Christmas Messiah and Yuletide Events in Mount Dora
Mount Dora plans a Christmas observance featuring Handel's Messiah by a 60 voice chorus at First Methodist Church Friday night. A Community Sing at City Hall Tuesday, Santa at Donnelly Park on Christmas Eve, and a church drama by the Ice-House Players cap the schedule broadcast on WEUS for area shut-ins.
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Yuletide
Mount Dora
First Methodist Church
City Hall
Santa Claus
Donnelly Park
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Methodist Church
Messiah Chorus
Ernie A. Walker
Ruth Woodman Stanley
Mary Louis Rothermel
Michael Malis
George Gibson
Weus
Eustis
Shutins
Harold Morse
Santa
Nativity Scene Lights Mount Dora For Community Sing
Mount Dora plans a Christmas Nativity Scene lighting and community sing at City Hall. Edith Fairfax Davenport and her art students created the figures, with 1948 presentation by Davenport’s class. The event starts at 5 30 p m next Tuesday with Mrs Esther Wyatt Bishop directing and George J White assisting.
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Mount Dora
Edith Fairfax Davenport
Esther Wyatt Bishop
Woman’s Club
George J. White
Chamber of Commerce
Kiwanis Club
Christ Child
First Methodist Church
Miss Davenport
Botticelli
Patty Claflin
Mary Martha Simpson
Yule Program Set For Sunday
Mount Dora High school band and combined Glee club present a program of Christmas carols at the Community building Sunday at 3 p m under Ernie A Walker. Adrianne Norton sings with Cecile Strong on piano. George Sims narrates The Christmas Story with carols including Silent Night O Little Town of Bethlehem It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Hark the Herald Angels Sing The First Noel O Holy Night O Come All Ye Faithful We Three Kings of Orient Are and Joy To The World.
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Mount Dora High School
Ernie A. Walker
Adrianne Norton
Cecile Strong
George Sims
Town of
Bethlehem
Orient
X-Ray Unit Provides Free TB Chest Screens in Mount Dora
Residents 15 and older can get free chest X-rays at Donnelly Park today from 10 to 1 and 2 to 5 as the Lake County Health and Tuberculosis association winds up a December drive. TB screening will reveal signs of disease within minutes after imaging.
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Mount Dora
Donnelly Park
Lake County
Nie
Ruth Hunter
Lake County Health and Tuberculosis Association
Burke Chisholm Holiday Sports Schedule for Dec
School activities run Dec 20 to 31 with boys and girls programs. Contests fill three daily sessions from 9:00 to 11:30, 2:00 to 4:00, and 7:00 to 9:00 featuring football softball basketball volleyball horseshoes and relay races. Two games against Leesburg are listed among holiday events.
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Burke. Chisholm
Leesburg
Dora Bids Farewell To Rev Gibson At Mount Dora
Rev George Calvin Gibson leaves as First Methodist church in Mount Dora hosts his final Sunday service before moving to Florida Southern College Lakeland as chaplain and music director. He built youth involvement, expanded choirs, installed a new organ, and boosted church budget and attendance. His successor is Rev Robert M Blackburn of Orlando. He will preach January 2.
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Mount Dora
George Calvin Gibson
First Methodist Church
Florida Southern College
Lakeland
Mr. Gibson
Dora
Florida
Frederic Handel
Gibson
Robert M. Blackburn
Orlando
Mrs. Cridler Elder Sister Of Florence Hanscom Dies
Mrs Alice Mary Cridler 80 sister of Mrs Florence Hanscom of Grand View Sr died after a lingering illness. Prayer services set for 10 a.m. Thursday at Rehbaum Funeral chapel with Rev A A Stanley officiating. Funeral services to be held in Danville New York, her former home.
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Alice Mary Cridler
Florence. Hanscom
Grandview Sr
Rehbaum
A. A. Stanley
Danville
N. Y
Mount Dora Fashion Show Models Shine at Sally Dress Event
Mount Dora women served as holiday models at a fashion show staged last week by Sally Dress shop at the Community building. Featured are Mrs. Carl Graves in white crepe with bugle bead design and Mrs. Fletcher Crane in slipper satin, with Miss Patty Claflin in rose net and satin and Miss Jean Patterson in Christmas tree green marquisette and lame.
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Mount Dora
Sally Dress Shop
Carl Graves
Fletcher Crane
Patty Claflin
Jean Patterson
Community Is Angel to Mount Dora IceHouse Players
Mount Dora's IceHouse Players report community support as their angel raising over 500 dollars in 10 days. Funds fund stuccoing the old ice house headquarters and ordering a plush blue velvet curtain from New York for the first production Return Engagement in January. Proceeds from a recent auction grossed 375 dollars and a December 6 Sally Dress Shop show added to the fund. Additional fundraisers include selling two oil portraits by Mrs. Stephen Gregor and Mrs. L. E. Barnett to cover electrical work and footlights.
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IceHouse Players
Mount Dora
Players
New York
Gordon Goodrich
Stephen Gregor
L.E. Barnett
Prinz Crane Collins Sweep City Council Vote
In a surprise upset Prinz and Collins win council seats edging out Eddy and Ray. Crane and Cronwall win park board seats as voter turnout drops with 452 total ballots and many voters turned away for registration issues. The new council meets January 4 to organize and assign committees including health and sanitation.
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Prinz, Crane, Collins
R. R. Eddy
J. G. Ray
William Prinz
Marshall Collins
D. Fletcher Crane
Dorans
Myron Cronwall
Park Board
Frederick A. Whiting
William LeFroos
Collins
Prinz
Eddy
Lillian Christie
al Rehbaum, Jr
J. .M. Turner
Crane
R. E. Morse
McDonald Jr
Henry Stein
New Syvan Shores Realty Co
Ray
J. E. Fortner
Otis Hale
Council
PNG Sis Iing
Apie Crane Lye Few Uel
Eee Collinia
Lofyoos O
Cceirien
Iscc
Cescecsesicoxyon Rege
Cronwalt
Whiting Bad
Two Weeks Off for Mount Dora Students
Mount Dora students will start Christmas break Friday and return January 3. High School Principal W A Vincent says the manual training shop will operate daily during vacation from 9 30 to noon for continued work and he will be in the office 2 to 3 30 to assist with make up work and loan books for home study.
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Mount Dora
W. A. Vincent
Legion Holiday Party Planned by American Legion Group
The American Legion and auxiliary announce a holiday gathering at the Community building Monday at 7 p.m. A potluck supper and a Christmas party will feature Bingo as the highlight. Attendees should bring a covered dish their own table service and a 25 cent gift for exchange.
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The
American Legion
Woman's Association Missionary Meeting Remains Set
The Woman's Association of the Community Church will hold its missionary meeting on December 17 at 3 p.m. The event is hosted by the Association and invites members to attend.
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Woman’s Association of the Community Church
Mount Dora honors Deansboro couple on 50th wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. J Charles Earl celebrate a Golden Wedding anniversary after 50 years of marriage and 65 years of friendship. They moved from Deansboro New York to Mount Dora Florida twelve years ago and are active in bowling, the Masonic lodge, and Community church. Their son Dr Charles A Earl of Oneida New York saved Mr Earls life during a 1940 heart attack.
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J. Charles Earl
Earl
Ninth Av. E
Mount Dora
Deansboro
Lake Dora
Ithica
Mount
Dora’s Lawn Court
Allyn
Clinton
N. Y
Washington
Oneida
New York State
Jubilee of Earl and Lida Allen Earl Wedding Reflections
A 50 year retrospective on the Earls wedding day with Lida Allen as bride wearing a beige brocaded gown. Guests include Rev Clarence W Mason Verna Stafford and Anson Bailey now living in Ithaca and Chittenango New York, recalling the ceremony and party.
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Sweet Lida Allen
Mr. Earl
Clarence W. Mason
Mrs. Earl
Citrus Woes Highlight Florida Orange Trade Drops
Wall Street Journal reports from Leesburg and Lake Wales that Florida citrus profits have fallen from 236 million to an expected 25 to 30 million this year. Retail sales lag and Leesburg trade is 20 percent below last year as frozen juice expansion may aid a depressed industry.
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Florida
Leesburg
Wall Street Journal
Lake Wales
Journal
Joseph M. Guilfoyle
Lesburg
Guifoyle
Vacuum Foods Corp
Guilfoyle
G. G. Ware
First National Bank of
Ware
Groves
Death claims former Mount Dora winter visitor Mrs Cora K MacGown
Mrs Cora K MacGown a former Abington Massachusetts resident and longtime winter visitor to Mount Dora died there December 6 at her residence Her sister Mrs Marcus McArann had also visited Mount Dora The funeral service was conducted at her home by Rev Harvey Carnes pastor of the First Parish Congregational Church with burial in Mt Vernon cemetery
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Mount Dora
Cora K. MacGown
Abington
Mass
Rat Eradication Survey Set In Dora Downtown
Lake County Sanitation department will survey Dora's downtown buildings in the coming days to plan rat eradication work. Building Supervisor A. J. Waltz and sanitation officer John Reagan will tour each building and advise merchants on required repairs. The program was adopted by the Merchants division at Monday night's meeting.
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Dora
Lake County
Sanitation Department
A. J. Waltz
John Reagan
Merchants Division
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