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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1946
Page
5
The article notes a Thursday social at 8 p.m. with visiting stars invited to attend. A Monday afternoon card party reports ten tables and seven of the hundred. Next Monday Edith Taylor hosts the bridge players and Mrs Fielding hosts the five hundred games.
Mrs J and Mrs Slone announce the approaching marriage of their daughter Jessie Dallas Slone to Perley George Stafford. The ceremony will be held Saturday at four o clock in the First Baptist Church Mount Dora. Friends are invited to attend.
EUDELL SUTLEY, a Stetson University mare, was praised at a birthday dinner in the Commons on Thursday January 17. Sutley is the daughter of Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Sutley of Mount Dora. Ruth DeMott wed Joe Wiley Teasley in a January 12 ceremony officiated by Rev. George Gibson. The couple, with DeMott and Teasley families listed, plan to live in Charleston while Teasley serves in the Navy after two overseas years.
Mrs. Ann Moorhead announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter Mary Joyce to George Allen Vincent, son of Beasley W. Vincent Sr. of Zellwood. The bride elect is the daughter of Mrs. Moorhead and the late Charles Clifton Moorhead. A Mount Dora graduate, she has been a Mountaine High School teacher for five years and recently returned from service in the Pacific with the Air Force. The wedding is planned for February at the bride's mother home in Mount Dora.
Mrs R N White Sr of 825 Baker Street hosted a tea on Monday January 14 to honor Mrs Charles Bartlett former Miss Virginia Bardeen whose marriage occurred New Year’s Day. The group included Mount Dora Public School teachers who gave her gifts and enjoyed Russian tea and light buffet items.
On January 18 1946 at 3 00 pm the Mount Dora High School home economics class served tea to faculty and staff. Mrs Virginia Bartlett was presented a large box of dinner dishes by Prof D D Roseborough amid group felicitations. Attendees included Mrs Mary H White Mrs Frances Nichols and others.
Miss Rita Virginia Daniels became the bride of George C. Greigsman of Eustis in a candle light ceremony Monday evening January 21 at St. Mary of the Lakes Catholic church Eustis. Father McKeon officiated at the double ring service. The bride was given in marriage.
Mrs Daniels wore a tan and blue jersey dress with a white background design and carried a bouquet. The ceremony included a dinner and cake centerpiece for immediate families. The couple plan a short wedding trip and will reside at 905 Grove Street, Eustis after returning.
Personal news items list travel and health updates for residents and relatives across Monroe, Auburn, Miami, Alameda, Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Tallahassee. It notes visits, hospital recoveries, influenza confinement, major surgery recovery, and family travel affecting residents and their kin.
Mrs Elizabeth C Seem died at home after several weeks illness. A Mount Dora resident for about 25 years she came from New Jersey with husband and cousin Carr ie Lord of Orange N J. Funeral held at Rehbaum Funeral Parlor Wednesday at 3 with Rev George Gibson officiating.
Mrs Ninette Odell 87 of Cleveland Ohio and Mount Dora died at her home after a long illness. She was widow of A R Odell active in Eastern Star Woman's Club and Reading of the Tea Ohio. Funeral services were held at Rehbaum Funeral Parlors with Dr James A Richards officiating and the body sent to Cleveland for burial in the family lot.
Dr. J J Holes 73 died at Waterman Memorial Hospital Eustis after a Mount Dora residence. He practiced medicine 40 years in Battle Creek Michigan and served in Spanish American War and World War I as an army surgeon. He was a major in the medical officers reserve corps a Mason Shriner Elk and survived by wife Dorothy M Hales and mother Alice Nichols. Masonic services were held at Rehbaum Funeral Home. Also reported is the death of A G Reid in Cincinnati Ohio born in Ireland 83 a former American Shipbuilding Co executive and Western Reserve Woolen Co vice president.
Longtime resident with frequent visits to Cleveland is mourned. He was a Mason from O. N. Steele Lodge in Cleveland and married to the late Mrs Sophie Reid noted for Eastern Star work. Survived by daughter Mrs Husmann and granddaughter Jane Husmann Franklin. burial in West Park Cemetery, Cleveland.
Elmer Sherburne a Spanish American War veteran aged 70 died January 20 at Bay Pines Veterans Hospital. Services are set for 10 AM Thursday at St Mary of the Lakes in Eustis with burial in Forest Cemetery Mount Dora. A native of Connecticut he had lived in the area about twenty years and was survived by his wife who died earlier. He belonged to the Veterans of the Spanish War and was a former commander of Albert W Gilchrist Camp No 21 in Eustis.
Mr. Oswald Wlach died January 15 in Panama City at his daughter Isolde E. Nichols home. He had lived in Mount Dora for twenty years before moving to Panama City.
Mrs Claudia Brockett widow of David Brockett died on Thursday in New Haven after an illness that began with a stroke in October. A winter visitor to Mount Dora for many seasons she left many friends behind. She had been in a New Haven Hospital since Thanksgiving.
Residents report keen fishing competition at Riley's Park with rivals Pau lie and Bumsy challenged by Mayor Crow Elsmore and Archer who have left for Orlando. A trial occurred in the recreation room with a stranger accused of stealing Grady's chickens, found guilty and sentenced by the Mayor.
Copies of the 1946 Better Fruit Program spray and dust schedule for citrus production are available at the county agent office at no cost. Published by the Florida Citrus Commission, the schedule draws on information from the Citrus Experiment Station and other Florida agricultural agencies and is a fully revised update from 1945.
Mount Dora heads to Winter Garden for an away game tomorrow and returns home to face Leesburg on Tuesday night in a nearby area showdown.
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