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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1931
Page
3
The Mount Dora High School bi weekly senior class edition ends after publication. The seniors express mixed emotions as they pass leadership to the juniors and invite support to keep High Points a source of school pride.
In the past week the three upper classes held spirited debates. Seniors debated interscholastic versus intramural sports with the majority favoring interscholastic play. They also debated Baumes Side of laws with the affirmative winning. A close 9 to 8 result decided the jur y system debate among four test debaters. Friday afternoon a juniors versus seniors intermural debate also ended with an affirmative win.
Monday afternoon January 5 students and teachers enjoyed a musical program by Portsmouth Nova Scotia pianist Mr Nickerson. He presented a varied program including Drink to Me Only, The Penny Concerto, Minuets by Beethoven and Paderewski, Carnival of Venice, O Sole Mio, a waltz medley, Hungarian Dance, Old Dog Tray, and Pop Goes the Weasel.
A school presented a six act marionette version of Rip Van Winkle on January 8 at 2 45 pm. Cast included Nicholas Vedder as Rip and Derrick Van Pyome as his wife with three strange little men as guests. Attendance added $8 to the Athletic Association treasury.
The junior boys opened the night but could not gain a lead as Mount Dora fell to Umatilla. The girls varsity battled the Tigers, trading baskets in a tight contest with Mount Dora trailing 33-20 at the end of the game.
The Mouynt-Doéra boys basketball team traveled to Winter Garden for a Friday evening game on January 9th.
December 20 results show Mount Dora boys and girls losing to Orlando B 14 to 7 and 19 to 19 with a late rally. Mab Ray suffered a knee injury ending her season while Jost and Brantley and Pray delivered strong play for Mount Dora. Several shots were ruled after a held ball by the referee.
Most seniors resume school after Christmas with mid term exams in sight and time spent on debates. Hope rises for several seniors to join the regular team. Jesse Dooley returns without crutches and Evelyn Crutchfield joins as reinforcement, but play plans remain unsettled due to a shortage of boys.
The report details junior class activities including postering contests won by Abby Jo Simpson and Frances Elder, top poster by Martha Wells from multiple grades, ticket sales leaders Mortimer McCown, Helen Gorman and Marjorie Loveless, and preparations for a January 29 performance. Miss Hubbell hosts a flower-making gathering for six juniors, then dinner, with a field trip ending at Park Grill after a daisies attempt.
A brief class meeting was held at 2:00 Thursday to assign parts for a pan tomine presentation during assembly. The date moved to February and practice will not begin as soon as hoped. Debates in English class last week included a debate on modern advertising with cross marks indicating the winning side.
Readable notes mention a Home Economics club plans a February 3 show at P T A with many stunts. Doodle Merry, an alumnus, visited the Latin class as students discuss prizes and potential winners from the eighth grade.
The text lists exemptions for Ma A Harding Mey and ry Simpson from a Cecelia Palmer organized tea event. Flora ay lén Gormanck will host Monday teas with the remaining participants. Attendance details indicate Saturday and Sunday gatherings at Wells night and with Virginia ie gram.
The 1930 review notes more arrests and convictions for game and fish law violations than ever before, attributed to expanded war dens and harsher enforcement, with courts and public attitudes impacting outcomes. Progress includes hatchery gains, predatory fish removal, and a Raiford game farm showing mixed results. quail and turkey scarcity persisted, deer held steady, and a Gulf Coast migratory bird refuge was approved for Wakulla, Jefferson, and Taylor counties to close before 1931 hunting season.
Florida state commerce reports nine excellent radio programs boosting the state. National airtime features Florida brand in millions of homes daily, with northern stations airing Florida topics. Know Florida Better Week and Buy at Home runs February 23 to 28 with a series of special broadcasts.
The January Motor Boating magazine outlines a nine hundred mile inland waterway cruise held last April sponsored by the Florida State Chamber of Commerce Waterways Committee. Miss Katherine Tracy L Engle of Jacksonville led the eight day trip and kept the official log. Mount Dora hosted an overnight stop as the event launched the committee's push to promote inland waterway pleasure cruising in outboard powered craft.
The State Chamber Ways and Means Committee asks for a share of the inland waterway gasoline tax for improvements. It surveys methods used by other states where inland waterways serve pleasure and commercial use.
The world's first oil well was drilled in 1859 at Titusville by Colonel Edwin L. Drake. It for years spouted about twenty barrels daily of pure paraffin base Pennsylvania grade oil, quality unmatched elsewhere in the region.
The Bank of Terra Ceia in Florida paid its fourth dividend of 10 percent recently, marking another milestone in its financial distribution to shareholders.
Creditors legatees and all persons with claims against the estate of W F Moon deceased must present claims to Judge E M Tally Lake County Florida within twelve months from January 16 1931 or they will be barred. Ada Josephine Moon Administratrix dated January 16 1931.
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