Mount Dora Lawn Bowling Notes and December Updates
Mount Dora lawn bowling notes report December league practice results and upcoming changes. The piece covers player arrivals and birthdays, restroom renovations, match scores, and new scoring systems under study including Maben’s and Breck’s methods. It also notes invitations from Australian and New Zealand associations for January to March 1950 tours and travel cost estimates for Mount Dora participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeLand
Maben
American Lawn Bowling Association
Australian Bowling Association
New Zealand Bowling Association
Stewart Brown
ALBA
Mount Dora
Hang On Mom Won’t Be Long During Christmas Break
A joyous end of term story in Jacksonville recounts six to eleven year old pupils and teachers sharing holiday crafts, carols, and room visits. Parents hosted classroom parties as seven days remain until Christmas. Students donated to the Christmas seal sale the Jacksonville orphans home and the Junior Red Cross, packing twenty boxes for overseas aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary
Jacksonville
Junior Red Cross
County Offices Closed for Holiday Break
Lake county courthouse officials announce all county offices will close Thursday at 4 p.m. through Monday December 27 and again from Thursday 4 p.m. December 30 to January 3. Clerk George J. Dykes said the circuit court will observe the same schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Circuit Court
George J. Dykes
Carolyn Downs Returns With Family From China War Zone
Carolyn Downs arrives home with sons Michael and John minus Aymah after her husband Major Lem Downs remains in Nan King China. She recalls life in war torn China, notes rice shortages, treated water, and a rambling Nanking house. Carolyn hopes Lem may transfer to Japan and she may return with the children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carolyn Downs
Mount Dora
Lem Downs
China
Nanking
Carolyn
Michael
John
Orient
Lem
David C. Barr
Japan
W. M. Kennedy
Pearl Downs
U.S
First Earthquake News From Lynn in Los Angeles
Lynn MacClelland writes to her mother in Mount Dora about her California life as a powerful tremor shakes her home. The shaking disrupts chairs ink bottles and pictures while her sister Joy screams, marking their first quake experience in Los Angeles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn MacClelland
Arthur Tanner
Mount Dora
California
Joy
Lynn
Los Angeles
Men Homely Tales From Mount Dora Yacht Club
Editor recounts a humorous, ribald reminiscence from the Mount Dora area in 1920s Florida. He contrasts a gender imbalance with unkind remarks about local men and a tale of a would‑be suitor who proposed on a boat only to be sent away by a sharp admonition and a night retreat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Charles Earl
Matt Caley
William A. Prince
Jenkintown
Lakeside Inn
Gourley
Hichborn
Parker
Skip Marsh
Bridgeman
Wheeler
Swift
Skip Breckenridge
Seiger
Rehm
Crockett
Skip Grant
Wilmot
Trager
Ferguson
Skip Nelson
John P. Donnelly
Mount
Speec Dora Yacht Club
Florida
America
Miss Hubbell Recovers From Operation at Orange Hospital
Miss Affa Wood Hubbell, a retired Mount Dora teacher, is recovering in Orange Hospital, Orlando, after an operation last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hubbell
Affa Wood Hubbell
Orange Hospital
Orlando
Mount Dora School
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Med
Louis Denbroeder
Denbroeder
John A Stoner
New York City
Villa Dora
Walter Sheldon
Charles Earl
Curb
Donnelly Street
Carl T. Fuller
Cleveland
Matthias Caley
Metamora
Mich
Matt
Sam Moswell
Swifts
Bridgman
En Fee Meares
al Maben
Gale Taylor
E. Colonial Dr
Cheney
City Airport
Fla
Paint & Body Shop
Highland ST
Turkey
Eustis
Mount Dora RD
Gorham Kine Eowaap
Reaewls
Gorham
Goruan Farmas
Goruam Lyak
Christmas Gift Headquarters
Merry Company
Jungle Drive Inn
Amah
Merry Xmas
Sunset Valley Dairy
Parker Bros
Tin
Central Waste Material Co
Atlantic and
Kaley Ave
U. S. Army
U. S. Air Force
Tampa Tribune Central
P. O
Eustis, Fla
J. G. Ray, JR
Merry Christmas
Story Bros
Eustis, Florida
Edenfield Jewelry
W. Main ST
Leesburg
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