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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1939
Page
7
The Pythian Sisters host a Christmas card party in the Community Building social room on Thursday December 14. Tables for bridge five hundred and Chinese checkers. tickets 25 cents, proceeds to charity fund.
Prizes at the Monday Afternoon Social Club went to Mrs Jeannette Babcock for contract Mrs Ruby Branagan for auction and Mrs A R Odell for five hundred. Hostesses for next week are Mrs Ruby Branagan and Mrs R J Brown. Everyone is invited to the Monday card party with play starting at 2 15 oclock.
The first winter season Tourists Dance will be held this Saturday evening in the Community Building social room from eight to eleven thirty. A fine orchestra will play both old time and modern dances. Club officers will be chosen. Admission is 25 cents. Bring friends for an evening of enjoyment.
Walter Tucker entertained the freshman class at his Lake Joanna home on October 29 in honor of his fifteenth birthday. Guests played games, then gathered in the dining room for cake shaped like Noah’s Ark lit by candles, followed by cake and ice cream. Mrs. Tucker and helpers served, and Walter received many gifts.
A series of winter visits and relocations unfolds as residents and guests travel between New Hampshire Vermont Connecticut Illinois Illinois and Oregon. Notables include Mrs. Mabel Cleary in Jacksonville. Mrs. S. W. Gledhill arriving from Bridgeport. Major and Mrs. Marsh back from Grand Rapids. Agnes Nichols and Doris Camp at Zephyrhills and Ninth avenue respectively.
A long list of winter residents and guests visits Lake Franklin Park and surrounding areas. Names include Emory Greenwood Petersburg Illinois. R F Porter Eas ton Maryland. Miss Eudora White Montgomery Alabama. N S Mayo Highland Park Illinois. W J Agate Old Forge New York. Dean Penn Yan New York. LaMar Silver Tampa Florida. W K Newman Romulus New York. H R Bradner and Anna Condit from Bradley Beach New Jersey. Ellsworth Grant Ossining New York. Louise Morgan and J H Morgan. H H Mallory West Springfield Pennsylvania. Marjorie Cameron Conneaut Ohio. Cadet Harris C Honour Jacksonville Florida. Mrs H H Chamberlain Tangerine. Doris Chamberlain. William F Billingsly Cuyahoga Falls Ohio. Katherine. E J Wilcox Rensselaer Indiana. J L Bruner Galloway Ninth Ave. Mrs Carl Broom ill. Mr Mrs William Schmidt Ruth Horton. C C Dooley Postmaster. D W Ten Broeck Alice Ten Broeck A J Gregory Keith Gregory Trivoli Illinois. Daytona Beach Hilliard Florida trips for Thanksgiving.
The film explains how Christmas Seal funds support tuberculosis work nationwide. It highlights medical research, health education, case finding by X ray, visiting nursing, and sanatorium treatment as part of a year round eradication effort.
Miss Jane E. Grills, a University of Michigan junior in the literary college, was pledged to the national honorary speech society for women Zeta Phi Eta. She is the granddaughter of Mr and Mrs Wilbur Beebe of Flint, Michigan, who will be present.
Deanna Durbin's latest picture First Love plays at the Princess Theatre this Saturday and Sunday with Lewis Howard and Robert Stack featured alongside.
Deanna Durbin’s sixth film First Love opens at the Princess Theatre this weekend in a mature role as an orphan girl who wins over a snobbish household. Robert Stack plays the young bachelor love interest with Helen Parrish and Marcia Mae Jones among the supporting cast. The program features songs including One Fine Day Madame Butterfly and Home Sweet Home.
Medical research in tuberculosis is advanced by Christmas Seal funding. Research continues year round at six universities across the country, supporting scientific work and collaboration.
Darryl F. Zanuck presents the Technicolor adventure drama Drums Along the Mohawk starring Claudette Colbert and Henry Fonda. John Ford directs the historical romance from Walter Edmonds novel, with vivid Mohawk Valley action and acclaimed battle scenes. Bert Glennon photographs the film.
The Mount Dora Woman's Club buys the first Christmas bond to support the anti tuberculosis drive. Bonds range from $5 and resemble commercial bonds with the double barred cross insignia and the Crusade of the Double barred Cross message. The certificate pledges funds to community health programs at local state and national levels.
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