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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 27, 1939
Page
5
Mrs Kilgore won high score at five hundred Mrs Weeks won at auction and Mrs C E Tincher won contract at the regular meeting of the Monday Card Club held in the Community Building A large attendance of ladies was recorded Hostesses for next Monday will be Mrs Ray Blanchard and Miss Mildred Philbreck
Members of Mount Dora Methodist church gathered Tuesday night in the church parlors to honor Reverend and Mrs. Kenneth G. Rogers who were reassigned to the church for another year. A box lunch was served before the social evening.
The Triangle Sub-Deb Club hosts a barn dance at the Mount Dora Yacht Club Friday at 9:30 PM. The event features square dancing, festive decor, and electric phonograph music with optional period costumes for guests.
Mrs J Bryden hosted twelve ladies for a dessert bridge with prizes for first and second place while Mrs Wilson G Smith and others attended. Dr and Mrs Bradley held open house at their Sylvan Shores residence with refreshments and novelty games for guests including numerous local couples and single guests.
Miss Alice Proudman married Donald Sturgeon Cochran at St Johns Church with Rev Carter Harrison officiating. The ceremony featured bridal wreath myrtle candles and Lohengrin chorus recessional. The bride wore her mother’s white silk gown with veil and orange blossoms.
Bert Moberg and Wi Proud tata of Virginia Polytechnic Indructman attended a wedding with the mother of the bride in attendance. Mr and Mrs Cochran planned a wedding trip to New York and then sail for Maracaibo where Mr Cochran works as an engineer for Largo Petroleum Corp. Mrs Cochran wore a gray three piece suit with blue accessories and a rose corsage.
A long list of residents and visitors leave Mount Dora for summer homes in places such as Wayzata Cleveland Bradley Beach Bridgewater Waltham and Ansonia. Others recover in hospitals or join relatives in Florida Virginia and Georgia. The item ends with a quip about manipulating people.
Wallace Beery stars as Sergeant Madden in a police drama about New York’s finest. Alan Curtis plays his rookie son, Tom Brown is the adopted brother, and Laraine Johnson the Irish waif adopted by Beery. Cast includes Fay Holden and Marc Lawrence with technical input from Val O'Toole and direction by Josef von Sternberg.
A mother recounts guiding children in a backyard croquet game to curb fighting and learn good sport, showing that winning matters less than fairness and helping others. She cites Bobby Jones and other athletes to illustrate winning without cruelty and urges parents to model restraint rather than excessive fuss over losses.
The April 24 meeting led by Dorothy Geiger included dancing games songs and stories. Mr Lashar visited and tested the dancing group while Joanne French served as Scribe.
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