Ladies Society Meeting Setup For February 21
The Social Ladies Society will meet Friday afternoon February 21 at 2 30 pm to discuss important community business and will hold a regular monthly missionary meeting at 3 pm.
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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1941
Page
5
Card Club Hosts Large Social for Members in Community Building
The social room hosted a Monday Card Club event honoring husbands. A six o'clock dinner was served. The evening featured placards and twenty eight tables set for games and socializing.
Auction Night At Club Event Promises Prizes For Members
The report notes a Monday afternoon party where Mrs Owens won the prize at auction and Mrs M John received five hundred. Future events include a follow-up auction led by J Babcock and Mrs W A Conrad with F G Miller at five hundred as entries, starting at 2 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Contract
Wm. Fink
Club
Demuth
Owens Ao
M. John
Ie J. Babcock
W. A. Conrad
F. G. Miller
Eastern Stars Sponsor Benefit Card Party Planned
The Eastern Stars host a community benefit card party on Friday February 28 at 8:00 p m Tickets available from members or at the door Mrs Agnes Cameron chairs ticket sales Hostesses include Miss Kathleen Galloway for contract Mrs Eleanor Jackson for auction and Mrs Pearl Camp for canasta Five hundred Chinese checker boards present with no cash prizes A door prize is offered Mrs Tymie Fulford handles refreshments Miss Doris Camp chairs the ways and means committee and serves as party chairperson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Stars
Eastern Star
Agnes Cameron
Kathleen Galloway
Eleanor Jackson
Pearl Camp
Tymie Fulford
Doris Camp
Ways and
The
Masquerade Dance a Great Success for Tourist Club
The Tourist Club masquerade dance drew strong attendance with over forty masked participants. Prizes honored best dressed couple, best dressed man and woman, most unique and orig inal costumes, and several comical and clown categories attended by community members. The event ended with dancing and a final grand march, and a final party is scheduled this Saturday at 8 15 at the Community Building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle ——S
Barge. Berge
Ru Orel
Fred Watts
Geo. Wilson
Lu Crittenden
Mary E. Hagen
Hackett
Kenty
Edna Coon
Gilbert Jones
Otto
Kraus
Residents and visitors share Mount Dora updates
A stream of personal notices lists residents and guests returning home from cities like Chicago Albany and Cleveland citing illnesses travels and visits. Mentions include Mr Paul Milner Mrs John Bruner Henry Stein the Hegges Hopkins DeMuth and many local families with sorority elections and a Legion Auxiliary event noted.
Winter visitors and deaths mark Sorrento notes
Sorrento resident Parker Stacy of Syracuse travels toward Zephyr Hills to visit relatives. Ralph Warner Sheldon dies in Zephyr Hills after a three month illness, after living winters in Sorrento with his wife in Walcott New York, funeral held at Coober and burial at Sorrento cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parker Stacy
Syracuse
New York
Sorrento
Stacy
Zephyrhills
Mrs. Stanton
Ohio
Eustis
Nickerson
Ford
Cowart
Miss Allen
Ralph W. MeChas
Barnett
University of Florida
Parsons
Orlando
Ralph Warner Sheldon
Mt Sorrento
Walcott
N. Y
Coober
Rrento
Sheldon
Florida funeral service draws crowd from New York and Florida
Relatives of Mrs. Sheldon and about twenty five New York friends wintering in Florida attended services at Sorrento cemetery. Miss Doris from Southern College in Lake area also present. Many floral pieces were sent by friends in Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eral
Sheldon
Twinty
New York
Florida
Doris
Southern College
Lake
Sorrento
Villa Evans Items Delights Winter Guests at the Villa
Miss Fannie Noonan hosts visitors at the Villa Evans offering warm hospitality and orange juice to inquirers about roads and towns. A list of late arrivals includes Grace Hauck Terrecks Mercer Van Deusen and others from New York Ohio and Michigan. The Misses Quennard and Davis hosted an informal tea with wintering friends as Fannie Noonan and Mrs Geo Thayer attended. Luncheons and teas await the public by advance reservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Noonan
Grace Hauck
Ter
Evelyn
Daytona Beach
Frank Terreck
Pickerel
Wis
Mercer
Loginan
Mich
C. R. van Deusen
Floral Park
N. Y
Bette
Detroit
A. S. Kittelberger
Lakewood
Ohio
Grace I. Quennard
Port Jefferson
L. 1
Mabel E. Davis
C. D. Arnold
L. L
Quennard
Davis
Winter Park
Tangerine
Nettie
Emma Fitch
Flushing
Becker and
New York City
Housted
Portland
Maine
Geo. D. Thayer
Bradenton Adopts Tax Settlements Amid Delinquent Debt Talk
A Bradenton report notes ongoing efforts to settle delinquent taxes and ease collections. The piece mentions low property valuations and a regional push for fire protection measures in Florida while highlighting state projects and local fiscal adjustments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Pete
Bradenton
Sean Sog
Peer Raterae Mb
Abe West Palm
Florida
Phon
Fuller
Florida Public Service analyses 1940 business and pay
Florida Public Service Corp analyzes 1940 operations noting an 8.9 percent rise over 1939 due to phosphate mine demand amid war. Payroll climbs 9 percent to 682 664.91 dollars. taxes up 14.7 percent with 74 percent local. Fuel costs rise. rates down slightly since last year but at 50 percent of 1930 levels. Florida Power offers a 24 percent bonus to 1940 employees earning 160 dollars monthly or less. Governor Holland cuts 22 auto tax office staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida Public Service Corporation
Florida Power
H.C.L
Lee
Florida
Holland
Parson Family Humor and New Library Additions
A lively string of funny Parson anecdotes illustrates his clever resolves. The Parson and his wife guide daily life, with the wife slipping in hints while washing clothes. The piece notes several new books at the Mount Dora Library, listing titles and authors across fiction, mystery, and non fiction categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartzel Eee
Ray Kauffman
Katherine Pinkerton
Far North
Wilderness E
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Falls to Oviedo in Local Doubleheader
Oviedo stars Beasley with 11 points lead a 26-24 boys win over Mount Dora in a lively rivalry. Oviedo girls edge Mount Dora 24-16 as Johnson and Shipes top scorers with 12 and 8. In the next night, Mount Dora’s Hurricanettes win 44-38 over Eustis, Geraldine Harper scoring 25 of 38. In the boys game Mount Dora loses 31-26 with Felton Dean scoring 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Oviedo
Mount Dora Lads
Beasley
Felton Dean
Bardard McCabe
David French
Oveido
Johnson
Jean Shipes
M.d.hs
Hurricanettes
Eustis Girls
Geraldine Harper
Marilyn MacLelland
Teachers Exhibit at Lake County Fair in Eustis
Lake County elementary teachers will participate in the school exhibit at the Lake County Fair in Eustis March 10 15. County Superintendent Frank Banning and school principals visited the fairgrounds to view the display prepared by county schools including home economics manual training commercial and other departments. The exhibit aims to be the most comprehensive ever shown at a Florida fair, per Lake County Fair Association president L L Polk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Eustis
Frank Banning
Florida
L. L. Polk
Lake County Fair Association
Glenn T. Richards Dies After Illness in Florida
Glenn Thomas Richards 50 died in a Eustis hospital on February 13 after a lingering illness. Former Guilford New York resident spent winters in Mount Dora. Survived by father George A. Richards and sister Mrs Alfred W. Little of Delhi New York. Funeral services held at France Funeral Parlor on Saturday with Rev T D Schene officiating. Body to be buried in Oxford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glenn Thomas Richards
Eustis Hospital
Guilford
N. Y
Mount Dora
George A. Richards
Senate
Alfred W. Little
Delhi
France
T. D. Sehene
Oxford
M D H S Basketball Schedule 1940 41
Sr Class Play Friday February 21 at Community Auditorium Tavares ae girls Monday February 24 Apopka boys and girls February 26 Here Home games at 7 30 p m
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Community Auditorium
Tavares
Apopka
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Ladies Society
Frigidaire Electrical Appliances
Paul B. Brown Co
Fiegin Bldg
W. J. Patton
Patton Metal Works
C. E. S. Benefit Card Party
Mrs. Tanner
Crane’s Beauty Shop
Slenderizing Department
Esther
Atwater Ave
Prin UP Ra
MT. Lille
CM EN
Tat
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Rao Rae Tan
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Jack Oakie Wanes
BANCROFT _ AMN LYDON
Gilles
Elsie
Clarence E. Mulford
Paramount Picture
RKO Radio Picture
Geee Raymond
Sage Carson
Philip Merivale
Lucile Watson
Paul W. Milner
Chicago
Ninth Avenue
John F. Bruner
Rggene
Mr. Henry Stein
Chill
Fred Hegge
Detroit, Mich
J. J. West
Nevil Monroe Hopkins
Burgess DeMuth
Toledo, Ohio
G. E. DeMuth
Rhodes Street
Mary B. Aley
W. F. Bennett
Albany
George Lashar
Lake County Medical Center
Oliver Hall
Rochester, N. H
Mount Dora Friends
Hilda Streeton
Robert I, Wise
Eileen Molberg
Wayzata, Minn
Miami
David Coffin, Jr
Jacksonville
Lester Balstead
Bridgeport, Conn
Mrs
Cleveland Heights
Eugene Allen
Henry Jewett Orth, Jr
Frederick, Md
T. M. Kramer
Fort Lauderdale
Lower East Coast
Mary Louise Rehbaum
Alfred Rehbaum
Zeta Tau al
Stetson University
Miss Rehbaum
Stetson
Dale D. Thompson
East Liverpool
Grand View Hotel
Charles Purvience
Mr. Thompson
George C. Thompson
McDonald and
Fifth
Fifth Avenue
Grand View
J. R. Tucker
L. F. Zrence
H. D. Overhiser
Chamberlain
Geo. Dahlia
Eview
Leesburg
Zoe Buzzell
American Legion Auxiliary
Tracy M. Kramer
Be Webb
Chivslante Tenn
Arenes
H. L. H. Blair
Cleveland
Kramer
Webb
Mr. Webb
Villa Evans
Mount Dora Electric Company
Highland Ave
Hale
Barry’s
Nestles
Rockwood’s
Westren
Oliver Strange
Sapphira
Willa Cathier
Random Harvest
James Hilton
Marshbanks
Kathleen Norris
Vermont
Anne Miller Downes
Littlejohn
Martin Flavin
Mary Roberts Heinhart
Paul Revere Square
Louise Andrews Kent
Katharine Dunlap
Robert Wilder
Josephine Lawrence
Lorimers
Englis Fletcher
Carolina
Warmick Deeping
Delilah
Marcus Goodrich
Stars
Lida Larrimore
Sheila Spilky
Rumford Riddles
Rumford
Box K
Rhatie Island
First National Bank
First National Bank OF
Federal Reserve System
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
D. R. Edgerton
George
Yowell-Drew
MR. G
T. Richards
H. S
Los Angeles
Wilbrink
L. W. Gould
Mt.Dora
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