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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1928
Page
4
Local society notes describe visitors and residents in Mount Dora including Judge J W Hunter, Paul T Harber, Joe Coffey, Mrs A C Hildreth, Mrs C H Brabritt, Mrs E W Baldwin, and others. The Mount Dora Tourist Club plans programs and a card party. church missions hold a food sale. several families winter in Mount Dora plus regional business and road projects. Florida citrus statistics are cited from a federal report.
A series of free lectures and demonstrations on health and physical culture will be presented daily at 3:30 for women only from January 16 to Friday at the E L Ferran Company in Eustis. Dr Peter L Lersch, personal representative of Bernarr MacFadden, will headline the talks, with no admission charge.
The Lakeside Inn hosted a Monday afternoon bridge party with guests including Mrs. Zell Mrs. Begole Miss Simpson Mrs. Stillman and many others. New arrivals from Rockland Maine Brookline Mass Durham New Hampshire and Goshen New York were reported along with extended stays by the Clements and Mr. Alfred Clements of Wayne Pennsylvania.
A Beecher pig story is used to argue that municipal ownership of utilities costs more than private systems. The piece cites J A Van Osdel to claim Massachusetts municipally owned electric utilities cost 35 percent more to manufacture and 21 percent more to distribute than private plants. It warns that government printing and other public services avoid taxes and accountability, leading to inefficiency and hidden costs. The note ends with the St Augustine St Johns district Florida Bankers Association meeting.
A daughter named Lais Esther was born to Mr. and Mrs. McCullough, arriving Friday evening.
The Mount Dora Garden Club met at the Grand View Hotel last Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Jas H Hirsch of Winter Park Garden Club gave an interesting talk. The next meeting will be January 18 at the Grand View Hotel with Mrs W L Tilden of Orlando as a speaker. All garden enthusiasts invited.
Mr George Dwelley died suddenly at his home in Tangerine on Tuesday December 27. Born in 1839 in Pem broke Mass he was the son of Lois D and J Harvey Dwelley and is survived by two children Mrs F Waldo Dyer and Robert Dwelley of South Hanover Mass. He moved to Tangerine in 1885 to work in the orange business after early life in tack factories of Whiteman Hanover as an iron slitter. Funeral services were held at Congregational church Tangerine on Friday December 30 with Rev Fred Masch officiating. Interment followed in the family lot at Tangerine cemetery.
The article notes a first meeting of the forum as a great success, discussing religion and science. It highlights religion focusing on God and spiritual reality, while science seeks to understand the world, its laws, and how things relate. It acknowledges clashes when religious views rely on pre science notions of creation and structure.
Mrs. Nancy Schoonmaker, writer and traveler, will deliver the January 16 lecture on "Woman's Part in the New Europe." She represents the National League of Women Voters and the General Federation of Women's Clubs and has toured Norway.
A female observer travels through Sweden Denmark England France Germany Switzerland and Czechoslovakia to survey women's political activity. She gains insight into European conditions and the protocols aiding dialogue with prominent female parliament members and discusses American women's involvement in diplomacy and international obligations.
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