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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1936
Page
7
Aimed at encouraging self improvement and confidence through practice before an audience. Notes enthusiasm for school activities and thanks to manual arts students for building seats for diamondball spectators. Mentions purchases by the Athletic Association to support baseball equipment.
Flora Morley a Mount Dora High School senior is congratulated for winning a five dollar prize in a state run essay contest about The Truth About the World Court The contest was funded by the Woman's Club and Flora's entry advances as one of two from the state to the national competition where the top prize is twenty five dollars.
County contests are scheduled in Tavares on May 2 with high school students from Mount Dora High School entering the events. Students prepare for the great day as they compete in multiple divisions across the county.
A proposed provision seeks a system of medical service funded by public expense for every citizen. The discussion notes support among lawmakers and cites the need for universal access and equitable care across communities.
Doris Grey and others receive stripes and stars for color captaincy while Coralie Cooper is named captain. Miss Meadows commends junior high girls for good work. Coach Vincent praises boys for practice and gives emblems to Beasley Green Green Dooley and others. Roseborough and Kimball praise team after season. A talk on South America follows.
A retro cooking guide suggests using peaches all week from Monday to Sunday. It outlines sparkling fruit cocktails, peach roasts with meat juices, fruit salads, peach muffins, Peach Bavarian, peach desserts, peach caramel pie, Apple and Peach Dumplings, and Sour Cream Peach Tarts with practical prep steps and serving ideas.
Dents describe objects gathered on a recent expedition to South America. A striking checkerboard inlaid with butterfly wings drew admiration, its edges set with tropical woods. Mrs Patrick and Miss Holman head to Mount Dora then Warren to view a private museum.
The document profiles several Mount Dora area seniors including Don Tightnipex an athletic student born in 1918 in Oakland and Doris Grey who moved through Alabama and Florida schools to Mount Dora now 18. It mentions Lurlene Green born 1916 near Atlanta and Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor as favorite stars plus Mary Norton who moved from Alexandria Indiana to Mount Dora and plans a horse farm. The page also records campus social notes about students dating, freedom, and upcoming events with light gossip and relational chatter.
In Mount Dora, chatter swirls about romances and mischief among students. Tales involve Tracy, Blair, David, Flora, Martha, Helyne, Ed Sadler, Ellen Schrup, and others as Friday scripts hint at dates, pranks, and social tensions.
Locals praise Flora Morley and Coralie Cooper as basketball captains. The senior class notes honor Arthur Haskins and Mortimer McDowney for their leadership. Buck Sadler is under watch as rumors surface while April Fool’s pranks unfold around Eustis and Mount Dora.
The junior class met on Friday March 27 to decide whether twenty dollars should be donated to the athletic association after a heated argument. The outcome of the vote is not recorded in the fragment.
Raymond Ellers born April 1, 1898 Fitzgerald Georgia and a University of Georgia 1918 and Columbia Law School 1923 graduate. He served as Municipal Judge Orlando 1926 to 1928 and County Solicitor Orange County since 1929. He is a Democrat advocating old age pensions and federal aid to Citrus Growers for fruit fly losses, pledging best service if elected and urging voters to attend April 16 meeting at Eola Park Orlando.
The class team from Mount Plymouth and Mount Dora pursued a road mystery on a Wednesday trip to Rock Springs. They traced missing gasoline to a point along the route and concluded it had been used elsewhere, earning praise for their investigative work.
A fragment from a senior issue lists sophomore girls anxious about indifference of certain senior gentlemen. The write up questions who Vir Cha favours, notes a junior boy is crazy about her, and wonders about Natalie and Ossie. It also mentions Ruth Beerbower's return to class.
The community greets a new pupil Ann Mathews among the freshman class. Other names appear in the list including Eleanor, Aline Minkley, Helen Grace Driver, Evelyn Gwendo Futral, Ruth Mae Harris, Nel Jame Woodruff, Zera Inez Dean, Eveline Amelia Von Herbulis, Julian Albert Drawdy, Stuart Tees Sadler, Haskel Lee Ferris, Martha Elizabeth Treadwell, Edith Vivian Moore, Lenora Moore, and Shirley Joy oen.
The eighth grade shared a flower shower for Miss Craig on April 1 and welcomed Adelaide Key back after months away. John Fox leaves for West Virginia. The class lists students by initials and nicknames from A to Z, highlighting traits from lively to intelligent and shy to popular.
Celestine Richter and Irene At of the seventh grade have gone back north. Elmer Youngblood had a slight accident playing baseball.
Kerl constructs a five acre tourist camp on U S highway 441 two miles north of Leesburg. The Sarat camp will include cabins a store restaurant and filling station and is expected to be finished in about three months after starting last Wednesday.
The County Tax Adjustment Board approved 570 applications for tax relief last week. Adjustments cover 1934 and 1935 taxes in full and 10 percent of 1932 and earlier delinquent taxes. No reductions for rolls after 1932. Total amount unknown. Property owners have six months to pay the adjusted amount. failure forfeits the adjustment and reverts to full tax.
The Edge Mercantile Co. of Groveland plans major remodeling and new fixtures in its dry goods and hardware stores. L. D. Edge, manager, says ten years of heavy investment end and the low mood is over with business improving and plans to capture more county market share.
Florida traffic inspectors announced 1936 license tags are mandatory for all motorists in the state or those registered there. North Dakota and West Virginia residents may use 1935 tags per their states. Winter visitors must prove their home state tag order to avoid Florida licensing.
At a Tampa meeting last week Gorman was honored. Next year the group will meet in April in St. Petersburg. The association is mainly made up of people who worked on the canal construction.
Readable text notes controlling termites on citrus by Paris green dusting and pruning to remove hollow limbs. The fragment mentions treatment methods involving dusting and cutting away damaged sections of trees.
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