Bowling Club Toasts 1955 Loyalty and Local Wins
The Lawn Bowling Club thanks the Topic for cooperation in 1955 and looks to a cooperative year. Members attended the Jan 10 dedication with gifts from Abram Hatfield and others. Mayor-elect Walter D. Patton attended, and plans include improved lighting, parking lines, and guest book entries. A Peabody Daytona Mount Dora match yielded five losses. Orlando won 80 to 57.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abram Hatfield
Ted al Fisk
George Washington
Ann
Ed Blackburne
Bill Car
Arthur Nelson
Bess
Walter D. Patton
Donnelly St
Cer
Peabody Club
Daytona
Mount Dora
Cameron
Heaton
Ryan
Morrey
Marsh
Thomas
Kellogg
Johnson
Rogers
Spencer
Orlandora
Orlando
Bennett
Mount Dora Golf Club sees wide action from seniors to women
Frank Stebbins posts 37 38 75 to eliminate Adrian Ellsman while Charlie Bowman shoots 34 36 70 for best golf in seven years. Women’s group low round 85 by C B Backus. Harold Overhiser defeats Pat Egan 80 to 82 in Sanford. Senior matchups include Trask Ewing and Groves Kenneally with Stebbins Ashbaugh. Next events feature Kuwaba Open and Blind Bogey winners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Stebbins
Charlie Bow- Stebbins
Adrian Ellsman
Charlie Bowman
Arnold Haynes
Webb Loy
Harold Overhiser
Pat Egan
Egan
Sanford
Carl Graves
Women’s Golf Association
Howey
Silver Lake
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Golf Club
Austin Trask
Clare Brigham
Harry Ewing
Bob Seefeld
Jack Groves
Herb Trenham
Kenneally
Frank Petura
Ned Fuller
Lloyd Dean
Commander Adams
Paul Ashbaugh
Ernie Butler
Ashbaugh
Trask
Ewing
Groves
Overhiser
Dean
Stebbins
Fuller
Loeber
Moore
Featherlin
Stetson Hi Hatters Meet Tampa Spartans In Featured Game
Pictured starters for Stetson Hi Hatters include Guard Dicky Layer from LaGrange Ky Forward Mac Stones from Daytona Beach and Forward Bill Oids of Miami. Stetson, ranked sixth among small colleges, aims for the win as they face the University of Tampa Spartans in a 8 p.m. Monday night game coached by Dick Morland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stetson Hi-Hatters
University of Tampa Spartans
Dicky Layer
LaGrange
Mac Stones
Daytona Beach
Bill Oids
Miami
Hi-Hatters
Dick Morland
Stetson
Night of Welcome highlights lawn bowling fellowship
The Lawn Bowling club board of governors hosted a Night of Welcome praising the institution. Gifts were presented to the club by donors including Abram Hatfield and A A Fisk while officers and members such as William Carthew and Mrs A K Bennett participated. The top photo shows donors with gifts and officers, and the center features members chatting over coffee about activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Morgan
Arthur Nelson
A. A. Fisk
Bayard Webb
Arthur Pratt
Webb
George Davis
Davis
A. K. Bennett
Lewis Dixon
Mr. Davis
Arthur Jewell
George Stocker
Jesse Smith
Bennett
Kearsley
Grace Traeger
Humor from the Typist Section Geiger Counters Jest
A supervisor jokes about uranium and a battery as he walks through the typist section. The other worker asks for clarification and the quip ends with the idea that the closer he gets, the faster the counters click.
Florida Youth Attend Church Parley Here
Young people from Miami to Jacksonville gathered in Mount Dora for the first Florida Youth Retreat of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Arthur Henson led the event with Apostle D. T. Williams delivering the main address. The campfire session opened Friday at the Girl Scout House, with sessions Saturday and a banquet at the Community building that evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Jacksonville
Mount Dora
Florida
Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Arthur Henson
Orlando
Apostle D. T. Williams
Girl Scout House
Apostle Williams
P E O Chapter B B Meeting Founders Day Trip
A meeting of Chapter B B P E O will convene at 1 30 p m on Wednesday January 25 at Mrs George G Amory home 1035 Southland Rd Sylvan Shores. Afterward members travel to Eustis to join other area chapters at the Woman's Club for Founders Day with Chapter C of Eustis leading the program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P.E.O
George G. Amory
Southland Rd
Sylvan Shores
Eustis
Woman’s Club
Shuffleboard tournament and club antics at Lake County event
The article details a shuffleboard contest starting with 48 entrants at 9 30 am Thursday, progressing to finals by 6 pm, with Lyle Wood winning first prize and trophies amounting to 4 dollars, Lee Kinsman second, Charley Doust third, and Tom Hunter fourth. It also notes Verna Legat adding a Lake County singles title to her honors and describes community tensions with humorous, rambling local anecdotes about the Close brothers and city politics, ending with Red and Black contest results and high scores by Bessie Phillips, Earl Dodd, Jean Herbsen, and Mr Soldan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toe
Lyle Wood
Lee Kinsman
Charley Doust
Tom Hunter
Verna Legat
Vern
Lake County
Umatilla
Tom
Holly
Ohio Way
Ringling Brothers Circus
Bessie Phillips
Earl Dodd
Jean Herbsen
Mr. Soldan
Bessie
Earl
Herblen
Soldan
Unitarian Minister To Speak Tuesday in Mount Dora
Rev. Carl Storm of the First Unitarian Church of Minneapolis will speak Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. in the lodge room of the Donnelly building Mount Dora on the topic Are You a Unitarian Without Knowing It A discussion will follow the talk on establishing a permanent Unitarian fellowship in Mount Dora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Storm
First Unitarian Church of
Minneapolis
Spack
Mount Dora
Donnelly Building
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