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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1939
Page
5
The King's Daughters hold a Monday meeting at 436 East Fifth Avenue hosted by Miss Nancy Stuart with Miss Mary True as associate hostess. Attendance invited, monthly summer meetings noted. Drugg entertained a bride elect Flora Morley with luncheon at Eleventh Avenue home with guests including Mary Morley and several others.
Mr and Mrs Charles C Moorhead announce the marriage of their daughter Mary Joyce to Mr Donald Ferguson Strickland on Sunday July 30 in Bushnell Florida. The couple will reside in Mount Dora where Mr Strickland is employed at Moorheads Feed Store.
Mr and Mrs T D Morley hosted a prenuptial family party for the bridal party. The Windermere hosts welcomed relatives including Miss Harriet Morley and Mr Samuel Morley cousins of the bride's father with a supper on Monday evening.
Miss Flora Morley becomes Mrs Hugh R O Neill in a six o clock wedding at the Morley home with Rev D B Spencer officiating. The bridal party wore blue and peach organdie and white gowns. After a reception, the couple planned a motor trip and home at 608 East High Street Lexington Kentucky.
Akim Tamiroff stars in The Magnificent Fraud at the Princess with Lloyd Nolan as a rogue lover behind a dictator. Boland, Patricia Morison, George Zucco, Steffi Dunn, and Ernest Cossart also appear under Robert Florey direction. Co feature Island of Lost Men with Anna May Wong.
The text notes a Lexington resident, son of Mrs Ollie Pickett O Neill, connected to Memorial Academy in Tennessee, serving as a city mail carrier in Lexington for four years, reflecting local civic ties.
Personal notices list Mrs Florence Holt visiting Bainbridge Ga and Mrs J R Patrick spending weeks in Dansville N Y while others tour Mount Kisco Atlantic City New Market Va and Shenandoah Valley. reports mention hospital return for Aller ton Wentworth and ONeill-Morley wedding travels. U S farm population on Jan 1 1939 stood at 32 059 000 with record high near 32 077 000.
At State Theatre Eustis hosts Daughters Courageous Sunday and Monday with Priscilla Lane Rosemary Lane Lola Lane Gale Page and Claude Rains. May Robson returns as the loyal servant and Fay Bainter joins as the mother with Donald as her suitor. The plot revolves around a wedding and a father's sudden return changing the family’s future.
Senator Claude Pepper proposes a new investigation of the Florida Cross-State Canal. Chairman Clark of the Senate Inter Oceanic Canals Committee authorized a sub committee to study the issue.
Sorrento residents report visits and family ties from Orlando Tallahassee Perry Thomaston and Atlanta as well as Coronado Beach outings. Congratulations are extended to Charles Barnett and Anna Battle on the birth of Dorothy Ann Barnett. Mourning relatives share sympathy for Mrs Flint of River Falls Wisconsin who died at 94 with daughters Abby Laura and sister Hattie Levings.
Mr and Mrs Charles Barnett announce the birth of a daughter on Friday August 3 at Orange General Hospital Orlando. Dorothy Ann weighs six and a half pounds. She is the granddaughter of Mr and Mrs W L Barnett Tangerine and Mrs Ida Battle Sorrento. Mother and baby are doing nicely.
W L E Barnett chair of the Florida Citrus Growers quality standards committee told the Citrus Commission that the industry will push for strict enforcement of new laws. Key aims include maturity standards, frozen fruit embargo, packing house rules and regulated coloring rooms to prevent abuse and ensure fruit reaches customers in good condition.
Dr Leroy Oetjen of Leesburg born August 10 1902 in Augusta Georgia. He runs a Community Hospital in Leesburg and studied at University of Georgia Athens and Augusta campuses after Richmond Academy. His early job was blacksmith helper in Augusta. He moved to Florida and Lake County in 1932. His hobbies include hard work and boxing and he is a Kiwanian active in underprivileged child work.
USDA scientists report rubber trees can withstand high winds better than many species because they shed leaves, reducing top wind resistance. A farm home study with interchangeable panel test houses found high ceilings do not cool rooms and cost more to heat. walls and ceiling height were varied to measure heat differences.
On Thursday August 17 at Chinsegut Hill Sanctuary near Brooksville a field day and livestock roundup will begin with a 10 o clock station tour and a noon barbecue. The afternoon program features talks on poultry livestock industries pasture and forage crops. Growers are urged to mail fertilizer records to the County Agent’s office to maximize soil conservation payments.
Scientists at the American Wildlife Institute at Alabama Polytechnic Institute tested a single wire electric fence around a field of cotton corn peanuts peas and potatoes to protect crops from deer. The deer crawled under the fence despite the wire being about 24 inches high.
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