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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1934
Page
4
February 19, 1934 Mount Dora Florida reports Kissimmee Cowboys headed for Mount Dora in a pivotal town baseball game. The article notes the Cowboys from Kissimmee challenging Mount Dora with hopes of securing a crucial win.
Mount Dora edged Mount Dora Cowboys 38 to 28 as Coach Turner started his best lineup early to counter a strong Cowboys start. J. G. Ray Jr and Claude Carter led the locals with 12 points combined, while Jennings topped the visitors with 12. Brantley added 11 for Mount Dora.
Harry M. Burton died after months of illness on February 16 1934 at the U S Veterans Hospital in Oteen North Carolina He had lived in Mount Dora for twelve years and ran the One Stop Service Station with his father He served in World War I in the Verdun sector with Battery C 73rd Artillery CAC He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion Post 35 He leaves his widow Marguerite Lindman Burton a sister Maude Burton a son Walden Burton and relatives The funeral was held February 18 1934 at the First Methodist Episcopal Church Mount Dora with Rev G Leon Wells officiating and services by the American Legion Post The local community extends sympathy
Citizens of East Town praise the large white attendance at anniversary exercises. The negroes pay tribute to Dr Duncan Milner and Mr Julius Rosenwald as funds are raised for a general educational program for children.
Leesburg Choral Club will present Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Mikado March 19 at the high school auditorium. The program is under Mrs William Fletcher and Mrs G G Ware with dramatic coach Miss Jane Williams guiding performances. Tickets are available from club members.
Roscoe Wheeler, a watchman at Miami Beach estates, pleaded guilty to aggravated assault against Miss Rita Bartholomew a University of Miami student. He faced six months in jail or a $250 fine plus costs after an altercation that left Bartholomew with a scalp wound and involved gunfire.
The community learns of Mrs Robert T Gould's sudden death at about ten o'clock Friday night. She was 72, born in Hopkinton New Hampshire and lived in Mount Dora as Miss Mary Currier before marrying Mr Gould. Survived by husband and daughter Jessie Gould. Funeral held at Congregational church Tuesday 3 pm. Burial planned in Contoocook New Hampshire.
Mrs. Goulds and accompanying relatives travel by auto to the north after attending the funeral. Mrs. Perkins, cousin, has been with the Goulds this winter, and her niece Miss Brown joined for the funeral before leaving yesterday.
We thank Mount Dora friends for their love and sympathy extended to us during our time of need.
Mrs. Mary Faughnan Kinsey of Irvington New Jersey died in Orlando February 19. Rehbaum Co. handles the remains and will ship them to her northerly home. She leaves husband Newton P. Kinsey and one daughter and was a friend of Mr. and Mrs. Lamoreux of Mount Dora whom she visited.
The passage urges residents to support local business, arguing earning in one city and spending elsewhere harms the home community and public prosperity. It emphasizes civic duty and economic patriotism to boost local commerce and pride.
In the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Lake County Florida Iva E Beyers of Chicago Illinois is named as defendant. The court orders the publication of this notice once weekly for four consecutive weeks in the Mt Dora Topic Mt Dora Florida. Dated January 18 1934. Official seal Geo J Dykes Clerk of Circuit Court Grace Hawthorne Deputy Clerk.
Mrs Lucy Juergens expresses gratitude to the friends of her cousin Mrs Clara Umlauf and her own friends for kindness during illness and sympathy after her death along with appreciation for the flowers.
Tentative table of contents announces profiles and pieces for Rollins Animated Magazine including Foreword by Hamilton Holt Leading Editorial Richard Lloyd Jones Short Story Fanny Hurst travel piece A Trip to Czardis Edwin Granberry The Law Homer S Cummings Poem Richard Burton Their Faces and Their Books Cora Harris Florida Sketch Marjorie Kinnon Rawlings Too Old to Matter William Hazlett Upson My Old Books George A Plimpton Poem Arthur Gutterman Editor In and On the Air Joe Mitchell Chapple An Autumn Ride in the Berkshires Harry P Dewey Business and the New Deal by Roger Babson Poem Joseph C Lincoln.
Florida strawberry growers combat frost by piling pine-straw around fields or using nearby pine woods to shield the crop. When Jack Frost approaches, growers cover plants with pine-straw to shelter both bloom and fruit, an inexpensive emergency method as prices rise.
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