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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1932
Page
2
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church will hold a fitness meeting in the annex Friday at 2 30. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will meet at the Community church chapel on Monday May 2 at 3 p m.
A community dance will be held in the social rooms of the Community Building Saturday night from 8 30 to 11 30. Good music is promised and everyone is cordially invited to attend.
The last Friendly club gathering of the season met Monday at Mrs. Henry W. Banks’s Grandview Street home. Twelve members attended and enjoyed an afternoon of fancy work followed by dainty refreshments.
Miss Emma E. Leavenworth hosted a dessert bridge for the Good Times club on Monday at her home. The event honored her sister Mrs. J Henry Robinson of Seattle as house guest. Two tables played contract bridge and the prize went to Mrs. A C Quixley.
Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Cooley hosted a Thursday evening bridge party at their Sylvan Shores home. Four tables played with high score prizes to Mrs. Thomas Cooley and Mr. J. G. Ray, guest prizes to Mrs. James Simpson and Mr. Harold Coleman, followed by an ice cream course.
The regular monthly meeting of the Business and Professional Women's Club will be held in Room 5 of the First National Bank Building on Monday May 2 at 7 30 p m Plans for a proposed stunt night and other club business will be discussed All members and others interested are invited to attend.
Mrs C Raymond Young hosted a surprise birthday bridge evening at her Tenth Avenue home for her husband Mr Young. Prizes went to Mrs Adam Hazelwood Mr Philip Bachert and Mr Adam Hazelwood. Other guests included Mr and Mrs W E Lackey Mrs Philip Bachett J J West and Miss Betty West. A salad cake and coffee followed.
Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Parker entertained guests at a five hundred party Saturday evening at their Grandview Street home. Three tables were used for play with refreshments served after the progressions. Attending were Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Banks Mr. and Mrs. I. Ronsheim Mr. and Mrs. George Wilson Dr. and Mrs. G. L. Hanscom Mrs. Alta Stevens Mrs. Van Dyke Mr. Frank Lawrence and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Parker.
About twenty five Mount Dora and Tangerine ladies joined Mrs E J Banks for a Tuesday afternoon card party at her Blue Lake Eustis home to aid the Eustis Episcopal church. Ninety guests attended and prizes were won by Mrs Josephine Simpson and Mrs Fred MacMahon from the Mount Dora group.
Mrs. C. J. Palmer entertained the Delta Pakka Kard club in the Grill room of the Mount Dora Hotel. Two tables played bridge. prizes went to Mrs. Raymond Daniels, Mrs. George Wheeler, and Mrs. Grady Cooley. Guests received farewell gifts from the hostess as prizes. A salad course, cake, and tea concluded the afternoon.
The King's Daughters gathered Tuesday evening with 24 members present. Mayor Hanscom attended and urged plans to raise funds for Welfare work this summer, with details to follow. A birthday party is planned for May 10 at Miss Betty West's home, and attendees should bring a ten cent gift for the grab bag.
The Misses MacLane hosted a small card party at 347 Ninth Avenue on Tuesday evening April 19 with three tables in play. Florida flowers adorned the house and guests included Professor and Mrs D D Roseborough Dr and Mrs M Wells Dr and Mrs H T Fenn Miss Alice Ayers and couples Thomas H Cooley and B D Thayer. The hosts have enjoyed eight winters in Mount Dora and plan to return next year.
A Friday afternoon at the Grandview Street home of Mrs. E. D. Parker hosted over 50 Community church ladies for a porch party with guessing games and fancy work. The event featured gifts for Mrs. Philip Bachert and a prize for Mrs. Grant Cowles. The same evening the Art League staged a puppet show with shadow picture Muggins Mouse Cinderella costumes and musical numbers by local performers.
Mrs. Ernest Martin and Miss Fannie Noonan hosted a refined Saturday afternoon tea at Villa Evans. They welcomed Mrs. George B. Merrill of Yarmouth Maine for a genteel gathering during her winter visit.
In Mount Dora a tea hosting event featured a yellow and white color theme with a scrutinized tea table. Mrs. Adam Hazelwood and Miss Elizabeth Conant assisted, inviting many local ladies and friends. A separate reception honored Rev. and Mrs. G Leon Wells arriving from Hialeah to lead the Methodist pastorate, hosted by the Ladies Aid Society with musical numbers and several officers in attendance.
The Woman's club met Tuesday afternoon with a Literature Department program. Mrs. W. S. Cadman reviewed James Hilton's And Now Good-Bye, then a reading of The First Mrs. Fraser by St. John Ervine was staged with named cast members. Hosts for the event were Mrs. J. Wilson Smith, Mrs. Harold Overhiser, Mrs. E. Wilmot and Miss Madeleine Milner. The season's final meeting will be Tuesday May 10 with annual reports and officer installation.
A formal reception on Monday at 7:30 p.m. marks the tenth anniversary of Prof. D. D. Roseborough's tenure as principal of the public school. A committee chaired by Mrs. R. N. White coordinates the event at the Community Auditorium with a program of community songs and platform sponsors representing faculty alumni pupils city churches parents P T A trustees and business and resident groups.
A long list of residents and winter guests depart for northern homes after spending the season in Mount Dora and nearby towns. Names include Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Daniels, Ed Mather, Mrs. Lena Hoffman, the Hanscoms, the Boyces, Rev. and Mrs. Miller, Dr. and Mrs. Wells, Mrs. Cunningham, the Tuttles, and others traveling to Massachusetts, Vermont, New York, Maine, and New Jersey. Several attend events such as the State Aviation meet in Orlando. others plan summer trips to Buffalo, Allegheny State Park, and Chicago as they close the Dora season.
The tropical Queen's Wreath vine is in bloom on the south side of Mrs. Zell's residence at McDonald Street and Tavares Road. Mild winter and protective winds have allowed it to flourish, producing large double blue clusters with violet-like centers. Bees crowd the blooms, sometimes pulling out inner violet parts while blossoms stay perfect.
The guide urges lean meats fish poultry eggs and cheese as muscle building staples to strengthen resistance to disease. It advises eggs daily for children and allocating 15 to 20 cents of a five part food budget to meat fish and eggs. It includes cheese as meat substitute and several recipes using fish eggs cheese and milk with simple baking methods.
The Apalachicola river marks the dividing line in Florida where the state holds the nation's largest nar cissus bulb farm. Florida also contributes about ten percent of the U S supply of cypress lumber used in building purposes.
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