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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1945
Page
5
The Pythian Sisters met in Racine with good attendance. An interesting meeting was followed by a social hour. The next gathering is planned for May first with two new members to be initiated. Visiting Sisters are welcome.
Members are invited to attend a chapter program featuring yearly reports and the election of officers. Hostesses include Miss Allen and Mesdames Cowart Simpson Land and Sadler.
The newly elected wheel will be during the business session. It is the last meeting of the week and a large attendance is urged. Visitors are welcome.
Four tables of Bridge and five hundred were on hand for the Monday card party in emcogpee A Building. Mrs. De Muth and Mrs. Fra Dek were ill and absent from the business meeting led by Mrs. J. L. Cooper. Next week's session closes the 1944-45 season with games starting at 2:15 PM.
Doris Estelle Cowart daughter of Mr and Mrs M F Cowart of Sorrento and Charles T Jones Jr of Oxford NC wed in Rev E L Smiths Oxford Methodist church home on Thursday April 12. Bride wore powder blue suit with black hat blue trim and pink rose bouquet. Mrs Jones is a Mount Dora 1940 graduate and trained in St Louis while Mr Jones served two years with the Merchant Marine and ships delivering ammunition from North Africa to Italy. She plans to reside in Oxford while his ship remains at Norfolk.
Personal notices list residents leaving for seasonal summers in Glen Ridge New Jersey Keno sha Wisconsin New Mass Easton Maryland Wol laston Mass Ambler Pa Jacksonville New Haven Conn Eustis Manchester N H Miami Hollywood and other locales Mrs J L Lotz and family host visitors Mrs David Brockett returns to New Haven after wintering at 620 Fifth Avenue Mrs J J Alvord recovering after surgery at Water man Memorial Hospital Mrs Paris E Miler heads to Manchester NH for summer and Rena Bouterse returns from trips to Miami and Hollywood
A stream of Mount Dora residents depart for summer homes and distant locations. Couples including Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Bigelow and Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Brock head to Vermont and Connecticut while Mrs. Minna E. Hegeman returns from the west. Others plan future returns or extended visits, with several travelers bound for Florida and the Midwest.
Friends and relatives note plans for a fall return to spend the winter in Mount Dora likely at a hotel. Several locals travel for visits, including Miss West leaving Bridgeport for California and Jean Able improving after hospital care.
Lieutenant J. L. High travels from Sorrento toward Miami for ten days and may proceed to Canoe Field Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Doehla shift residence from Kansas City after two weeks visiting relatives. Mrs. Yates Kennedy and two children visit E. C. Porter’s family. Mrs. Knight returns from Orange General Hospital to O. C. Wilcox’s home. Rev. and Mrs. Sutherland visited Mrs. Steenberg Allen and Mrs. Welch and son Harold Welch leave Detroit for winter in Mt. Plymouth. Mrs. Welch’s Detroit ties end as she sells property to Rochester couple, and Pochettino family plans move from Apopka road to a New Jersey woman’s home.
Mrs Bobbie Williams bought property at Mt Plymorth and moved into a new home. Mr and Mrs Wienmann from Patterson New Jersey and New Berlin New York, with Walter Wienmann, left for their homes last Thursday and plan to return next fall. E C Porter Mrs Kennedy and two children left for Utica New York area, with plans to visit South Carolina briefly. Abby and Laura Flint left for Wisconsin with plans to visit Virginia for a few weeks.
General Manager Ralph Bradford writes to the Lake County Chamber of Commerce denouncing royalty demands in music and coal sectors as private taxation. The U S Chamber supports S 754 limiting employer and employee representative payments, urging local reaction by April 16 for national consideration.
Frank R. Hammett reports Lake County hosts a range of medicinal plants including snake root cassia camphor cinnamon lemon sweet orange jimson weed cotton sweet gum spearmint peppermint horsemint long leafed pine mandrake pomegranate castor bean saw palmetto and vanilla bean. He notes saw palmetto berries yield oils resins and sugars for sedatives and diuretics and that dog wood astr ingent and tonics derive from jimson weed diuretics emmenogogues from snake root and other preparations.
The senior class presents Do Re Mi a musical comedy at the Community Building tomorrow night. Tickets likely available at school office and from senior cast members.
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