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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1929
Page
8
The French newspaper L Ami du Peuple allocates one million francs to support the Boy Scout Movement in France. The gift is part of a postwar reconciliation drive to unite all classes through mutual aid and brotherhood among the nation s youth.
The article shows Otis H. Chidester, at 25, editor and publisher of Windsor Standard and Harpersville Ninevah Standard, as an example of vocational guidance through merit badges. Joining the Lone Scout Division in 1915, he earned the Journalism merit badge and pursued journalism as his life work, becoming a newspaper correspondent and later managing editor, while serving as Scoutmaster of a Windsor troop.
Executive Committee bulletin lauds the Boy Scouts of Honolulu Hawaii for efficiency during the U S Fleet visit. It highlights Mother's Day Capitol grounds turnout of 80 000, Memorial Day crowd, and Lantern Parade Night with 50 000 citizens plus the Japanese community.
Trask, Scout Executive Pasadena, reports Anniversary Week talk on Scouting aired on a powerful Pasadena radio station. The program inspired Herschel Satterfield to rise in radio leadership, and Laurie’s boyhood talk led to charitable support for an orphan’s home.
Olympia Washington fourteen year old Robert Holton rode his bicycle into a car and was severely injured. Two Scouts from Troop No. 30 named Jack Reid and Robert Buehrer used a tourniquet on a severed artery to prevent serious consequences.
February issue marks eighteen years of Scouting in America with Sir Robert Baden-Powell’s article How the Acorn Became the Oak Tree about the first Boy Scout Camp in England.
The Bridle Path Association of California in Los Angeles launches mounted troop instruction for Boy Scouts aiming to compete in the Olympic Games against global equestrian groups. Led by F. E. Brown Jr. merit badge counselor, training will be by internationally reputed experts including Colonel S. C. Loring. Urban Military Academy offers a study hall, city riding academies provide instruction, and horses are donated by local academies to broaden access.
At the San Antonio American Legion Convention 285 Boy Scouts from 172 patrols provided all ushering and police support for four days, totaling 1 698 hours under the Police Department. They were commended by Legion officers for their service.
In Lake County Florida the Ridge Realty com pany sues Frank E Faulkner and Hannah Faulkner to foreclose a mortgage on Lot 18 Block 23 Sylvan Shores, with an order for constructive service by publication in Mount Dora Topic. The 1929 notice requires appearance by February 4 before the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Court in Chancery.
Real estate filing named Florida Realty Co. as plaintiff in Lake The Ridge court seeking action on property matters. Court records indicate standard urban property dispute procedures and a scheduled hearing date to be set by the clerk.
A mass meeting at 8 o clock tonight in the city auditorium Eustis features Walter Rose Orlando businessman and former state realty board president. Rose has traveled the north six months gathering facts and will urge Lake County merchants to improve local conditions in the coming months.
The first shipment of commercially grown Pinellas County strawberries moved to northern markets last Saturday with high price expectations. It consisted of three pony refrigerators, each carrying 80 quarts, produced by members of the Pinellas County Berry Growers Association through cooperative effort.
A 44 page color soil map booklet outlines Lake County climate, area, topography, and soils. Financed by the county under the Bureau of Soils, U S Department of Agriculture supervision. Postpaid for $1.00 to any address via Lake County Chamber of Commerce Ta vares Florida.
William H. Maynard must appear February 4, 1929, before the Circuit Court of the Sixteenth Florida in Chancery to answer a bill of complaint seeking foreclosure of a mortgage on Lot 22, Block 23, Sylvan in Lake County Florida.
Court records from Lake County Florida show a decree pro confesso entered against Mount Dora in a Lake County Circuit Court proceeding. The order, filed in Tavares, is dated January 3 1929 with W M Simpson as Clerk and Grace Hawthorne as deputy, Kennedy as solicitor for the complainant.
The Ridge Realty Co in Chancery files a bill of complaint to foreclose a mortgage on Lot 8, Block 22, Sylvan Shores in Lake County Florida. The Mount Dora Topic is designated as the official newspaper and notices must appear four weeks before February 4, 1929. Clerk Grace Hawthorne signs the notice.
Grapes at Montverde have consistently yielded profits since commercial vineyards reached full bearing. The crop is protected from frost, unlike truck crops and citrus, since grapevines lie dormant during Florida’s cold months and begin growth after frost danger passes.
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