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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1939
Page
5
Phyllis Blanchard and Richard Hartley of Apopka were married at 4 p.m. Sunday, July 23, at the Blanchard home in Mount Dora. Rev. Findley Edge officiated with relatives present. Attendants were Mrs. C. H. Tucker and best man Jack Cunningham. Mr Blanchard gave the bride away and the couple departed for a short wedding trip.
A pair announced they will establish residence in Apopka, taking up a new home there and beginning life in the central Florida city.
About forty attendees from the Methodist Ladies Aid Society held a Friday evening pot luck at Lake Joanna to farewell Mrs Minnie M rs of Indianapolis visiting her son Rev Kenneth G Rogers. Cantional Ladies Aid joined, gifts were presented, and Mrs Rogers spoke on prayer and personal consecration. A quiz contest led by Mrs Waltz added interest.
Mrs. George Dahlin returned from a three week visit in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. David S. Simpson Jr. are in North Carolina and Alan. Mr. and Mrs. Millard Reid visited Cairo Georgia with baby son Charles. Grant Cowles recovered from a serious illness. Fred Greek and family visit daughter Mrs. George Malone in Bradenton Florida. J W Seckinger on two week theater vacation in Tampa. Cecelia and Harvey Palmer visit uncle H J Wise in Dallas. Jessie Pike joins family in Waynesville North Carolina at Simpson Camp. Thomas H Cooley and daughter Betty return from Elberton Georgia. Carl Henderson and family back from motor trip to Kentucky. A Anthony hosts I B Smoot family from Manchester Tennessee. D H Bishop travels to Grand Rapids Michigan to stay with aunt Mrs W D Bishop. Eliza Orton in Jacksonville for indefinite stay then visits Miami and South Florida. Mrs Alan G Grant and son Alan Jr spend a month at Lake Eden Inn Black Mountain North Carolina then head home north.
Betty Grable Jackie Coogan and Larry Crabbe star in the campus comedy Million Dollar Legs arriving Saturday and Sunday at the Princess Theatre. John Hartley leads a witty plot about students fighting liberal donor control with a basketball crew and plenty of humor. Waterfront with Gloria Dickson and Dennis Morgan is the second feature.
Families plan vacations to North Carolina Arkansas and Florida Spots include Hendersonville Bok Tower Sanctuary Miami Beach and Juniper Springs Varying travelers visit relatives and attend medical and educational events The Army National Guard units at Camp Foster near Jacksonville are to be reassigned to the Navy for a new southeastern Naval Air Base project.
Mr and Mrs William Lafroos of Warren Ohio announce the birth of a son on July 22 naming him Robert White in honor of Mrs Lafroos father the late Robert N White of Mount Dora. Mrs White stayed with the family through the summer then will return to Bethel Connecticut. The Lafrooses and Billy spent last winter in Mount Dora and friends are glad for the new arrival.
Mr and Mrs Conrad visited Mrs Lillie Cross in North East Pennsylvania where she has been bedridden since last Christmas. Arthritis in her hand keeps her from writing but she remains lively and hopeful for news from Mount Dora friends at 72 East Main Street.
Summer travel on Pan American Airways clipper ships to South America and West Indies rose in June to 5361 passengers, up 1861 from June 1938. The clippers flew 260000 miles in 1933 hours aloft, officials announced.
The farmer's incomes have risen notably with the advent of State Farmers' Markets, with cattlemen seeing especially strong gains as steady cash flow increases.
At State Theatre Eustis this Sunday and Monday the film Irving Berlin's Second Fiddle features Sonja Henie skating to Berlin music with a partner on screen for the first time. Rudy Vallee Edna May Oliver lead a cast that includes Mary Healey Lyle Talbot and Alan Dinehart. Six new Berlin songs, a new ballroom dance craze Back to Back, and a tale of the heroine in a best seller adaptation mark the program directed by Sidley Lanfield.
The Eustis Music Club chaired by Mrs A W Hodges will sponsor the audition for a Stetson University music scholarship to be awarded in Lake County. Auditions are at Eustis City Auditorium on Tuesday at 3 00 pm August 8. Applicants must be high school graduates with music training and send a written entry by August 7. Singers and instrumentalists must perform two pieces from memory with their own accompanist.
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad in its Tropical Trips publication highlights Lake County Florida as a premier freshwater fishing region. It notes 1400 clear lakes between Sanford Leesburg Altoona and Clermont with abundant largemouth bass and other game fish. The Lake Region is described as peaceful and picturesque, with towns Apopka Altoona Clermont Eustis Leesburg Mount Dora Mount Plymouth Winter Garden and more surrounded by vineyards citrus groves and golf courses.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce funds a display shown at the Man store in Asheville on Patton Avenue. It features a Lake County flag with the slogan Lake County Florida World’s Greatest Bass Fishing and a cut-out man in a rowboat with a fishing pole. The display promotes Lake County fishing camps and maps, sending 100 county folders and maps to Boyce Williams for distribution.
The Army Air Corps announced plans to deploy lanes and personnel to the neo northeastern air base at Tampa by April next year, marking a move to bolster regional airpower and readiness.
Dr. Melville Gunby Hunter of Leesburg born August 5 1900 in Tampa Florida. He studied in Tampa and graduated from the Still College of Osteopathy Des Moines. A Lake County physician since 1936 he enjoys fishing azalea rare steak and Boy Scouts as hobbies.
Edward Coleman Rogers of Leesburg born August 1 1866 near Mullins South Carolina. He moved to Lake County Florida in 1907 and to Leesburg in 1919. He served as city commissioner from 1929 for ten years and also as mayor of Leesburg.
George J. Dykes, born August 8 1876 in Altoona, rose from a childhood job to become clerk of the Circuit Court and a popular county official. He enjoys fishing, eats mostly fruit and vegetables except spinach, and is active in the Baptist church Kiwanis Elks Knights of Pythias and Woodmen.
W F Red Robinson of Leesburg born July 30 1904 in Lebanon Illinois. A lawyer and colonel on Governor Cone's staff he served in the 1939 Florida House of Representatives from Lake County. He studied in Lebanon schools and attended the University of Florida.
He earned his first dollar in the wheat fields of the middle west and arrived in Lake County and Florida on July 4, 1922. His favored recreation is fishing and his hobby politics. He loves steak and the rose. He belongs to the Lions Club Episcopal church Masonic Lodge and the Knights of Pythias.
Dr. Howard G Holland of Leesburg born August 8 1896 in Henry County Alabama. He studied at State Normal College Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Emory University earning an M D. He works as a physician surgeon in Leesburg and operated a hospital. He came to Leesburg and Florida in December 1925 and enjoys fishing hunting. He is a Rotarian past president of the Leesburg club Knight of Pythias Mason and active Methodist worker.
Douglas reports Corrigan chose Florida for his honeymoon with a brief visit to Pensacola then planned to fly to Jacksonville and possibly other stops.
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