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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1928
Page
7
Society notes list numerous winter visitors and residents of Mount Dora leaving for homes in New York Michigan Connecticut Ohio and New Jersey. The column records trips to Chapua N Y Logan Ashington D C Sayville Greens Farms and other places while others plan motorboat or train travel and extended stays with relatives and business travel.
Residents and visitors depart Mount Dora after winter stays. Toledo guest Mrs Alfred Pulford plans a return next year. Others head home from Massachusetts New York Iowa Florida and Ohio as local events wrap up including a high school banquet at Villa Dora hotel.
The family expresses deep gratitude for kindness, sympathy, and support during the illness and death of their wife and mother Helen Gallimore. They refer to Charles Gallimore and acknowledge the extended circle of friends who offered comfort.
Mr and Mrs George W Coffi rejoice in the birth of a son named John Pingry on Thursday morning.
Mount Dora resident Mrs Myra Houghton summarizes current American art debates at a Mount Dora Art League meeting. She notes the 123rd annual Pennsylvanian Academy show features 346 paintings and 136 sculptures by 347 artists, with praise for Lillian Westcott Hale and Robert Henri, and reflects on growing national culture and public interest in art.
Dr. Howard A. Kelly of Johns Hopkins will headline a mass meeting at Orlando Municipal auditorium next Sunday at 2 30 pm. The event promotes a non-denominational religious center with a Bible Training Institute and a day of thanksgiving declared by city officials.
The speaker foresees a later rise of real art in America and predicts Americans will grasp beauty as foreign critics and artists note present loneliness. Henri cites George Bellows as a loss to the creative world and urges facing national potential without depreciation.
HAL NEW ESSEX P W Turrentine the local A C L station agent drives a new Essex coach purchased through the C C Dooley agency.
Mount Dora theater announces John Barrymore in Don Juan with vitaphone music as the winter climax. The film, once shown in Atlanta, is hailed as a standout program in the current run.
Notes of the game detail Tavares beating Ocoee 8 to 1 and Winter Garden's 11 to 1 win over Clermont while Winter Park defeated Apopka 8 to 3. Homer Morris earned applause for a late eighth inning single and stolen base. Upcoming trips include Dora to Winter Park and a Monday game to Tavares.
Special trains operated from surrounding towns to accommodate crowds for the screening of a famed love story starring Barrymore and a superb cast. More than six million advance tickets were sold in 34 cities, marking it as a premier entertainment. The film premieres here on April 16, 17 and 18.
Emory J. Close of Ta vares announces his candidacy for county surveyor in the Democratic primary on June 5. A civil engineer licensed by the state board, he served as assistant county engineer from 1922 to 1928 and prepared a Lake county base map and soil survey for the U S department of agriculture. A World War I veteran, he served two years overseas with the Third Division and is currently a captain in the Engineer Reserve as assistant to the chief of military intelligence.
A Ford touring car owned by A. J. Camp was stolen on March 24 while he attended services at the Baptist church and has not yet been recovered. Mr. Camp requests information about the vehicle’s whereabouts.
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