Bird Returns toDowntown Parrakeet Rescued by Club President
A blue parakeet that wandered through downtown last week ended up at the golf course where Club President Willard Wadsworth found it. He handed the bird to Mrs. George Peterson Jr. who recognized it and traced its owner. After a week apart the parakeet was returned to 12 year old Margaret Ann Edenfield whose illness made the reunion especially joyful.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorans
Willard Wadsworth
George Peterson
Clayton Jr
Margaret Ann Edenfield
M. R. Edenfield
Highland Sr
Blackburn New Chairman for Mount Dora Welfare Council
Rev. Robert M. Blackburn named chairman of Mount Dora Health and Welfare Council succeeding Ed Mitchell with Mrs. Pearl Overhiser appointed as the city's representative to promote the establishment of an old folks home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert M. Blackburn
Mount Dora
Health and Welfare Council
Ed Mitchell
Pearl Overhiser
Lake County Seeks State Aid for Schools Bond Priorities
Lake County School Board votes to ask the State Board of Education to indicate all A and B priority projects in the first state bond sale. Total eligible projects amount to 1,461,058 dollars after current year budgeted payments, with about 1.4 million from Amendment No. 1 Funds. The plan includes A priority sites such as Skeen and Groveland elementary schools and several Negro and county schools, plus B priority items like kitchen and cafetorium upgrades and Home Ec labs at Eustis and Mount Dora schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
State Board of Education
Skeen
Groveland
Leesburg
Tax Assessor Sets Filing Visits for 1953 Exemptions
County Tax Assessor Ted Chadie publishes dates for 1953 exemption and property tax filing visits. Mount Dora visit scheduled for March 16 at City Hall. forms must be filed before April 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted Chadie
Mount Dora
Violinist To Give Lakeside Concert
Music lovers are invited to a Lakeside Inn concert Sunday at 7 45 PM. Dr Luda M Spivey president of Florida Southern College will speak. Prof Hahn Basserman and Dr William Spivey will perform with Dean Corning Toll attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lakeside Inn
Dick Edgerton
Luda M. Spivey
Florida Southern College
Hahn Basserman
U. S
William Spivey
Corning Toll
G E Barnard 88 Dies in Contoocook New Hampshire
G E Barnard aged 88 died in a Contoocook New Hampshire hospital last week after a fall on an icy street. A winter resident of Mount Dora for years he first began visiting Mount Dora in 1904 with Mrs Barnard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
George E. Barnard
Contoocook
N. H
Bernard
Residents of Third and Tremainets Home Noted in Obituary
The text notes occupation of the home at Third and Tremainets and mentions regular southbound trips for about a century. It also records that Mrs. Bertha Taylor Barnard, wife, survives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Third and Tremainets
Bertha Taylor Barnard
Also Mentioned on This Page
IceHouse Players
Ben Muecke
Earl
Florence LaBarre
Berrien McCain
Walter J. Patton
Mildred Leatherbury
Margo Hosford
Jean Patterson
Marie Flint
Sara McCain
Louise Woodworth
Edna Patton
Mae Buckman
Blackburn
Don Conway
Mount Dora Florida
Boston
Cole Slaw
Jabarre's
Orange
A & M Electric Company
J. L
Lonnie’ Rigdon
Francis F. Henderson
Highland‘st
U.K
Tavares
Colgate
Armour
Oleo
Sunlite
Sally Southern
Breen
Reo
Kingan
Sam
Dolly Madison
Summer Isles
Heinz Macaroni
Chase & Sanborn Coffee
Scott County Park and Beans
U. S. NO
Florida
Lakeside
Ruskin
Wise Boat Works
G. E. Barnard
Glenn H. Mummaw
Donnelly
Fifth Avenue
American Osteopathic Association
Wi &S
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