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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1941
Page
5
The Ocklawaha Chapter DAR announces its annual St Distaff Day meeting at the home of J Ray. It will be an all day event with a covered dish luncheon at noon. Date and day are provided in the notice.
The Ladies Aid of the Aid Society at Community Church will meet Friday afternoon December 26 at 3 30 in the chapel to elect a president and discuss matters of interest to the society. Full attendance is desired.
Despite Christmas rush ten tables played Monday afternoon at the social club. Mrs. A Shhonenberger won at contract and Mrs. Frances Shapcott won at five hundred. Hostesses next week are Miss Doris Camp and Mrs. Pearl Camp with play starting at 2 15. All card players invited.
Mount Dora winter visitors attended a Shuffleboard Club get-together at the new building Friday night. A large pot luck supper fed 55 guests before card games and chats. Organizers praised local cooks and pledged more similar events this season.
The bride, an ism and Professor of Bible at Oglethorpe University, will be enrolled as a student at the university.
Personal notes show Robert Wells of Michigan home for the holidays. Miss Blanchard returns from Camp Roosevelt for Christmas. Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Ray visit from Atlanta to see son J. G. Ray Jr. and family. Miss Mary Agnes Harding spends vacation at home. Miss Joy MacLelland visits grandparents Mr and Mrs George Nuttall of Miami.
Charles Boxell traveled from Marion Indiana to spend the Christmas holidays with his mother Mrs Lois Boxell.
Mr and Mrs George W Andrews of Orange Massachusetts have rented an apartment at 348 Tremain Court for the season. Mr and Mrs Roland Morse left Saturday for Boston Massachusetts to spend Christmas with their daughter Miss Janet Morse and other relatives.
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Hurlburt and Miss Eleanore Minkley plan Christmas at Camp Blanding to visit Corporal Thomas Hurlburt. Mr. and Mrs. J. D Mosteller, newlyweds, will spend the holiday here with Mr. and Mrs. A. J Mosteller.
Mrs. W. M. Kennedy returns after a two week visit in Fayetteville North Carolina with her son in law and daughter Lieutenant and Mrs Lemuel C Downs remains.
Mr and Mrs L M Hurst and children Marian and Dick of Harrisburg Pa visit Mr and Mrs J L Lotz for a week before continuing on to Miami.
Mr and Mrs J C Hale hosted a Christmas party for the Community Church choir and their families last Thursday after practice at the Hotel Mount Dora. Refreshments featured a two tiered white and green cake with a musical staff design.
Stuart Sadler returns from Annapolis to spend Christmas with his mother Mrs. S S Sadler and is greeted warmly by friends. Donald Thompson returns from Jacksonville for the holidays hoping for Navy acceptance. if not he will resume work in Jacksonville.
C M Gudgeon returns from Panama City where he completed special electrical work. He plans to stay home though he has been offered further employment there.
Mrs Alexander Kerr arrived Friday from Malden Massachusetts to join Mr Kerr who has been in Florida for weeks. She expresses disbelief at the current Florida weather in a light note.
Mrs J M Blaine and baby Fay of Jacksonville are spend ing the week with Mrs Blaine s parents Mr and Mrs Bayard Roberts at Tangerine. Mr Blaine will join them for Christmas.
Mrs. Thomas H. Cooley and Betty arrive from Wrightsville Beach North Carolina to spend the holidays at their Sylvan Shores home. Major Cooley cannot leave camp due to duties.
Miss Iris Carolyn Edmunds wed Rev. J. D. Mosteller at Pine Grove Baptist Church near Thomson Georgia. Officiating was Rev. T A Burrell with Southern pine decor and gladioli. Bridesmaid Edith Edmunds and groom Pierce Edmunds attended. The couple plans a Saint Augustine visit before returning to pastoral duties in Georgia.
William C Livesay and Walter Brantley from Mount Dora Florida report to the Army Replacement Training Center at Fort Knox Kentucky for mechanized training. Miss Lucy Girard and Miss Aimee Girard of New York City are visiting Mount Dora over the holidays as guests of Dr and Mrs Frederic W Mar. The sisters previously taught at schools led by Dr Mar. Rev and Mrs Paul Montgomery.
A Jacksonville Florida family led by Mr and Mrs Lewis Montgomery and their three children visit Leesburg and Mount Dora for Christmas dinner with Rev and Mrs Floyd Montgomery. Carolyn Montgomery also joins the gathering.
Mrs. Frank Hubbard and Mrs. George Zell travel for the holidays to Long Island for a brothers and sisters reunion with their families. They spent time in Arlington, Virginia with Mr. and Mrs. F. G. MacMahon, who later joined them in New York.
Mrs Charles L Marsh is recovering in the Army Air base hospital at Orlando after a successful operation. Friends report she came through well and extend Christmas wishes for a speedy recovery.
Miss Jeanne Colley a student at Van derbilt University Nashville and Carey Colley at Columbia Military Academy Columbia Tenn are home for the holidays. They are enjoying festive visits with Dr. and Mrs. S C Colley and their friends.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Spencer of Princeton New Jersey and Miss Pomona Davidson a Simmons College student Boston Massachusetts travel to Mount Dora to spend Christmas with Dr D B Spencer and Mr and Mrs Frank Davidson It marks Pomona’s first meeting with her grandfather and her father since she entered college and friends celebrate her return.
The Community Church staged a Sunday pageant titled Why the Chimes Rang that highlighted selfless giving. Miss Johnnie Mae Stanley trained the children while Mrs Etta M McDonald read, with Mrs Ruth Stanley and Mrs Celia Stein Claflin delivering solos and Mrs Florence Hanscom directing the organ.
President Roosevelt, honorary head of the Boy Scouts of America, thanks Scouts and leaders for their role in national strength and morale. He praises truth, loyalty, courage and helpfulness and urges citizens to stay physically fit mentally alert and morally straight.
We thank friends for kindness, floral offerings, and words of sympathy during the sickness and deaths of our wife and mother. May God bless each of you. Otis M. Hale, Mr. and Mrs. John Treadwell, Otis L. Hale, Rose Hale. The privilege of being rich implies the ability to take care of yourself.
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