Eastern Star Picnic Near Mount Dora Planned
Mount Dora Chapter No 103 Order of the Eastern Star hosts annual picnic at Gilbert Park at 6 p m with covered dish welcome. If rain the Masonry hall will host. Isabel Patrick W M Bradstock initiated. next meetings set for August 7 and August 1 feature a Food Sale September 1 at 9 am. Two former members to be reinstated September 4.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Star
Robert Morris
Mount Dora
Order of the Eastern
Gilbert Park
Isabel Patrick
W. M
Bradstock
Mount Dora Hotel
Local residents on weekend visits and travels
The column lists numerous people visiting relatives or traveling: Personal Zero Adams spent weekend with parents and children. Sheila Spilky left August 18 for Knoxville to take a job. J G Ray Jr returned from Camp Blanding to settle permanently. Miss June Dresser left Tuesday for Kingswood in Tennessee. and many others visiting or returning home from trips or medical stays. Names include Harvey Kimball, Beasley, Felton Dean, William Prinz, Sara Jo Land, J. G. Ray Jr, Sheila Spilky, W. H. Morrell, Ray Eckholdt, A. W. Birkbeck, Alexandra, J. M. Greene, Martha Treadwell, Donald French, Harold Scott, Betty Cooley, Edith Walker, Wm. J. Walker, J. M. McCown, Zion Brock, Evelyn, Ruth Shipes, Faye Shipes, June Dresser, E. E. Truskett, Franklin Heck, O. B. Heck Jr, Charles Javens, Anna Margaret White, Sally Graybill, Mary Agnes Harding, Cathie Land, James Simpson.
Local weekly social notes from Mount Dora and area
Mr and Mrs A Lee French visit in town while Mrs French is married to Captain Hinton. Sep 15 Mr and Mrs Leslie Jackson vacationed in Massachusetts and Mrs Jackson was briefly hospitalized but improving. Families including the Dixons Hall Clark Roberts Drawdy Pease and others are noted with travels and hospital stays.
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Leslie Jackson
Massachusetts
Gibsons welcome Pendleton home from Birmingham visit
The Rev and Mrs George Gibson return from Birmingham Alabama with their guest Darrell L Pendleton who will reside with them. Pendleton spent most of August with the Gibsons and their relatives in Birmingham.
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George Gibson
Birmingham
Ala
Darrell L. Pendleton
Gibsons
Bowie couple renovate Colson home in East Eighth area
Mr and Mrs Cecil Bowie return from Georgia and Althea Florida after two months on business. They are busy renovating the old Colson home on East Eighth avenue which they bought and plan to move into as soon as possible. Mrs Ernest A Mitchell leaves September first for Boston to join Boston City Hospital.
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Cecil Bowie
Georgia
Althea
Florida
Colson
East Eighth Avenue
Ernest A. Mitchell
Boston
Boston City Hospital
Mitchell
Pomona Davidson
D. B. Spencer
Frank Davidson
Mrs Wilson Smith Visits Family In New York State
Mrs Wilson Smith returns from Jackson Heights New York after visiting her daughter and son in law Mr and Mrs Charles Leach and other relatives on Long Island She was away about two months. Mr and Mrs W G Shipley plan to depart September 8 with daughter Miss Vernell to Stephens College then visit relatives in St Joseph and Kansas City before heading to Warren Ohio to organize their orange store business.
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Edith Walker
Delray Beach
Florida
Wm. J. Walker
Wilson Smith
Jackson Heights
New York
Charles Leach
Leach
Jean Aca
Long Island
W. G. Shipley
Miss Vernell
Stephens College
Columbia
Missouri
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Warren
Ohio
Notable visits and wartime family ties noted in Mount Dora
Mr. W. E. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Myrick of Atlanta visited Eugene L Downs in Mount Dora. They had been to St. Petersburg to bring home SSgt. Homer Owens from furlough in New York. Captain Jones, a chaplain, earned the Bronze Star for meritorious achievement in Luzon. Rev. Rankin plans to join his wife in September. Florence Ann Clark is with the family in Sylvan Shores while David Lee stays with New Philadelphia relatives.
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W. E. Jones
E. L. Myrick
Atlanta
Georgia
Mount Dora
Eugene L Downs
St. Petersburg
Homer Owens
New York
Owens
B. Jones
Eugene L. Downs
Luzon
Jones
Victor Rankin
David Lee
New Philadelphia
Ohio
George F. Clark
Florence Ann
Miami
C. A. Killian
Sylvan Shores
Rev. Rankin
Clark
Central India Air Depot
Army Air Corps
Virginia
Katherine Killian
4H Club Girls Poultry Show in Tavares Florida
Fourteen Lake County 4-H Club girls will display 42 Newshire Red Bullets at a September 7 show in the 4-H Club building in Tavares. Judging by A W O’Steen will begin at 10 am, with Sears Roebuck Foundation funding chicks and prizes announced at a luncheon hosted by Sears at Hitching Post.
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Lake County
Tavares
Lucie K. Miller
A. W. O’steen
Agricultural Extension Service
Sears Roebuck Co
Ann Pike
Mount Dora
Lois McRee
Bernice Berghuis
Eustis
Harrott Carthers
Myrtle Atkinson
Anita Hunter
Umatilla
Mary Ella Tripp
Florence Freeman
Mary Dell Lackey
Lesburg
Norma Booth
Betty Lou Watkins
Beverly Ann Brunner
Mascotte
Verna Gaskins
Groveland
Sears Roebuck Foundation
Mc Jordan
Orlando
Sears Roebuck
Coast Guard Reopens Regular Enlistments for Teens
The Coast Guard announces regular three year enlistments resume for 17 year olds for the first time since 1942. Lieut Lucretia Bailey says regular enlistees get same educational advantages and advancement prospects as the Reserve, with ongoing high school and fitness requirements maintained. James C Royals Jr of Miami is the first Floridian to enlist under the new plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S. Coast Guard
Lucretia Bailey
Seventh Naval District
Coast Guard
James C. Royals, Jr
Miami
Bailey
Oast Guard
Emblem Nobody Knows A Gold Lapel Button For Veterans
Since the war began over a million men have been discharged and thousands more return each month to civilian life from all service branches. The government provides a small gold lapel button symbolizing honorable discharge. It is little recognized and serves as a badge of honor for veterans who wear it in civilian clothes.
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Germany
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Victor Maclaglan
Deeside
van Johnson
Lionel Gloria Barrymore
Dehaven
Action! Thrills
Yao Pre
Allan Lane
Linda Stirling
Twinkle Watts
Fred Macmurray
Claudette Colbert
Paramount Picture
Gale Strom
Conrad Nagel and
John Mack Brown
Topeka
Molly
Zero Adams
Harvey Kimball
Beasley and
Felton Dean
Plant City
Lakeland
William Prinz
Ambler, Pa
Sara Jo Land
Eagie’s Nest
Brevard
N. C
J. G. Ray, Jr
Camp Blanding
Sheila Spilky
Knoxville, Tenn
W. H. Morrell
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Ray Eckholdt
A. W. Birkbeck
Alexandra
Cedartown, Ga
J. M. Greene
St. Joseph, Mo
Martha Treadwell
Jacksonville
Donald French
Brenham
Texas
Harold Scott
Susie
Major
Thomas H. Cooley
Betty
Indian Rocks Beach
J. M. McCown
First National Bank
Zion Brock
Evelyn
Bainbridge
Ruth
Faye Shipes
New Orleans
Richard
Naval Base
June Dresser
Tennessee
Kingswood
June
E. E. Truskett
Joplin, Mo
Franklin Heck
O. B. Heck, Jr
Charles Javens
Davidson College
Anna Margaret White
Tampa
Sally Graybill
Mary Agnes Harding
Centey
Leesburg
Cathie Land
David S. Simpson
Wenesville
James Simpson
J. B. Hinton
Austin, Tex
Paul Kelly
Virginia Grey
Grissly
Mrs. A. Lee French
Captain Hinton
Mrs. Millard Reid
Alexander and
11Th
J. E. Dixon
Dickey
Barbara Ann
L. J. Drawdy, Sr
Libby
Ray. Clark
Igas Hall
Robert Hall
Stewart Roberts
Sandy
Frank
A. Schonenberger
Bayard Roberts
John D. Pease
Orange General Hospital
Nana T. Lahey
Daytona Beach
Howey
D. D. Roseborough
Jonesboro
Irving Shuman, Jr
Alfred Rehbaum, Jr
Kay and
Alfred III
Mount Dora Electric Company
Highland Ave
Sylvan Shores Hotel
H. A. Stein
Mildred Marsh
New Hampshire
Wilb
Mount Dora, Florida
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Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Hale’s
Ferry
Ferry Morse Seed CO
Detroit
San Francisco
Lionel Barrymore
Gloria de Haven
Mt Dora Hardware Company
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