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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1930
Page
2
Fragmentary notice from Mount Dora Florida announcing editor Downs and plant superintendent Price with prices earlier in the document. The text appears to be a damaged historical newspaper item from 1916 with postal and publication details.
A writer describes returning to community life after five years away, expressing mixed feelings of regret at leisure lost and pleasure in reconnecting with business peers, friends, and press associations. She notes renewed membership, social reengagement, and a sense of belonging within the local press community.
In a letter the Mount Dora Topic editor seeks leniency and broad public cooperation. She notes new management, growing enterprises, municipal development, and aims to cover all local interests fairly. Readers are urged to send news items and information about activities to help readers stay informed.
A black cat turned white from fright during severe storms in the North Sea and English Channel. Its crossing may not change the luck of the man who encountered it on that path.
Consulting engineer Henry Mace Payne of the American Mining Congress warns industry is drifting back to small towns. He notes rural progress in 25 years with better schools roads and communications enabling towns to attract high wage jobs. The shift marks a new industrial revolution favoring rural centers over cities.
Congress approves a 4.5 million dollar allocation for 1931 road construction in and around national forests. Funds are apportioned to states by national forest area and park land value relative to total government land. Florida receives 13,534 pounds.
Our congratulations to Mount Dora neighbors on the election of Mr. Welles E. Lackey for Mayor. This insures an efficient business administration. Mayor Lackey is well known in Apopka and is in all respects a high class man. He has run a jewelry store in Mount Dora and been active in civic affairs.
The literary column will publish on Thursday afternoons starting this week, delaying this week’s issue to Friday to include New Year boat race coverage. Authors note possible Friday release otherwise, subject to no accidents.
Miss Florence Smock of Eustis was named the healthiest girl in the United States in a national health contest. Attorney C A Boyer of Orlando returned from New York City as winner of the strong man championship of the world, underscoring the Lakes and Hills area as a prime Florida living spot.
Mr and Mrs C H Geer and Mr and Mrs Kneeland of Northampton Massachusetts are wintering in Mount Dora occupying Miss Thornes house on Tremain Street near Woodland Mr Greer formerly edited the Northampton Gazette for many years succeeding his father who held the post for decades The paper belonged to the Geers for a century before Mr C H Geer sold it last year
Bob Holly vows action against editors who repurpose his Just in Passing as straight editorial copy. He notes they were told they could use it any way they please and urges caution in handling the material.
A collage of satirical comments on science, politics, and society. Notes include Millikan on ad ébeus and cosmic rays, Hoover appointing a woman, women in census jobs, fashion trends, lobbying in Pennsylvania, taxation ideas, Grundy’s stump role, humorists, Capone’s peace claim, Klansman gifts, and holiday dentist emergencies.
A Florida newspaper column laments high telephone costs for Scots abroad and mocks political grandstanding. It cites Gov Carlton on unity and notes planning for a crime commission, fruit shipping rights, Med Fly debates, and Muscle Shoals. The piece critiques Congress, public works, and whiskey advertising.
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce records a flawless year with sun on every day from January to December 31. Only Christmas Eve showed threatened gloom before a brief solar break, with minor sunshine gaps totaling minutes on a few spring days while a hurricane approached Florida.
Wayne Richardson, former Mount Dora sophomore, will present Tunes of 29 a musical comedy of his own composition at the City Auditorium Eustis January 10 at 8 oclock. The cast features Senior High School pupils of Eustis with Miss Georgia Kirby once of Mount Dora as pianist. Fans show strong local interest in the event.
R Hiatt spends the week in Tampa taking measurements and drawing plans for the South Florida Fair booth the space 12 feet deep 60 feet long will feature home demonstration displays Mrs Mary S Allen discussed department requirements and inspected the booth during Christmas season in Tampa
Lake County Poultry association informs members that the January meeting is moved to the eighth at 8 p m in the courthouse to elect a director to the Central Florida Poultry Producers Marketing association. L E Kellogg of Mount Dora is president and C R Hiatt is secretary treasurer. The group aims to recruit new members in coming months.
Florence Smock, national health contest winner, will be honored at a public meeting in the Eustis municipal auditorium on January 13. County trade body, Eustis chamber of commerce, and the county home demonstration department prepare a program suited to the occasion.
N R Mehroff, poultry extension representative of the State College of Agriculture, received a desk set from the Lake County Poultry Show. He thanked organizers for their cooperation and anticipated forward strides in Lake county poultry during 1930.
Commissioner W. H. Richey had an appendicitis operation at Memorial hospital in Ocala ten days ago and is resting well with no complications. County Attorney J W Hunter to preside at the delinquent tax adjustment board meeting in Tavares in Richey’s absence.
Announcement states the first thirty days at an office near the post office in Eustice will include free eye examinations and prescription glasses made to fit. The practitioner claims sixteen years of Asheville experience and clinical methods used by oculists, serving patients within seventy-five miles.
The pastor conducts Holy Communion at 11:00 with Epworth League devotional at 6:30. Evening worship and sermon follow at 7:30. Wednesday mid week service also at 7:30. All are welcome and wished a Happy New Year by James H. Elder, pastor.
Pastor D B Spencer leads Sunday School at 10 a.m. and morning worship at 11 a.m. Communion observed January 5. Christian Endeavor at 7 p.m. January 5 on the topic Why Pray For Others led by Bennett Harvey. Midweek service at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday. Friday January 10 Ladies Aid Society at 2:30 p.m.
The Baptist Tabernacle schedules Sunday School at 9 45 a m morning service at 11 a m and an evening service at 7 30 p m Pastor D P Montgomery leads with a 6 30 p m B Y P U and a Wednesday 7 30 p m prayer meeting The public is invited to attend all services.
Sunday services at 11 a m and Sunday school at 9 45 a m. Testimonial meeting Wednesday. Corner Grove Street and Lemon Avenue in Eustis plans noted.
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