Sorrento Winter Visitors and Local Family Gatherings
Sorrento residents host relatives from New Jersey and Florida during winter, with multiple families visiting or staying in local cottages and bungalows. Guests include Walter and Mrs Weinmann, Mrs Battle, and others from Jacksonville Daytona Beach and Gainesville, sharing Christmas meals and holiday gatherings at farms, cottages, and homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Osterling
New Jersey
Dufour
Osterling
Weinmann
Walter Weinmann
Walter Buxton
Ida Battle
Miami
Sorrento
Hate Mee Worthe Green
Gainesville
John Ferr
Edwin Battle
Jessie Battle
Port Orange
Percy Register
Jacksonville
M. F. Cowart
Tom Cowart
C.ph
U.S.N
Atlantic
Long Island Sound
Key West
Edward Weinmann
Richard
Bert Pim
Sutherland
DeLand and Sorrento
Ellen Adams
Steenberg
Oscar Tolbert
Chas. Davey
Mary Battle
Ralph Battle
Rabin Battle
Bettie Lou
Daytona Beach
Wae
G. C. Battle
Leesburg
Lester
Iris Battle Martin
Ford
Army reenlistment perks under 1945 act promised today
Men may reenlist in their present grade if done within 20 days after discharge and before February 1 1946. The new Armed Forces Voluntary Recruitment Act of 1945 offers extensive benefits including longer enlistment periods, GI Bill rights, increased bonuses, furlough options, retirement paths, family allowances, and skill training across branches and theaters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Armed Forces
Pay Increases for Enlisted Men in Service Over Seas
Pay per month for enlisted men rises with allowances for food lodging clothing and medical care plus 20 percent. Overseas service adds 50 percent. Flying crew members parachutists receive 5 percent per three years of service.
Local Daughters of the American Revolution observe Christmas events
Members hosted by Mrs. Porter Mrs. Hunter spoke on the 23rd Psalm and the Message to the Shepherds each guest exchanged gifts for an unknown guest. The next meeting is set for January 10 at Miss Hattie Allen’s home with Mrs. Cowart assisting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattie Allen
Judge Koonce
Eustis
Florida
Major Dade
Personal notes of a southern motor trip and family visits
The piece follows a couple on a motor trip through the southeast with stops in Central and South Florida, New Orleans, and Texas before a spring return. They reside in J W Daniels unfinished home at Baker and Tenth due to scarce living quarters. Mrs George Coffin and daughter Emily came from Miami for Christmas. John Coffin, a Carnegie Tech student, is hospitalized in Pittsburgh with mastoid trouble after an operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
New Orleans
Texas
J. W. Daniels
Baker and
Tenth
George Coffin
Emily
Miami
Pittsburgh
John
Carnegie Tech
Leach Farmbirth of Charles Howard junior in New York
Mr and Mrs Charles Howard Leach of Jackson Heights Flushing N Y announce the birth of a 7 pound 2 ounce son Charles Howard junior born December 19 1945 Mrs Leach prior Miss Jean Smith Mount Dora. Mount Dora hosts Ocoee tomorrow at 7 30 pm Eustis plays Tuesday night both games expected to be good fans urged to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles. Howard Leach
Jackson Heights
Flushing, N. Y
Charles Howard Junior
Leach
Jean Smith
Mount Dora
Ocoee
Eustis
East Town Community News and Local Notices
East Town residents report on community work by The Helping Hand and Better Building Citizenship Club. A Monday chicken dinner is planned with a uniformed men’s reception for women. Several locals deal with illness and discharge from service as others visit Quincy and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guana Ee
M. L. Gilbert
Citizenship Club
En Agagn
Mount Dora
Jennie Foster
Jersey City
Oliver Williams
Joe Humphrey
Lovett
T. Thomas
Quincy
Ephriam Peterson
Julia Thomas
Viola Vick
Eustis Hospital
Mattie Gamble
T. M. Thomas
Cork Oak Seedlings Available for Planting in Florida
Cork oak seedlings, about 7 500 in number, are available free from the Florida Forest Service. Applications should be sent to the State Forest Service in Tallahassee and seedlings will be shipped from the Olustee nursery for those who apply. The effort follows three years of interest in cork oak planting in the state and notes its evergreen form and holly like leaves as a beautification tree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. A. Titus
Florida Forest Service
Titus
Olustee
Florida
Holland
Capitol
Notice to Creditors and Divorce Orders in Lake County
Estate of Thomas J. Storer. Creditors warned to file claims within eight months with Lake County Judge in Tavares. Also multiple divorce orders in Mount Dora and Lake County requiring defendants Mattie M. Wright Therman Jackson Dorothy Reed y and others to appear or respond by dates in 1946 with publication notices in Mount Dora Topic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estes
Hamas J. Storer
Lake County
Florida
Herlong, Jr
Tavares
R. G. Shipe
Thomas J. Storer
Thomas H. Cooley
Mattie M. Wright
James F. Wright
Circuit Court of
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Mount Dora
Geo
J. Dykes
Grace H. Cox
D. C
Dorothy B. Reedy
Ars
A. D
Geo. J. Dykes
Circuit
D. C. Thomas
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Highland Ave
Burton’s Garage N.A.P.A
Electric
Acetylene
D. Clare
Mount Dora, Florida
U.S
Guardian OF Viciok
U.S. Army Recruiting
Orlando
Zenith
Zenith Radio Corporation
Fox
American Medical Association
Council On Physical Therapy
Taylor’s Rexall Store
East Town
W. M. Kennedy
Spencer
Auto Parts Co
Therman Jackson
State OF
Yeat Cox
Dora
Fla
State OF Florida
John W. Reedy
Homer Morris
Texaco Gas and Oil
U. S. Highway
Jimmie’s
Eustis Road
Paswner
Riley’s Park Trailer Park & Miniature Homes
No. 2
U. S. 441
Sylvan Shores
Ee Itm Fa Agin
Pathfinder
Silver Screen
Poultry Tribune Farm Journal & Farmer’s Wife
Thern
Etude Music Magazine
Farm Jrm. & Farmer's Flower Grower
Liberty
Digest
Nat'l Livestock Producer
Nature
Parents’ Magazine
Popular Mechanics
Popular Science Moi
Reader's Digest
Redbook
Scientific Detective Sports
Southern Agricultural
True Story
U. S
National Digest Monthly
Photoplay
Poultry Tribune
Progressive Farmer Screenland
Silver” Screen
the Homemaker
the Woman
Walt Disney’s
Comic Your Life
Christian Herald Movie Show
Outdoo Screenland
Child Life
Poultry Tribune Ee Fruit Rmn
National Livestock Producer
Progressive Farmer Pathfinder
R.F.D
Post Office
Lake County Chamber OF Commerce
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