Social gatherings mark a Sunday School and Yacht Club events
Miss Laura L. McLane hosted a Sunday School class at the Grand View Hotel with children Georgia Kirby Virginia Einsel Authene Palmer Mildred Baldwin Peggy Fleming Ray Weeks Clayton Tremain Bobby Dickson Benny Harvey and Raymond Schwertzel. The Yacht Club hosted a Dickson party for about two hundred guests featuring a Sigma Phi Sorority program from Rollins College with Jeannette Dickson a member.
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Laura L. McLane
Grand View Hotel
Georgia Kirby
Virginia Einsel
Authene Palmer
Mildred Baldwin
Peggy Fleming
Ray Weeks
Clayton Tremain
Bobby Dickson
Benny Harvey
Raymond Schwertzel
Yacht Club
Dicksons
Wedding of Elizabeth Jeter Johnson and Thomas Henry Walker
Miss Elizabeth Jeter Johnson, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. D. T. Johnson of Eustis, wed Mr. Thomas Henry Walker of Durham, N C, in St. Thomas Episcopal Church Eustis on February 20. The reception table featured Mrs. Adam Hazelwood and Mrs. John J. Alvord presiding, with a larger assisting group listed by name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Jeter Johnson
D. T. Johnson
Eustis
Thomas Henry Walker
Durham
N.C
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Adam Hazelwood
John J. Alvord
Mount Dora
W. W. Loy
Henry W. Land
W. Frederick Mantey
Julian E. Markham
Rhoda Simpson
Alexandria Birbeck
Mary Jo Key
Francys Sadler
Adelaide Key
Myrtle
Virginia Jepson
Daphne Banks
Nina Smoak
Mount Dora to Host State Basketball Tournament
The Florida High School Athletic Association awarded Mount Dora the Class C state basketball tournament set for March 7 8 and 9 in B Ferson gym. Sixteen top Class C teams will compete as the public is invited to attend. Also noted are local arrivals and military discharges from Mount Dora residents and Sorrento news items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Florida High School Athletic Association
B. Ferson
William Weigmann
Patterson
N. J
Sorrento
Walter Weinmann
S. H. Cull
Jacksonville
Allene
Cowart
Winter Park
Florida Pen Women
Rollins College
Navy
John Gibson Treadwell
Robert S. Goodman
Gm&3c
IceHouse actor rehearses Sabrina Fair opening next Tuesday
Twenty years ago the Meet the Newcomers series drew IceHouse Players to a prompt. A.R. Crone rehearses for Sabrina Fair at IceHouse Theatre opening next Tuesday. Leslie Sanders Pam Brown visit Stetson University Scholarship Day to take exams and meet campus. Mount Dora High School Key Club elects officers Thomas Norris president Charles Wareing vice president David Brown treasurer Charles Reid secretary. Board of Directors includes Billy Simpson Lofroos and John Lavin.
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IceHouse
A.R. Crone
IceHouse Theatre
Sabrina Fair
Leslie Sanders
Pam Brown
Stetson University
Stetson
FLASH
Key Club
Mount Dora High School
Thomas Norris
Charles Wareing
David Brown
Charles Reid
Billy Simpson
Bones”. Lofroos
John Lavin
Corn Husking Tale Preserves Iowa Farm Fairies Memory
The article recalls a 1923 Boyd County cornhusking contest at Henley Iowa, where twelve huskers competed for a share of a prime 28 acre field with two thousand spectators. Eric Lindquist won with 27 bushels net, earning a fifty dollar bank prize and state contest entry as rural life shifts to larger farming and mechanization.
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Iowa
Boyd County
Henley
Anderson Farm
Des Moines
Waterloo
Lutheran Church
Lutheran Ladies’ Aid Society
Methodist Church
Hoehner
Eric Lindquist
First State Bank
Federal judges seek higher pay and autonomy, claims clash with taxpayers
A letter by forty four judges argues their $40 000 plus salary fails to keep pace with inflation since 1969 and violates Article III. The author condemns judicial pay independence as un-American and urges Congress to act to curb costs and restore accountability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Florida
The Clairvoyant Countess review by Edythe Ward
Dorothy Gilman presents a witty mystery romp with a psychic countess who finds employment as a clairvoyant. The tale introduces Detective Lieutenant Pruden and a chic client, mixing humor with crime detection as the new heroine debuts on a Harlem street.
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Clairvoyant Countess
Dorothy Gilman
Doubleday
Eighth Street
Madame Karitska
Pruden
Mount Dora letters commend festival, critique odors and stamps
A reader condemns the Mount Dora disposal plant odor and merchants resisting the annual Art Festival. The letter lauds festival coverage by the TOPIC, condemns the US Postal Service stamp issue, and praises festival promotion. It also thanks the paper for its festival coverage and notes philatelic protests by the American Philatelic Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Philatelic Press
Orlando Sentinel Star
U. S. Postal Service
American Philatelic Society
Philatelic Fraternity
Fernald Hutchins
Mount Dora
Lake County subdivision plan Estuary setback discussed
The Lake County meeting adjourned after the discussion of a revised subdivision plan for 14 lots along Morningside Drive. The three waterfront fronting lots will be beach partial lots on the Lake Gertrude side, integrated with opposite lots. county zoning allows only one house per lot, avoiding waterfront homes.
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Lake County
Morningside Drive
Lake Gertrude
Vaughn
Weather Notes From Mount Dora February Readings
Mount Dora Fire Department weather station records daily temperatures from February 18 to 24. Highs ranged from 80 to 86 degrees, and lows from 42 to 66 with measurable precipitation on February 19, 20, and 22 totaling 2.37 inches for the year.
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Mount Dora
Low
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Mount Bora
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West Fifth Avenue
P.O. Box
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Congress
Book Review
Edythe Ward
Maryland Fried Chicken
Dairy Queen
Golden Triangle
New England
Africa
Crone
Albert.r. Crone
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