Birds of Mount Dora and hawk lore from a local note
The piece recalls a gray blue heron along lake shores preying on fish and a rat, plus a vivid account of a great blue heron and a pond delta scene. It contrasts red shouldered hawks and accipiters, explains their habits, and urges safer feeding practices near shrubs to protect songbirds.
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Big Blue
Eustis
Mount Dora
Overlook Drive
Dufourd
Henry Harford
Eustis Road
Florida
Stroke Play Tournament Results For MD Women's Golf Assn
December stroke play results announced by Mount Dora Women's Golf Association list winners by flight. Audrey Herbertson led First Flight with Low Gross. Una Daub topped Second Flight Low Gross. Janet Fetherlin led Third Flight. Weekly winners show Ellen Bryant, Laura Graham, and Helen Himes as top low nets. Tournament chair Louise Wilmarth and president Grace Rouse praised strong signups and upcoming Lake County and Sanford invitational events.
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Mount Dora
Janet Fetherlin
Virginia McCough
Elsa Ruwaldt
Ellen Bryant
Louise Wilmarth
Mary Mize
Laura Graham
Virginia Dalby
Helen Himes
Edith Wright
Betty Wilson
Grace Rouse
Lake County Women’s Golf Association
Silver Lake Country Club
Sanford
Mayfair Country Club
Hawk Killing Man and a Rat Catcher Tale
In a terse anecdote, Henry Harford recalls a man who shot a hawk as it rose from a chicken pen and found a rat clutched in the talons, justifying the act as bird icide. The note contrasts with broader calls to shoot dogs en masse to protect sheep.
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Butee
Henry Harford
Men's Garden Club Meeting in Mount Dora
The Mount Dora Men's Garden Club will meet Monday January 15 at 8 p.m. in the Mount Dora Community Building for its annual session. Officers for the next year will be elected, reports heard, and after installation a film "This Land is Ours" will be shown. Door prizes and refreshments follow. membership forms available.
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Men's Garden Club of
Mount Dora
University of Florida
Desert facts and tiny boat minis in a mixed up column
A collage of curiosities and natural science notes covers fashion trends for the young, Oklahoma City's size and features, miniature sailing boats in bottles, desert climate and plant adaptations, cactus facts, and a quirky coin lighting anecdote ending with a man buying a ramshackle mansion in New Castle Pennsylvania last summer.
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New Castle
Central Florida Churches Stage Chain of Missions Jan 21 22
Twelve churches across Eustis Howey Mount Dora Tavares and Umatilla join Central Lake County in the annual Chain of Missions with the theme Faith for a New Age. Sunday services on January 21 and talks by pastors at Mount Dora venues follow, with events continuing January 22 and Rotary Club address January 23.
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Central Florida
Chain of Missions
Eustis
Howey
Mount Dora
Tavares
Umatilla
Lake County
First Presbyterian of
Fred Luchs
St. Philip Lutheran
W. J. Smart
Methodist of
Parke Renshaw
Congregational
U.C.C
Elbert Gates, Jr
Howey Academy
St. Edward's Episcopal
Central Christian
Mark Richards, Jr
Presbyterian Church of
Elbert Gates
Thomas Strixrud
Congo
Mount Dora forms Retired Citizens Association new group
The Mount Dora Retired Citizens Association is organized after a Community Building meeting. Theodore Videto is elected president. officers and directors are named, with over 100 attendees. Sheldon Hill of the Orlando Senior Citizens Club urges joining the Federation and advancing senior citizen causes including federal insurance for those over 65.
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Mount Dora
Retired Citizens Association
Theodore Videto
N. Clayton Sr
Leo Dunton
Esther Niles
Tillie Irene Monk
Mabel Saunier
Ass’t
Ellen Shirey
Zens
Hill
Florida
Federation
Rose Theme For L and H Garden Club Meeting
Lakes and Hills Garden Club members and guests gather Friday January 19 at 2 p.m. in the Community Building. Mrs. Benjamin F. Ruether of Mount Dora Woman's Club will discuss History of the Rose. Mrs. Stockwell of Eustis demonstrates Roses on Canvas. Music by Mrs. Lorna Jacobs Harper with Roses in Music. Tea by Mrs. H. H. Killinger.
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Lakes and Hills Garden Club
Benjamin F. Ruether
Mount Dora
H. H. Killinger
Mount Dora Club Rates Senior Exemption and Senior Membership
The Mount Dora Club highlights a $10,000 homestead exemption for people 65 and older and invites those 55 and up to join. It sets the first Friday each month for meetings starting with a 12 noon covered dish luncheon, then a business meeting and entertainment. Officers will set dues and establish policy for the club.
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Mount Dora Club
Haunted House Hoax Exposed In 19th Century Enigma
A dubious display spent ten thousand dollars to stage cobwebs dummies coffins and squeaky stairs drawing about 152000 visitors paying 1.50 for a tour since July. The tale of the first American bathtub by H C Menchen circulated as fact and even a major encyclopedia once repeated the hoax, showing how even reference works can err.
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H. C. Menchen
America
Lou Heaton
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