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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1941
Page
1
The PTA lunch room appeals for screw top jars of any size to store canned vegetables. WPA workers and garden surplus supply ready. daily 175 to 190 students eat in the lunch room. Jars may be left at the school starting March first. contacts Mrs. J. M. Turner Mrs. W. A. Vincent or Mrs. Geo. Coffin for pickup.
Lakeside Inn continues to thrive since November 1, 1940 with Friday entertainment, weekly bridge and card games, Sunday concerts, and canal boat rides. Public events invite attendance while a long list of guests arriving after February 1 includes numerous named individuals and couples from across the country.
Alfred Rehbaums Mount Dora Hardware celebrates 25 years in Mount Dora with the slogan In Mount Dora 25 Years Growing All the Time. He notes lean years but has built a strong Lake County business and advertising presence, with the Topic also turning 25 next month.
Members of the Mount Dora Tourist Club attended last evening's concert, praised for high quality performances. Florence Gil led the program with van James Itcomb Riley and soprano Mo Fierie Unter, Marion Peck Tharnes also performing. audience pleased, artists repeated, and the committee kept programs short. Next week the Ambassador Male Quartet and Bell Ringers will perform under the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce.
The senior play Professor How Could You will be staged Friday evening February 21 in the Community Building. Cast includes Sheila Spilky as Miss Tootsie Bean Charles Boxell as One Round Bean Felton Dean as Barnaby True Blue Boggins Betsy Kramer as Aunt Boo McGillcuddy Winifred Harding as grandmother to Professor Keats Perry Wilbur Vanzant plays Keats Perry Jean Shipes as Valerie Whitman Joanne French as Priscilla Morrley Blanchard as Vicky Rannan college senior Tommy as John Appleby and Lulu provide strong support. Local children Marian Roseborough Wilma Thompson Bobby Turner appear in one scene.
Mount Dora Junior Woman's Club members entertained the Eustis Tourist Club with the comedy Mushrooms Coming Up on February 3. Local soprano Miss Saltsman performed songs amid Marian Peck Thomas piano solos, while a light plot centered on a luncheon hostess and a dog killed by a truck.
The fourteenth annual Mount Dora Eustis Art League meeting at Lakeside Inn on February 7 elected President W J Patton and VPs Charles Shaw and Anna Thorpe. Irma Ohmes was secretary and Mrs. Wilson Smith treasurer. Joseph Newman of the Newman School of Art gave a humorous talk. Next meeting set for February 14 at the Eustis Gun Club.
A dance for the young people will be held Friday night at the Yacht Club after the high school basketball game. All young people are invited.
February 12 to 22 mark National Defense Week with the Lake County Guard parading in Eustis Florida. Employers are asked to excuse workers on Saturday afternoon February 22 and permit Guard members in their employ to take part in the parade. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas H. Cooley commands the Lake County Guard.
The Lawn Bowling Club increases membership to 120 with Dr W G Downes of Hartford Connecticut and M F Allen of Ashtabula Ohio joining. The year book notes a rain disrupted DeLand to Mount Dora social and reports scores from eight rinks, plus committee appointments for 1941 and a February match at Orlando Sunshine Park ending 43 to 96.
A brief public note urges residents to buy a poppy on Poppy Day Saturday to support veterans. The message emphasizes remembrance and community participation with a simple call to action.
Mayor I M V Simpson proclaims Saturday February 15 as Poppy Day in Mount Dora urging citizens to wear Memorial Poppies sold by the American Legion and American Legion Auxiliary to honor veterans the disabled and dependents.
Kiwanis club hosts Mount Dora Scout Troop at today’s luncheon. Jim Burden of Central Florida Council and D D Roseborough speak on Abraham Lincoln. Inter-club picnic set for Sunday February 16 at Crystal Lake Park Lake Wales at 1 p.m. attendees bring lunches. Special program at Singing Tower at 3 p.m.
Lt Col Thomas H Cooley of Mount Dora has been ordered to report at Fort Benning Georgia for active duty on June 15. A state senator from Lake County he was allowed to defer regular army service until after the state legislature session. He will continue as Lake County Guard commander and serve in the state senate during the 60 day session then proceed to Fort Benning as a training officer with the regular army.
An exhibit and sale of arts and crafts from Berea Kentucky mountain folk will open Tuesday February 18 at 9 am at Lakeside Inn. The event, sponsored by the Women’s Society for Christian Service of the Methodist church, features hand woven goods wooden ware and baskets from the Hill Crafters’ Guild with Guild directors J Edw Davis and wife present to discuss activities.
Eighteen Scouts attended last Wednesday’s meeting led by new Scoutmaster Mr. McMurray with Mr. Barker and Mr. Graves. National Boy Scout Week urges wearing uniforms, and Kiwanis Club funds free admittance for uniformed Scouts to the Philadelphia theater showing Norman Tuckett.
Street Department crews pick up garbage on Mondays and Thursdays. Housekeepers should place trash at a convenient collection point on those days.
Mount Dora crushed Tavares 21-5 in the boys game while the Hurricanettes edged the visiting girls 25-21 as Felton Dean and Bobby Vincent pace the offense. Weirsdale visits produced a 30-15 MDH S victory for the Mount Dora boys. Jean Shipe led with 13 points.
Town of Mount Dora notes the death of Clerk Treasurer and Tax Collector William J Johnson. Council and officials mourn his public service and bid sympathy to his family. A copy of the resolution is sent to the widow, Mount Dora Topic, and recorded in council minutes. Passed February 11 1941 in open council. Isolde Sahlis L C Jerue President of Council M V Simpson Mayor concurred.
A local sale invites customers to arrive around nine on February fifteenth at the store beside Topic, offering parts of cakes beans plants and more. Shoppers are urged to call ahead and buy a lot, then purchase additional items.
The senior class presents the play Professor How Could You. Show date is February 21 with ticket sales starting now.
The Yacht Club hosted a successful card party led by J J Alvord to raise funds for the Episcopal Church of Eustis. Mr and Mrs Charles Gebhart entertained a house guest, Baron Bergner of Lebanon Pa, for dinner. The Ramp officially opened Monday with the lime stone walkway smoothed and finished. The Ramp eases access to the second floor and buffet suppers remain popular. This week's menu features Italian Sogo Meat Balls hot rolls weiners salad cottage cheese relishes orange sherbet cookies coffee. Reservations call Lavonne at 3841. The next dance with special entertainment is February 22 with Eddie King as host.
The Legion Auxiliary sponsors Poppy Day with handmade paper poppies created by disabled veterans in government hospitals and workshops. Proceeds aid veterans without substantial government compensation, offering them self respect and financial support. Buy a poppy Saturday February 15.
Two key changes in the 1940 law shift liability basis from net to gross income and lower exemptions. Single persons lose $200 and married or head of family lose $500 in exemptions, while all must file if gross income meets the new thresholds. Early filing helps accuracy and reduces government backlog. taxpayers should study instructions and bring their 1939 return when seeking help.
Otis Hale shows off his new station wagon he says lets him go where he wants and return reliably, a contrast to his old car.
John B. Griswold was named by Mayor Simpson to serve as Town Clerk Treasurer and Tax Collector for the unexpired term of Wm J Johnson. The council approved the appointment which lasts through the current term. Griswold takes over duties Wednesday with a 1 dollar annual salary plus 175 dollars as tax assessor. He has held key business posts in Cleveland Midland Indianapolis and has lived in Mount Dora since 1922. Bond set at 15000. An audit covering through February 1 was ordered. Fire station final payment approved. Switch house storage eye bids opened for next week’s special meeting. Gas in the Community Building kitchen will be removed and electric ranges water heater and urn installed with costs split between the town and ladies equipment committee.
The adult choir directed by Mrs. C. M. Gudgeon will present a song service next Sunday evening February 16 at 7 30 in the Community Building auditorium. The program features solos duets quartets and hymns including Praise Him Praise Him It Is Well With My Soul Blessed Assurance There Shall Be Showers of Blessing and Day Is Dying in the West among others with announcements offertory and postlude.
Mrs. F A Day of Milan Ohio Mrs Carrie Gibbs of Lakewood E H Hughes and Mr and Mrs Frank Wahl of East Cleveland and R H Bates of Cleveland Heights are guests at the Davis residence 1414 Donnelly avenue for the season They came via Mrs Howard Cowles and plan to spend winter in Mount Dora instead of St Petersburg joining Mr Hughes to make Mount Dora a central base for motor trips across the state.
Boyce A. Williams of Tavares ends 16 years as Lake County tax collector on February 2 and becomes chairman of the Florida Industrial Commission after appointment by Governor Spessard L. Holland. Mrs. Pearl Cullen of Tavares is named tax collector until 1942, having served as Williams's executive secretary since 1924.
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