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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1940
Page
5
The Lamert Circle of the First Baptist Church met for its regular monthly session at Mrs. Joe Price’s home on Tuesday afternoon. After business and the program, a short social hour followed. The venue for next month’s meeting will be announced later.
The last porch meeting of the season was hosted by Mrs. Mabel Cleary on Friday August 16. The group worked on bazaar items for December, discussed plans, and shared a buffet luncheon with Mrs. J. B. Griswold assisting. Attendees included Mrs. Lillian Banks Mrs. N. W. Morley Mrs. Grant Cowles and others.
Personal Al Bell is here. Newcomb Fuller takes a two week vacation in the north. Mrs. Betty Goethe hosts guest Mrs. E. B. Rivers of Miami Beach, Mrs. Sam Coen and daughter Miss Shirley spent Saturday at Daytona Beach. J. M. McCown, cashier of the First National Bank, is on his annual vacation. Mr. Joseph Swift returns from New York City after a business trip.
Mrs. Dave Lys returns from Atlanta while the Price family spend Saturday in Orlando. Miss Betty Jean Johnson hosts Miss Joyce Thompson in Jacksonville. The Mount Dora Pharmacy group tours Indian Springs Georgia. Various residents visit family in Lynchburg Virginia Oak Park Illinois and New York City. Friends and relatives travel for funerals and vacations with many Jacksonville and Lakeland links.
Mr. Frank Burkart of Flori dange Canneries and his sons Robert and John have vacationed on the Florida West Coast at Tampa and other points. Mr and Mrs F Marion Whaley left Monday for Savannah to review and supervise repairs after hurricane damage.
Local Mount Dora society records numerous weekend visits and returns. The notices list Fisher and Rogers family guests in the Methodist parsonage, Florida residents visiting relatives in Atlanta Ocala and Lake City convalescences. The column notes trips to Jersey City Philadelphia and Washington and recalls the Big Brothers camp at Deer Lake with ten Lake County youths.
Card of thanks from The Moorhead Family expresses gratitude for sympathy words, cards, flowers and acts of kindness following illness and death of husband, father and grandfather.
Mrs Lucie K Miller Lake County home demonstration agent left for New York to attend the World's Fair. She is joined by Mrs Nellie Winfree of Leesburg. They plan a ten day trip returning for the Growers Institute at Camp McQuarrie August 25 to 30 in the Ocala National Forest.
The Mount Dora No. 238 F. and A. M. mourns the passing of charter member Charles Clifton Moorhead. He is praised as a true Mason and kindly neighbor whose quiet greetings and generous acts enriched the lodge. A copy of the resolutions will be sent to his family and filed with lodge records.
Mr and Mrs J M Smith announce the birth of a son born Sunday August 18 at Lake County Medical Center. The baby weighs 92 pounds and has been named Lawrence Calvin. Mother and child are reported doing well.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hathaway returns from Nova Ohio after illness and death of her brother Dr. Charles Marquette a veteran physician of over forty years and former railroad surgeon and Ashland County Health Board member.
The Florida State Welfare Board says 50 carloads of evaporated milk will be distributed over nine months for the hot lunch program. Each car holds 1,000 cases and each case 48 cans, totaling 2,400,000 cans for about 100,000 children. Early shipments have arrived and demand will rise with the new term.
Department of Public Safety records show 112 licenses revoked in July and 39 suspended, totaling 1,012 since the October start. Polk leads July revocations with 14, Palm Beach 7 licenses issued in July, and drunken driving accounts for about 90 percent of yearly revocations.
The Jacksonville Housing Authority case clarifies tax rules for public bodies. If a project serves a charitable purpose, exemption may apply. otherwise, the property must be taxed like private enterprises. The ruling underscores that government ventures in competition with private business are not automatically tax free.
Senator Claude Pepper backs Stephen Foster for the Hall of Fame in a Mayo Free Press appeal. Readers are urged to write to The Curator Foster Hall Collection University of Pittsburgh for electors and reasons to support Foster as a beloved American folk composer.
A new National Youth Administration camp, the first of its kind in the nation, will be established in Tampa to train youths in defense crafts. The facility will comprise 23 buildings and cost $500,000.
Florida Southern's Community College will begin its autumn term on September 20 with weekend classes for public school teachers and adults seeking continuing education. Registration is September 13-14 and classes run Friday 5:30 and 8 pm and Saturday 8, 9, and 11:30 am.
Florida corporation reports to the federal government on income tax returns will be opened to county tax assessors a month earlier than in prior years, state auditor W. M. Wainwright announced last week. Sarasota expects more trailer guests next winter per park manager Fred Dailey, who is at Traverse City and Manistee conventions.
In July press and authorities joined governor civic clubs to promote safety, producing splorful results. Asher Frank, director of the Florida Safety Council, urged continuing such cooperation at all times.
The WPA airport work funded by War and Navy Departments Coast Guard and Florida municipalities totals 8,304,513 in active projects with an additional 712,534 authorized but not yet operating, per State Administrator Roy Schroder.
Emergency crop and feed loans are available to farmers in Lake County. Applications are accepted at the County Agent's office in the courthouse by H. Deal, field supervisor of the Emergency Crop and Feed Loan Section of the Farm Credit Administration. Loans target small cash needs not obtainable from other sources and require a first lien on the financed crop or on livestock for feed loans.
Lakeland city commissioners allocated 60000 last week to accelerate work at the new Army Cadet Flying School project at the municipal airport. Training is slated to begin September 15 with the civilian and military aviation program moving forward under local officials.
Silver Springs experiences its best summer season on record. According to Shorty Davidson crowds reach several thousand daily, prompting boat trips to begin as early as 6 a.m. to handle the influx of visitors.
State Administrator Roy Schroder states that in addition to $8,310,684 in national defense work by WPA with the War and Navy Departments, U S Coast Guard, and Florida State and Municipal agencies, $871,872 is being expended on armories and armory facilities.
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