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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1935
Page
5
The American Legion Auxiliary gathered at Mrs. George Dahlin's home on Sanford Road with the president and first vice president absent. Second vice president Mrs. Maurice Turner presided while a committee of Mrs. Dahlin, Mrs. Harold Overhiser and Mrs. Sol Spilky prepared resolutions on the death of charter member Mrs. Elsie Altizer and plans were completed for a George...
The event titled Washington party for their wives occurs February 22 at 8 p m in the Community Building. The gathering lasts briefly and closes with cookies and hot chocolate served to attendees.
The Home Demonstration Club will meet Wednesday January 23 at the Community Building with a covered dish supper followed by the evening business meeting.
The Mount Dora Yacht Club will hold its monthly business meeting on Thursday night January 17, paired with a social get together and smoker. Refreshments will be served and all members are urged to attend.
Laws list officers President Mrs W A Vincent vice president Lt Wm Pearce secretary Mrs D F Crane treasurer Mr Cliff White chairman social committee Miss Barbara Hopcriff. Meetings and practice are held each Thursday with business and social gatherings on the third Thursday monthly. This month the pot luck supper is on the 17th at director Mrs Florence G Hanscom's home.
Mount Dora Temple No 12 held a public installation on Monday January 1 at 8 Celek Fraternal Hall. Mrs Edna Simpson received a gift from the officers club as she ended her term. Installing officers included Caroline M Henry Ruby Haygood Adah Williamson and Edna Simpson served as Past Chief with Erma Hethcox as Most Excellent Chief. A reception followed with brick ice cream and cake.
The Current Events class led by Mrs. O. W. Sadler will not meet this Friday at the Yacht Club due to her sprained ankle sustained Tuesday in Orindo.
Winter Park tenor Mr Robert Currie will entertain the Woman's Club at its meeting on Tuesday January 22 at 3 p m. All music lovers are invited. Those who heard him sing last year need no second invitation.
The Friendly Club met at the Community Building on Monday afternoon for a pleasant gathering with refreshments. The next meeting is set for January 21 at 11th and Clayton, hosted by Mrs. E. E. Gorham and Mrs. William Simmons.
Local note lists visitors and seasonal residents in Mount Dora and nearby areas. Names include Miss Morgan, Miss Mary Daniels, Mrs. Oliver J. Bushnell, Mr. Reed, Mr. Purdy, Mrs. Ralph Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Watson, and many others from Indiana, Florida, New York, Connecticut, and Ontario, visiting relatives, staying at the Harrold House, McGee apartments, or renting cottages for the winter. A few plan motor trips to St Petersburg and along the Florida keys.
Members are invited to a card party at the Yacht Club on the evening of January 23 at 8 o clock. Supper for members and families will precede the event. Entertainment committee asks members to confirm attendance and number of accompanying family members.
The M. E. Church will host an anniversary reception in church parlors on Sunday January 20 from 4 00 to 5 30 p m as part of the semi centennial program. Tourist members and friends are invited. The committee includes Mrs R C Conklin Mrs Tracy Kramer Mrs James Simpson Mrs Lee French and Mrs Estella Clark.
The Lambert Circle of the Baptist Women's Missionary Society was entertained Monday night at Mrs. C. E. Brock's home with ten present. The circle, composed of young matrons, extends a cordial welcome. Next meeting is February 12 at Mrs. George Groome's Highland Court. The other three circles met in the afternoon.
The Congregational church choir elected officers at a meeting held last week. The result lists the newly chosen leader and office holders for the choir's upcoming season.
Rev G T Hinton and Rev and Mrs Smith with Mr and Mrs Dudley and a friend from St. Petersburg passed Mount Dora en route to DeLand on Monday and shared a meal at the Harrold House. Rev Hinton served as the Seabee of the First Baptist.
Mr and Mrs B J Wilkinson motor to Fort Meade for a visit with Mrs Wilkinson s mother. Ada Rider Florence Woolridge Ada Schurlein Pearl Gray from Berea Ohio call on Irving M Short family. Several guests arrive from Cleveland Fond du Lac Bridgeport and Connecticut while highway fog slows travel.
Mr and Mrs Ray Ray of Water Valley Mississippi announce the birth of a daughter on December 31 weighing 7 pounds 8 ounces Edwina Dale. Both mother and child are doing well Mrs Ray previously Miss Jewell Boydston is remembered.
Mr and Mrs Earl Pratt of Winter Garden announce the birth of a daughter at Florida Sanitarium Orlando on January 14. The infant weighs 6 pounds 11 ounces and is named Nanette.
The article lists honor roll students by grade and percent of class with names including Nancy Cory Henry Hays Josephine Lanier Dwight Mosteller and others. It also offers practical tips for washing lettuce, preventing a cereal crust, and refreshing frosting on cakes.
At the meeting Burkart presided as Scout leaders presented Saree Barr of Orlando as director and Joyce Thompson after a Tenderfoot pin. The group awarded diaries to Tenderfoot passers, hiked at Lake Franklin, and shared stories from Barr’s scouting history. Celve ravi... (text truncated)
A Hoosier narrator recalls fleeing harsh Indiana winter eleven years ago to sunny Florida. He describes the arduous trip, cold shelter, and a depot joke, then expresses wonder at Mount Dora’s oranges, singing mockingbirds, and moonlit lakes. He vows not to return despite Rochester-like snow memories.
Weekly tips cover substitutions for baking without milk or eggs using apple sauce and baking soda, a method to soften butter with a hot knife, dry mixing of sugar and flour to avoid lumps, and storing cheese in vinegar-wrung cloth in a jar with a loose cover.
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