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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1942
Page
5
Mount Dora Chapter No. 103 O E S meets at the Masonic Hall at 8 p m. A report on the bene fit board party will be presented. All members and visiting Stars are invited to attend during wartime conditions.
Preparations near completion for a Friday turkey supper and Valentine party sponsored by the Ladies Aid. All tickets are sold. The church will be attractively decorated by Mrs. F. A. Whiting, Miss Bertha Eddy, and Miss Bordon. New kitchen equipment is being installed. after the fellowship supper, games will be played.
The Monday Social Club met with fifteen tables playing contract pinochle or five hundred. Mrs. Irone won contract prize, Mrs. Dan Sullivan pinochle, and Mrs. J. Mills five hundred. Next week hosts named for each game. Also announced MR and MRS BAILEY FORTY EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY with reception on January 30 postponed due to illness and celebrated at Mount Dora with guests including Mrs. Mary B. Johnson and others.
The King's Daughters held a Monday meeting at Community Church to raise funds for charitable cases. A food sale is set for Saturday morning February 21 in the Donnelly avenue room between Hale's Grocery and the Hotel Mount Dora Coffee Shop.
Mount Dora Temple No 12 Pythian Sisters install 1942 officers February 6 with Past Chief Phyllis Griffin Most Excellent Chief Jessie Graves Excellent Senior Helen Parker Excellent Junior Mildred Greene Manager Louise Silver Mistress of Records and Correspondence Arlie Wilder Mistress of Finance Florence Ault Protector Frances Harvey Guard Alma Mills Pianist Ruth Williams Ada Moon installs. Louise Silver named press correspondent.
Miss Carowin Hall daughter of Mr and Mrs C M Hall married John Homer Wright son of Mr and Mrs W J Wright of Green Cove Springs in Delaney Baptist Church Orlando. Ceremony by Rev Carl Howell with music by Mrs W C Walker and solos by Eva Maude Symonds. Attendants included sister Mrs A D Gresham matron of honor and Willis Wright best man. The couple left for Dayton Tenn to attend Bryan College then Maan and Kertaie while Mr Wright serves at Camp Wheeler.
Mount Dora resident who attended Mount Dora High School and graduated in 1940 later studied at Bryan College and has recently been employed in Orlando according to local records.
Ossie Pearl Ginther and Robert S Daniel were married in a double ring ceremony on a Saturday afternoon February 7 at 5 PM. The wedding took place at the bride’s grandparents home in Sorrento with Rev. Carl A Howell officiating and Miss Juanita Ginther as maid of honor.
Mrs. Homer D Case of Orlando and Miss Sarah Frances Daniel assisted in serving. The couple will settle in Panama City where Daniel works as clerk for the Order ee of the International Pa per. Mrs Daniel, daughter of Mrs Charlotte Ginther of Philadelphia, is a Mount Dora High School graduate and former bookkeeper at Goethe Hamper Mill in Mount Dora. Daniel, son of Mr and Mrs Paul F Daniel of Panama City, is a Tavares High School graduate.
Personal notices report Mrs. Willard H Sprague ill at Lake County Medical Center. David Bryan Wiley enlists in the Navy. Carrie True spends part time at Rest A While Grove after illness. Mrs Ayers visiting with Fenn family in Brooksville. Mrs A M Cameron in Lake County Medical Center with bronchial pneumonia. Mrs Ralph Devereaux visiting relatives in North Gerard Pa. De Van Voorhis family visiting Lake Gertrude home. Wilbur C Whitney family visiting sister Clara Whitney on McDonald Street. Mrs Robert N White returned to St Augustine after short visit at Sleewood Lake Ola. Perry B James and daughters Katherine and Dorothea Fai visit Killian family. Jerry Daniels and Mrs Philip Bachert weekend in St Petersburg visiting relatives. Connie Perry and Leona Rayber from Solon Ohio visiting. Curtis Wise, war worker, home briefly from Jacksonville. C Harold Brown and Mrs A A Tanner hosting an indefinite stay. Brown runs dairy business and Dairy Cottage. connected with Philadelphia firm.
Mr and Mrs Stewart Roberts of Lake City announce the birth of a daughter Anne Sanchez at 4 p m February 1 in Lake City Hospital. Both mother and baby are well and at home. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs B Roberts and Mr and Mrs A Shhonenberger.
Mr John Mathew Welch 75 of Mount Plymouth formerly of Detroit Michigan died Saturday night after a lingering illness. Survived by widow one daughter Mrs Helen Sullivan one son Harold A one brother Thomas H Welch all of Detroit and one sister Mrs Elizabeth Monn Marine City Michigan. Body taken to Detroit for services and burial.
State Road Department announces bids for a new two lane highway from the mainland to Key West to be advertised February 17. Construction will be in three sections after federal approval of 3 million dollars for Florida City to Key West. The route follows the Florida East Coast Railroad arching 91 miles and rejoining the existing road where the Overseas Road and Toll Bridge District improves sections. Traffic on the current highway remains undisturbed.
John L. Fahs Florida revenue chief and defense savings administrator delivers a $5,000 bond bought by the Florida State Bankers' Association to J. Carlisle Rogers of Leesburg, association secretary. Photo by Powers for Lake County Chamber of Commerce.
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