Sorrento Social Notes Highlight Winter Visitors
Sorrento residents host returning winter guests and visiting friends from Mount Dora Orlando and Chicago. The Florida players perform in Eustis and a golf tourney in Mt Plymouth draws notable participants. Local clubs and families attend teas dinners and D A R meetings as residents report health and travel updates.
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Sorrento
Mt Plymouth
Alex Stupple
Tom Carne Pros
Chicago
U. S. Battle
Mr. Carney
Hal Myers
Orlando
Stupple
Stewart Edwards
Apopka
Bob Stupple
George Malone
Mount Dora
Fine Entertainers to Play at Tangerine Hall Benefit
A Friday January 23 program at Tangerine Town Hall features Pierce Entertainers, Harry Raymond Pierce and Marguerite Poetzinger. Pierce performs impersonations from real life. Poetzinger plays cello and piano, supporting sketches. Proceeds fund village improvements. tickets 75 cents.
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Tangerine
Pierce
Mount Dora
Harry Raymond Pierce
Marguerite Poetzinger
Poetzinger
Lake County Farmer Wins Top Honors in Florida Egg Contest
The Yale View Poultry Farm of Grand Island owned by Mrs E T Handy led the Florida National Egg-Laying Contest at Chipley with 228 eggs and 237.55 points for December. Three S C Reds from Yale View placed among the top ten in the country as the fifth annual contest runs Oct 1 1930 to Sep 23 1981 under University of Florida extension service supervision.
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Lake County
Yale View Poultry Farm
Florida
Extension Service
College of Agriculture of the
University of Florida
Lake County to broadcast again on January 26
Lake county's next monthly radio program from WRUF Gainesville will air Monday January 26 from 5 to 6 p m EST. Secretary Paul T Harber will mail over 250 outreach cards to people outside Florida and 400 cards to local clubs for mailing to northern residents. Letters on prior programs came from 23 states and Quebec Canada. The effort aims to recruit winter visitors and residents to listen and invite others in northern states.
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Lake County
WRUF
Gainesville
County Chamber of Commerce
Tavares
Paul T. Harber
Florida
Chambers of Commerce
Rotary and
Kiwanis Clubs
Maine
Kansas
Quebec
Canada
Harker
Dickson Ives Fashion Revue Planned for January 23
An Orlando Dickson Ives store hosts a spring opening with an evening open house and fashion revue on Friday January 23. Doors open 7 30 and the show starts at 8 on the second floor. More than a dozen models will showcase spring fashions for juniors women and matrons plus children’s apparel. Music will be provided by Royvos Scots.
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Dickson-Ives
Orlando
Royvos Scots
Mount Plymouth Club Opens Season With Dinner Dance
The Mount Plymouth Country Club Hotel starts its season with a formal opening dinner dance on Saturday January 17. An eight course dinner by Chef M. Pelosi will be served 7:30 to 9:00 pm, followed by dancing to an eight piece orchestra until 12:00 am. Reservations are encouraged as limited seating is available. Prominent guests include Connie Mack and Tom Shibe along with attendees from Mount Dora and other Central Florida cities.
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Mount Plymouth Country Club
M. Pelosi
Mount Plymouth
Connie Mack
Tom Shibe
Florida
United States
Mount Dora
Eustis
Leesburg
Sanford
Orlando
DeLand
Central Florida
Citrus development expansion eyed in Mount Dora region
The plan aims at citrus and grape growth across Howey-in-the-Hills to Clermont and Lake Apopka, highlighting high ground, warm climate, and protection from cold. Despite low citrus prices, market prospects improve with a rising grapefruit canning volume, orange juice industry growth, and broader demand.
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Mount Dora
Montverde
Howey-in the-Hills
Clermont
Killarney
Lake Apopka
Florida
Neville
California
Truskett
Central Florida Fruit Farms, Inc
Activitie
Zellwood Notes Include Cleanup At Methodist Church
Zellwood reports a general clean up around the Methodist church with grass cutting and a celebratory fire. Mr and Mrs Anderson of Marquette Michigan arrive to spend the season with their daughter Mrs Vincent and granddaughter Naomi Vincent.
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Richard Weinmann
Judson’s
Patterson
New Jersey
Wendel Perry
Virginia Lee
Mrs. Graves Whitmire
Chicago
Mt Plymouth
Nch
Charles H. Anderson
Marquette
Mich
Will
Zellwood
George Vincent
Naomi Vincent
Central Florida Council Elects New Officers At Orlando Meeting
The ninth annual Central Florida Council Boy Scouts of America meeting in Orlando on January 5 elected Major Charles A. Browne as President with vice presidents serving Brevard Lake Orange Osceola Seminole and Volusia counties. A. P. Michaels was named Treasurer and G. M. Wakelin was re elected Executive.
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Central Florida Council
Boy Scouts of America
Orlando
Charles A. Browne
Russell A. Field
Brevard County
C. B. Treadway
Lake County
J. M. McCormick
Orange County
Sam Lupier
Osceola County
M. M. Stewart
Seminole County
W. W. Gould
Volusia County
A. P
E. M. Savage
W. W. Gillespie
J. M. Polatty
W. J. Horan
H. A. Zurn
F. S. Ballentine
O. R. Davis
A. M. Meyer
W. G. Rose
J. R. Gunn
J. E. Diefendorf
V. H. Irving Louttit
C. G. Bousfield
Voluia
G. M. W.kelin
DeLand
Leesburg
Melbourne
Central Florida
Tavares
Camp Wewa
G. M. Wakelin
County Bureau At Orange Festival
Lake county will have an information bureau at the Florida Orange Festival in Winter Haven from January 20 31 where literature describing the county will be distributed along with advertising material from the county towns. Visitors will receive information on recreational facilities hotels and living accommodations agricultural resources and general opportunities for tourists and home seekers. An invitation will be extended to visitors from other parts of the state to visit Lake county before leaving Florida at season end.
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Lake County
Winter Haven
Florida
Public School Honor Roll Names by Grade
The notice lists students earning honor roll for each grade. First grade includes Max ine Cleary and nine other names, second grade highlights Betty Blanchard and nine more, third grade names Pomona Davidson and six others, fourth grade Lillie Mae Beasley and five peers, fifth grade Hazel Edwards and eight others, sixth grade Emily Battle and eight peers.
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Maxine Cleary
T. J. Collins
Bessie Davis
June Fenn
Winnifred Harding
Marion McNair
Jean Shipes
Sheila Spilky
Robert Swartz
Helen Wells
Betty Blanchard
Loreen Cronwall
Joann French
Herbert Haines
Iris Moon
Pomona Davidson
Frances Davis
Almeda Dooley
Marian Edwards
Billy Lawrence
Frankie Lou Morris
James Patrick
DeVault Roseborough
Lillie Mae Beasley
Zera Dean
Elizabeth Drake
Othel Grantham
Billy McCown
W. T. Treadwell
Hazel Edwards
Theo Green
Lois Jerne
Nona Mortensen
Alton McNair
Curtis Minkley
Jane Sharp
Natalie Spilky
Oscar Stephens, Jr
William Turrentine
Dorothy White
Emily Battle
L. C. Green
David Crandall
Willie Kate
Grantham
Dorothy Loveless
Nina McCurley
Mary Louise Rehbaum
Howard Rutherford
Bud Wingler
Inverness Bank Officials Cleared by Not Guilty Verdict
A verdict of not guilty is returned against Inverness bank officials, clearing them of all charges and ending the case.
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Inverness
NO MORE RATS or mice with RAT SNAP ad
An advertisement promoting RAT SNAP as a guaranteed rodent killer. It claims no smell after use and that cats will not touch it. Offers size-1 to size-5 cakes for kitchens, cellars, coops, outbuildings, storage, and factories. Sold by Mount Dora Pharmacy.
Clearwater Rolls 40 Percent Tax Valuation Cut
City commissioners ordered a 40 percent cut in tax valuations while signaling a millage increase to maintain revenue. The plan aims to balance reduced assessed values with higher local tax rates to avoid shortfalls.
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City of
Clearwater
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