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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1930
Page
3
Bi weekly issue of The Senior Class from Mount Dora High School features Marguerite Sidel and students Jesse Dooley Wilmer Stokley Ray Brantley May Harvey in a local school update.
The passage promotes treating books as friends and using the library for educational reading. It urges careful reading, returning volumes to proper places, and thanks a local group for laundering football outfits free of charge.
Thanksgiving day report from M. D. H. S. loss to Eustis 21 to 0. First quarter none scored, points all in one quarter. Eustis showed little drive while our team fought hard though unable to reach the goal line. Season ends with no touchdowns, but experience gained gives hope for next fall and a shift to basketball as the new focus.
Six cars loaded with high school students departed Mount Dora for Eustis on the evening of November 1. They reached Eustis around seven and proceeded with various makers brought for the parade.
A tenuous report notes Mount Dora students staged their first demonstration. The piece praises the small school and hopes for similar future actions, while describing a parade ending with a football player and a public display that was deemed innocent by observers.
The article lists guards Rhoda ley Yvonne Sad ler and other promising 7th and 8th graders Flora Mor ley Helen Gorman Harriet Wise Cecelia Palmer Coralie Cooper. It notes plan for three division play and home games to boost school spirit. Boys began practice December 2 with Coach Laney emphasizing low passes and dribbling.
Oviedo at Mount Dora on December 16 at 7 30 p m at Mount Dora Orlando at Mount Dora December 20 at 7 30 p m at Orlando Winter Garden at Mount Dora January 9 at 7 30 p m at Winter Garden Umatilla at Mount Dora January 16 at 7 30 p m at Mount Dora Ocoee at Mount Dora January 23 at 7 30 p m at Mount Dora Oviedo at Mount Dora January 30 at 7 30 p m at Oviedo Orlando at Mount Dora February 7 at Mount Dora Umatilla at Mount Dora February 13 at 7 30 p m at Umatilla
Ocoee and Mount Dora clash Friday at 7 30 p m in Mount Dora with a return game planned February 27 at Ocoee. A winter schedule note lists alumni versus guests and a December 26 Mount Dora event in the same series.
Freshman class presented a one act comedy The range Colored Necktie on Friday December 5 with Peggy Martha Wells Esther Roberts J D Mosteller Roy Collins in the cast. Football awards announced none awarded monograms though several players received chevrons stripes and stars for games played injuries and captaincies with Oliver Pray Alfred Neil Jessee Dooley Glen Edwards Robert McMurray and Joseph Swift among those honored.
Miss Hubbell reports the library has been classified by the Dewey system with shelf numbers on every book. A dictionary catalogue will list each work by author title and subject, and a borrowing card method will give pupils a color card per class to limit checkout. The library aims to be among the most completely catalogued in the state.
On February 7 1931 Mount Dora High debates an unknown opponent on abolishing the present jury system. Eligible students under nineteen with four subjects and passing grades may join. Last year’s semi final team includes Abby Jo Simpson with two alternates Marie Slack and Shirley Schonenberger.
A humorous domestic vignette centers on a family evening scene. A father, little sister, Aunt Emma, and grandpa share a lively ukulele playing moment while a teenage crush on dynamite adds a comic tension. Grandma pleads for quiet as the racket echoes through the house.
Miss Cassady teases Charlotte about the World War scrapbook while seventh graders share grins. Definitions label humor about dust mud warmth snoring and cafeteria back doors. The scene shifts through Latin II and Chemistry class quips about farming fertilizer and fish.
Social activity and attendance highlight a busy weekend with Marguerite Sidel in Sanford on November 27 and Joe and Abby Jo in Orlando for a November 29 show and shopping. Mount Dora High and Eustis seniors figure in dances and a prank involving football goal posts at Thanksgiving.
Two senior boys warned to attend class on time else seven girls and one boy will compose the class. Candy sales yield pretty good returns. Sad news as Jesse Dooley along with a leg injury last Saturday. he remains cheerfully upbeat. The senior class regrets the loss zone its members Evelyn Cruthield.
The notes discuss early play practice for the juniors with plans to cover one act per week. They mention a new member Mae Jewell Phillips and the departure of Mary Bueler. Myrtle Jepson attended a Rollins College event and a college choir musical in Orlando. Jean Blanchard celebrated a birthday and Mab Ray and Rhoda Simpson attended a dance at the Eustis Country Club. Several football players earned athletic awards last Friday.
Six weeks were Edna Mae Neil Virginia Jepson Jean Smith Cecil Parker and Frank Pooser. Ruth Harvey and Barbara Blanchard have been absent due to illness. Calhoun Michael went to Lake Noe during the Thanksgiving holidays. Alfred Rehbaum visited his grandmother for Thanksgiving dinner.
The Carnegie Corporation of New York will give Florida State College for Women 5000 to buy books for the browsing room of the college library. The grant, approved November 7, is part of an southeast group distribution to six other southern colleges and must be used solely for books.
A high school teacher received papers with humorous wrong answers such as blizzard as inside a hen and a circle as a straight line with a hole. The misspellings and misinterpretations reveal how far some students’ understanding can drift from facts. Farmers planning 1931 farming to make a living are urged to aim for sustainable income rather than profit.
The National Geographic Society notes that American dress is largely the product of foreign countries. Hats may be from Italy or the Philippines, collars from Egypt, neckties from Japan, and textiles from Singapore, with components sourced across Argentina, Paraguay, Mozambique, India, and Brazil for leather, tanning fluids, chrome ore, shellac, and wax.
The Town of Mount Dora in Lake County Florida announces introduction and passage of a proposed ordinance to repeal the License Ordinance in effect since January first, 1931. It was advanced at the Regular Meeting December 2, 1930 and will be considered for final adoption at a Special Meeting December 23, 1930. Objections may be heard at the special session led by Town Clerk Wm. J. Johnson.
A Battle Creek physician claims constipation causes great misery, but Rexall Orderlie offers immediate relief. The tablet eases dry waste and induces a gentle natural movement without increasing dose. Chew Rexall Orderlie at night for next day relief. 24 for 25 cents at Rexall Drug Store Mount Dora Pharmacy.
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