a-
tneuded to read ‘‘from Beaumont,” and rates
on such commodities as have been requested
up to this date will lie printed in the publica-
tion. This information has been conveyed to
the Chamber of Commerce by W. R. 8. Barker,
commercial agent of the Santa Fe.
This is a recognition of Beaumont as an iin
field by publishing a Sunday evening news-
paper, hut Munsey is a pioneer in the publish-
ing business, not afraid to blaze out a
path.
A noticeable tiling around the county clerj
office is that there lias been but one marrii
license issued so far this month, and this is
holiday month, too. The question 'naturail
arises, ‘‘what on earth is the matter!” Arou*
oh, you sleejiers.—Lufkin News.
Sun*. Wake up and get busy.
Santa Clauif tells us that he could dump a
of coal in (*iH*ii Pottsville girl’n stocking. 1)
in Orange, Texas, a lead pencil usually fills
stocking.—Allentown (Pa.) Democrat.
They are the shapeliest and best looking
pencils we ever saw.
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new
The big new battleship Utah, one of the latest
monster jsca fighters being built by Uncle Sara,
S71wi!hrthe“dLp,4 oMlT'cESs and willta: launched tomorrow A matter into*
Beaumont’s struggle to become a maritime ®st to Grange connected with this event is that
city, with a commerce of its own. The rail- all of the yellow pine decking in this ship was
have by this act, recognized
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all of the yellow pine decking in tins snip was
manufactured in Orange, having been manufac-
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With Judge Brooks in the race for govi
of Texas the campaign will not be dry.-
town (Fa.) Democrat.
Paradoxical as it may seem, it is really
by his adherents that with Brooks as
Texas will go “dry.”
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Ford, A. L. The Orange Leader (Orange, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 44, Ed. 1 Friday, December 24, 1909, newspaper, December 24, 1909; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth645572/m1/4/?q=%22~1~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Lamar State College – Orange.