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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 02, 1942
Page
5
The Home Demonstration Club will meet Wednesday April 8 at 2 30 p m in the Community Building Topic Clothes for Spring The Ladies Aid meeting is postponed one week to April 10 at 10 30 with a pot luck lunch at the church program location remains the same It is a Good Friday schedule adjustment.
The Ocklawaha Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will hold a meeting at 2 30 this Thursday afternoon at 593 East First Avenue hosted by Mrs Adam Hazelwood. All visiting D A R members are cordially invited to attend.
Mrs Henry W Land entertained at cards Saturday afternoon for Mrs Glenn Brown who visited from Winter Haven. Other guests included Mrs J G Ray Jr Mrs Millard Reid Mrs R V Parker Mrs Travis Slaydon Mrs Harry Clark Mrs G B Hurlburt and Mrs David S Simpson Jr.
Mr and Mrs Arthur A Tanner hosted a buffet supper Sunday at Wes avenue home honoring Major and Mrs Paul L Martin who arrived from Fort Bragg and are staying in the D F Crane house on Alexander Street Pink azaleas adorned the dining tables with similar small vases at card tables Attending included A A Tanner, Major and Mrs Martin, Dr and Mrs Colley, Fletcher Crane, and George Kieller
Misses Laura and Belle Mc Lane hosted Mount Dora friends Monday at their Ninth Street home for cousins Mr and Mrs L Alcorn of Youngstown Ohio. Guests played cards and Chinese checkers with prizes awarded in bridge five hundred and Chinese checkers.
The Staff Assistants host a Friday evening dance at the Yacht Club for Orlando Air Base men. Forty Mount Dora hostesses greet guests arriving 7 30 pm with dancing until 11 pm. Men depart for the base by midnight. Sandwiches cookies and punch served.
Mrs Matthias Caley entertained a small group at her East Seventh avenue home for a dessert bridge. The parlor garden was decorated with pansies. Guests included Mrs George DeMuth Mrs Forrest Clowes Mrs Earl Beebe Mrs H Evans Mrs A H Dickey Mrs Clare Purdy Mrs M Shepard Mrs M L Tower Miss Laura McLane Miss Belle McLane Mrs James Clark Mrs A Shhonberger Vi Fink Mrs J H Byaon Ms Jeannette Babcock Mrs George Wil Mrs Diamond and Mrs J Pur ly.
Mrs. George DeMuth, president of the Monday Social Club, entertained members with a delightful afternoon party featuring special prizes and delicious refreshments.
Mrs A Schonenberger and Mrs J C Mills shared high score prizes while Mrs Johnson and Mrs Ray Blanchard earned other top notes. Pinochle is discontinued for the season. Next Monday the club holds its final luncheon at one followed by activities at 2 15. Hostesses include Mrs Clare Mrs D Ten Broeck and Mrs Ray Blanchard with Mrs Frank Drake for contract and Miss Iva Buck for five hundred.
Rufus E Rowland Jr. wed on Friday the 13th of 1942 at Elkton Maryland in the home of Mr and Mrs John Groom Con stable Clover Hill Elkton with Rev J Warren Albinson officiating. A wedding luncheon followed and the couple departed for a Western Pennsylvania trip and will live in Seaford Delaware where the groom works for the Du Pont Company. The bride is the daughter of Mr and Mrs Roy S Wolford of Wilkinsburg Pennsylvania and formerly assisted Dr S C Colley as a nurse in Mount Dora during 1940 41. The groom is the son of Mr and Mrs Rufus Emory Bowland of Richmond Virginia.
Mount Dora Chapter No. 103 held Friends Night with sixty members as visiting officers filled most stations. The event featured a The Temple of Friendship ceremony, golden key thermometers, and a $37 cafeteria fund for the building and projects.
Mrs Mildred Hull and Mrs David H Brockett spend the week in Miami and Key West. Mr and Mrs James C Clark left Sunday for Browns Mills New York after a winter at 527 Seventh Avenue. Lieut William Stewart is home on a short leave visiting his mother and sister Mrs Ben Carr and Mrs Cecil
Rev E J Daniels heads a Radio Revival series on WSUN St Petersburg Sundays at 5 30 PM addressing the question why an all wise all powerful God allows war. The program features unusual music from Stetson University and the Famous Colored Choral Club Revival Quartette and urges listeners to pray for victory and invite others to tune in.
Mr and Mrs Wm T Petterson left Tuesday for Amber Pennsylvania following their annual winter sojourn at the Lakeside Inn.
Mr and Mrs James H Brydon left Monday for La Grange Illinois after weeks at the Hotel Mount Dora. Mrs F H Begole Lloyd Eason of Atlanta stopped in Mount Dora en route to Orlando to visit his mother Carrie Jones. Mrs Larenny Dixon returned to Perry Georgia after a week with her mother Mrs L J Crawdy Sr. Mr and Mrs Belden Crane returned to Mount Kisco New York after wintering on East Eighth Avenue. Mrs A H MacKenzie leaves Friday for Bridgeport Connecticut after wintering at her Mount Dora home. Emma Wheeler Beers and S W Gledhill depart for Bridgeport Connecticut after winter at Villa Dora Hotel. H H Swift and family left Mount Dora for Chester New Hampshire. Gerald Drawdy of USS Ranger and Miss Fredie Eckstine of Eustis were six o clock dinner guests of Nettie Lewis and Lilah Spooner in Eustis.
Mr and Mrs George H Pea return home to Sylvan Shores after a two or more week stay at Daytona Beach. L J Drawdy Jr and family plan a Perry Ga visit and then Macon Ga to join a war production plant job. Natalie Spilky visits with four University of Georgia friends lady guests. Carey Colley spending mid year leave from Columbia Military Academy with parents. Kennedy and Downs families tour Fort Bragg area to greet Lem Downs before front. Mrs Carrie Jones, Mount Dora alumna, recuperates at Orange General Hospital Orlando after several operations and transfusions. She invites Mount Dora friends to visit.
Mrs J E Driver visited Orlando with Mrs John Rowland. Donald Beck left to resume studies at Georgia Tech. Billy Edwards and a Bolles School guest stayed with Mrs J Stewart Edwards. The William Jones Memorial Class met at Carroll and/ Mrs Pugh’s home with several couples present. Mrs Earl White’s son Marvin Earl Jr born March 29 at Lake County Medical Center. Rex Hall's wife left for Panama City for work. Miss June Morton from Orlando visited grandparents Mr and Mrs John L Morton. Ina Mae Flynn of Eustis visited Mrs Byron Reiff. Mr and Mrs John McDonald plan to move to Orlando. Mr and Mrs C W Pass of Alabama visit Mr and Mrs Joseph Shaw.
The verse paints a lush scene where bees wander the green aisles and a Mocker and Cardinal fill the air with song. A Jay and a butcher bird add rustle and chatter, while a snake and a barb provide a grim note to nature’s chorus.
A Sunday afternoon program at the Community Building featured Forresta James Bowman as soloist and Portia Demetria Duhart on piano. The Wise Orchestra provided preludes, with Bowman’s concert and Duhart’s poetry readings praised as high quality. Sponsored by Mrs Arthur N Stowe, the event drew music lovers and wide acclaim.
Mr Walter C Kennedy a longtime Chief Engineer at a Philadelphia steel plant died following an operation at his Llanerch area home his wife and four sons survive he was father to Robert and Jack who visited grandparents in the area.
We thank neighbors and friends for beautiful flowers cards and kindness after the loss of our husband and father. Mrs L J Drawdy Sr Mrs Luranny Dixon L J Drawdy Jr James Drawdy Julian Drawdy Jerald Drawdy Elizabeth Drawdy
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