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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1941
Page
4
The fragment lists pricing terms with Eevee Price for one year, Sinny Solelelton six months, Eile Idlesadile three months, and Linzie Copy unspecified. Details are incomplete, but indicates varied subscription durations and service names.
The Mount Dora game exploded into rough play with three players sent to the showers for fouls and two ejected for excessive fouls. The column blames the lax referee and criticizes the visiting team while praising Mount Dora’s sportsmanship.
Friends in Mount Dora learn of Mrs Paul C Milner’s death in Evanston Illinois on February 7. Her quiet charm and genuine womanliness touched all who knew her. Active in church social and civic efforts, she volunteered gladly for charitable causes and her memory and dauntless courage will live in the hearts of her devoted circle.
New mail schedule outlines Sunday closures and daily pickup times including 7:00 A.M. and 8:45 A.M. for Tavares Beats Lomas 12:45 P.M. All points north and south 5:00 P.M. All points north and south Incoming Except Sunday Due 7:10 A.M. All points north and south 9:15 A.M. Air mail all points 1:15 P.M. Florida mail 3:45 P.M. All points north and south.
Postmaster C. C. Dooley lists Sunday transport times with 5:00 PM air mail, 9:15 AM air mail, and 3:45 PM train routing both north and south. The schedule reflects star route operations and standard daily mail delivery.
Sanford to Mount Dora No 433 arrives 7 10 A M daily except Sunday. No 431 from Sanford arrives Mount Dora 3 45 P M daily. No 434 from Leesburg to Sanford arrives 1 15 P M daily. No 430 from Umatilla to Sanford arrives 8 15 P M daily. P W Turrentine Agent.
Sentinel editor Warren Roberts hails Lake County Chamber of Commerce and secretary Karl Le as it reports 1940 revenue and investment total of eleven and a half million dollars. Citrus leads with five million. tourists and construction push gains. land cleared for farming rises. county eyes bigger citrus and cotton yields and growth.
The Central Florida Highway Council in Winter Haven on January 31 unanimously endorsed Route 19 as a military and federal defense highway. A resolution prepared by Karl Lehmann of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce and moved by A C Slaughter of the Orlando Chamber of Commerce pledges full cooperation to secure earliest completion and directs copies to press, state and federal officials, and lawmakers.
The Sorrento Woman's Missionary Society welcomed Mrs Paul McClintock of Penny Farms as guest speaker, sharing twenty five years as a missionary in Hainan. About fifty members and guests attended a noon luncheon, with fifteen guests from Lake Mary Presbyterian Auxiliary.
Albert Sidney Herlong Jr longtime Lake County Court judge will celebrate his 32nd birthday on Friday February 14 born 1909 in Manistee Michigan He moved to Florida in 1911 and Lake County in 1920 educated in Leesburg Center Hill and Leesburg High Schools and UF He earned his first dollar picking beans at Center Hill His hobbies are baseball hunting and fishing He is a former Leesburg Kiwanis president active in church and civic life.
Edith Edeburn Keller editor of the Mount Dora Topic will celebrate her 64th birthday on Thursday February 20. Born in 1877 in Pittsburgh she attended public school and Pennsylvania College for Women, moved to Florida in 1909 and Mount Dora in 1914. She is a past president of the Mount Dora Womans Club.
Furnished or unfurnished modern five bedroom home available for sale or lease near a school. Also a beautiful steam heated three bedroom home in Sylvan Shores for sale or lease. Contact Sylvan Shores Hotel Mount Dora Florida. Also a lady or couple to share a five room bungalow in Tangerine with own housekeeping. Found brown glove and key found notices. Horace Greeley saying Go West appears oddly commented in a regional clipping.
The National Defense Program spurs a surge of out of state workers into Florida. Florida’s December 1939 employment offices processed 14 217 out of state unemployment claims, rising to 21 066 in December 1940. Local offices report many residents from other states filing claims in defense project districts, with totals by city ranging from Arcadia to St. Petersburg.
Mrs Harold G Hull of Groveland was elected to her third term as Groveland Woman's Club president and to a second term as Lake County Federation president. At the Federation meeting the officers named to serve until February 1942 included Hull as president and other officers. The federation bought a $25 tuberculosis and health bond and aims to secure a bill through the State Legislature requiring domestic help in Lake County to hold health certificates.
Congregational church service at Donnelly Street Cor 7th Ave led by D. D. Reed with Florence Hanscom as organist and choir director. Worship and sermon scheduled for 11:00 A M guiding youth engagement.
Public church notice invites attendance at Bible study Sunday morning preaching by Brother Grady Fulmer from Winter Garden, 7:30 p m evening service, Wednesday 7:30 p m prayer meeting. A cordial invitation to attend at the Lake Franklin church location.
Cor Grove Street and Badger Avenue parish details for Rev William O Farrell pastor. Sunday Mass schedule first Sunday 8 am and other Sundays 10 30 am with weekday 7 30 am. Confessions Saturdays eves of holy days and first Fridays 7 30 pm. Midweek service Wednesday 7 30 pm. Baptisms Sundays 3 pm.
Sunday 9 45 Sunday School led by S J Robinson 11 00 Morning Worship 6 30 Junior High and Senior High programs listed for evening
The Church of God on Li Street invites worshippers to Sunday school at 10:00 a m and preaching at 11:00 a m. Prayer meeting is Tuesday at 7 45 p m and P E Friday at 7 45 p m. Come and worship with us.
The First Church of Christ Scientist in Eustis Florida lists services at Grove Street and Lemon Avenue with Sunday School at 9 30 a m and Sunday service at 11 a m The Wednesday meeting at 8 p m features testimonies and readings on Christian Science A free reading room in the Fountain Inn building on Sundae street is open daily 2 to 5 p m except Sundays and holidays The Bible and all Christian Science literature may be read borrowed or purchased The public is invited to attend all services and use the reading room
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