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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1934
Page
5
The final dance of the season for the Social Tourist Club will be held next Saturday evening in the Social Room of the Community Building at 8:30. A Woman's Club card party follows tomorrow afternoon at the Yacht Club at 2:30 with contract auction and five hundred. tickets 25 cents. Everyone invited.
The Friendly Club held its annual picnic supper at Trimble Park Monday afternoon. Nineteen attended and enjoyed a bountiful meal, games, and a sunset. Next meeting on Monday with Jean Hendrie.
Mr. and Mrs. F. G. MacMahon entertained at dinner Saturday night at their Alexander Street home followed by a contract bridge session. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. Carl Graves Mr. and Mrs. Armer C. Johnson Mr. and Mrs. T. Holmes Lashar and Mrs. Evelyn McDowell. Mrs. McDowell won the ladies high score prize and Mr. Lasher won the gentlemen’s prize.
Miss Louise Blanchard entertained three tables at a dessert bridge event.
Monday’s event at Dora featured a tiny Easter card game where guests placed. Evelyn McDowell won the high score prize, George Zell was second, and Lois Whitney took the consolation for the low score. Miss Marguerite Sidel hosted auctions on Tremain Street with guests from Sorrento and local residents.
Mrs. William C. Acken of 541 Seventh Avenue East gave a pleasant afternoon tea last Thursday. The house was bright with flowers and twenty ladies attended. Mrs. Acken and family plan to move to Metuchen New Jersey this Thursday.
The last of the series of card parties for the public library has been postponed to Wednesday afternoon April 11 in the Community Building social room at 2 30. The events raise funds for new books and tickets cost 25 cents.
The last meeting of the season will be held Tuesday April 10 at 3 in the Community Building. Officers will present annual reports and unveil the new organization for the coming year followed by a social hour.
An invitation extends to friends of Mr. D. F. Gorham to greet him on his ninety third birthday Saturday April 7 at the home of his daughter Mrs. H. W. Fish Helen and Tenth streets from 3 to 5 p.m. Mrs. Fish hosts an informal tea honoring her father annually and invites all to attend in Mount Dora.
Primary Department teachers staged an Easter egg hunt on the church lawn at Tenth and Tremain streets last Saturday from 3 30 to 5 oclock. Children made a scrap book for ill classmate John Parrish and sent it to him in Lake County Hospital. Delicious refreshments followed the event.
Teachers including Norris Pike Lambert and Miss Kathleen Galloway assisted by Misses Lurleen Green Peggy Norris and Rev Clovis Brant ey hosted an old fashioned hunt for eggs. The Junior Department Easter party for pupils was held at Superintendent Mrs G R Galloway residence and drew a good crowd enjoying the event.
Personal Glen Chapman spent Thursday on a pleasure trip. Dozens of residents and visitors, including Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Ward of Atlanta and Mr. and Mrs. John Treadwell, spent time with Mount Dora families. Sights include European travel plans by J Harold Cozart and others visiting Derby Conn Philadelphia and Marion Indiana. Lake Superior snow and trips to Camden and Newark frame a season of winter departures and homeward journeys.
The Ladies Aid of Sorrento staged A Southern Cinderella with proceeds from advance ticket sales netting a neat sum. The show drew a full Zellwood audience upon repeat performance. Officers elected for the coming year include Mrs. Alice Strite president and Mrs. Victor Lent vice president.
The Home Demonstration Club changes its date to Tuesday April 17 and meets in the Community Building social room. Miss Lucy Belle Settle and Miss Anna Mae Sikes from Tallahassee will present demonstrations in foods and clothing. Forenoon hours 10 to 12, afternoon 2 to 4 with a covered dish luncheon at noon. details from Mrs. Finzel.
Poem muses whether land was once sea with fish and sea creatures living among grasses and flowers. The speaker imagines octopuses whales and songbirds alongside bones of fish and palm leaves, wondering how the sands and sunset came to resemble a sea’s relics.
A devotional passage frames guidance from a shepherd figure guiding faithful steps and moral discipline. It blends spiritual imagery of feeding and guiding sheep with a note on economical production as a farming principle.
Honor roll list for the second semester of the 1933 34 school year at J r Sree School. 7th grade top marks Iris Mae Nolting Patricia Nolting 8th grade Hazel Edwards Theo Green Lois Jerne Natalie Spilky Oscar Stephens Dorothy White Chloe Wingate 9th grade Emily Battle Lee French Dorothy Loveless 10th grade Mortimer McCown Mary Elizabeth Ipson 11th grade Roy Christopher Ruth Harvey Frank Pooser 12th grade Peggy Champ Nelson Morley J D Mosteller Esther Roberts.
Florida citrus shippers received inaugural relief fruit checks totaling about 32 thousand dollars for 172 car shipments at 60.84 cents per box gross with net 45 cents to shippers. The Florida Control Committee notes a larger remaining balance of roughly 47.7 thousand dollars from the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation, with more checks to follow once funds arrive from Washington.
A bank cashier attests the truth of a ledger statement, declaring to the best of knowledge and belief that the listed financial figures are accurate as presented by the bank on record. The clipped text shows a formal sworn affirmation tied to a state financial filing.
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