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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1931
Page
6
The council votes to stop paying firemen attending fires outside city limits. Only if ordered by the Fire Committee chairman or the mayor will compensation occur. Mount Dora cites funds limits and proposes equipment use or owner-paid arrangements for neighbor fires. The move aims to conserve local tax dollars while safeguarding city water protection and property inside limits.
Dr Woodley urged a committee of ten men and women from diverse occupations to study their fields and present both pros and cons to help youths choose a life work intelligently. Mothers were asked what they want for daughters at 35, emphasizing health education church activity and steady marriages. Mount Dora Kiwanis reported 100 percent International attendance planning trips to Miami Beach with names of guests and organizers.
Definite steps taken at 1500 dollars. Chas Edgerton and W J Howey underwrote 300 for Lake county and will ask citizens to contribute. The Lake county delegation at the meeting included Howey Edgerton Brown Raymond Skiles D E Bivins W B Gibson Paul T Harber Gilbert Leach and Mayor Rogers of Leesburg.
Colonel Raymond Robins, a veteran of war who shifted to antiwar activism, toured the Transcontinental and European circuits in 1923 advocating outlawry of war. He served as vice chairman of the American Committee for the Outlawry of War from 1925 to 1927 and held the vice presidency of the Committee of 1,000 for Law Observance and Enforcement.
Frances Siegel and Loreen Cronwalt star with Fenn Mary Louise Rehbaum and Prof Wise on violin. Gorman leads the orchestra with Waldmann’s performances as the only local talent. The production is praised as a Florida premier directed by a prominent New York actor and stage director with classic English speaking plays. Tickets available at all drug stores.
Council extends the deadline to May 1 to pay taxes without penalty of 6 percent. Winter Garden prepares for the season with about 1,000,000 boxes of citrus shipped from the area.
Mount Dora's theatre manager H M Johnson promotes an upcoming week of features including Pardon My Gun a western action film on Saturday Tolstoys Resurrection a talkie on Sunday and Monday with Lupe Velez and John Boles Follow The Leader starring Ed Wynn Ginger Rogers and Stanley Smith on Tuesday and Wednesday and The Naughty Flirt with Alice White on Thursday and Friday Surprises promised for Mount Dora patrons and local notices follow involving bank openings and land notices.
An old Mount Dora Pharmacy advertisement touts Rat Snap as odorless poison for rats and mice. It claims pests avoid the bait, with 35 cent cake sizes for pantries and kitchens and 65 cent cakes for chicken houses and small buildings. It notes nationwide farm and storage building use.
Gainesville Florida September 17 1929 notice states O L Callahan president of Pine Crest Inc filed on January 26 1929 in the appropriate records. The notice outlines the corporate action and authority under which the filing was made and provides the formal identification of the parties involved.
The article argues investors face gloom in stocks bonds and real estate but highlights Central Florida and its citrus industry as a bright spot with potential high returns. It promotes Central Florida Fruit Farms Inc and Montverde citrus property as the right investment, while urging local pride and publicity for Mount Dora through university and church activities.
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