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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1934
Page
6
Speakers urged Florida pride and revival after the boom, touting sales tax as salvation, the role of chambers in drawing people, and the state’s climate, roads, and health advantages. They urged support for community efforts and thanked volunteers and hosts.
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce reports 1933 activity under President George J. White with directors including Alfred Rehbaum and Charles Edgerton. It details membership drives, publishing Mount Dora Topics, 10,000 booklets, road signs, and sports sponsorships. The organization cooperates with the National Chamber, hosts gatherings, and formed the Central Florida Waterways Association in July while attracting large meeting attendances.
Mount Dora defeated Florida Public Service 33 30 as J F Brantley led scorers with 12 points and Hale added 10. The tight tilt featured back and forth scoring with Mount Dora holding the edge through three quarters. The Mount Dora girls also beat Eustis 22 19 while the boys fell to Eustis in a low scoring street.
Mount Dora High School prepares for a home clash with Clermont High School at Clermont. With the team averaging 25 percent on 10 fouls in 40 attempts, coaches hope to tighten defense and capitalize on offense in a potential easy win for Mount Dora.
The Tourist Club, tied with Southern College groups, offers a season of music, acting, and comedy. Five programs are free while six require 25 cent charges for non members, urging joining for $1 to attend all events. The club aims to attract tourists and benefit the town with two picnics and December 29 social event. Membership exceeds 300.
Kiwanis club holds a music program arranged by H. J. Wise Charles Nichols and Mrs Paul Ault. All members urged to attend for enjoyable performances and to sustain the club's strong attendance record at the start of the year.
Harold Coleman, owner of Coleman's Bakery, reported his new Pontiac sedan stolen from a street in Eustis Saturday night around 9 30. He searched all night and learned Sunday morning the car had been wrecked on the road between Eustis and beyond.
A C L officials W M Wharton of Jacksonville and L P Green of Orlando stopped in Mount Dora this week on their statewide tour. Wharton noted Florida rail traffic boosts and a record tourist season, praising Mount Dora's beauty and the flame vine that blankets the town, earning it the nickname Flame Vine City.
The Ladies Aid Society of the First Methodist Episcopal Church will hold a sale of food candy and miscellaneous articles in the social room of the Community Building on Friday January 19 from 1 30 to 6 00 p m They will also serve sandwiches tea salads and homemade ice cream and cake to all who wish.
The Mount Dora Home Demonstration Club will meet Wednesday January 24 at 3 p.m. in the Community Building social rooms. The program covers making and remodeling hats.
E J Meinhardi of Chicago offers private demonstrations of the Meinhardi Rupture Shield at the Angellbilt Hotel in Orlando Florida on Sunday January 21 from 1 to 7 PM. Only men admitted. He claims the device opens in 10 days on a typical case regardless of size or location and requires no straps or cumbersome setup.
A jumble ad markets living room suites, chairs, stoves, and more at bargain prices. The piece blends humorous asides about delays, a departing baby carriage, and a satirical toast to future leaders, ending with tongue in cheek pathos.
The index of volume of exports of forty four principal U S farm products in November was the smallest in seventeen years. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics reports the index at 111 for November, vs 120 for October and 120 for November last year, with 1909 14 as 100.
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