Drys Push Local Vote on County Liquor Sale Ban
County commissioners set March 4 for a countywide vote on continuing liquor sales or restricting to packaged goods. Florida Drys led petitions showing 25 percent of registered voters eligible. If passed, prohibition would force off premise consumption and affect five Mount Dora bars, with two nearby Orange County stores unaffected. Registration centers will open for residents to sign up before the May 4 primary.
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Lake Countiaes
Florida Drys
Drys
Lions Club Carnival of 49 Promises Wild West Themed Fundraiser
Mount Dora hosts a two night Lions club event February 6 and 7 featuring gambling tables and a saloon atmosphere with $10 drinks and $20 dances. Proceeds benefit blind care sight programs Girl Scouts Youth Center and community projects. Entertainers include pioneer women in period dress and Diamond Jim Brady figures with sheriffs for order.
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Lions Club
49Ers
Third and
Donnelly Sts
Lions
F.B.I
Jos
Little House
Franklin Park
Diamond Jim Brady
Dora Students Win Places In Art Exhibit
Twenty one Mount Dora high school students lead Lake county schools in a Central Florida art exhibit judged in Orlando. The exhibit travels to Marion, Seminole, Volusia and Flagler counties, then Mount Dora, under the Florida Educational association. Noted art teacher Miss Edith Fairfax Davenport mentors the group. winners include Carol Simpson and many others across grades from one through eleventh.
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Mount Dora High School
Lake County
Florida
Orlando
Mount Dora
Marion
Seminole
Volusia
Flagler
Florida Educational Association
Dora
Edith Fairfax Davenport
Carol Simpson
Herman Lee Payne
Alma Jean Jones
Mary Anne Brotherson
Frederick Kurras
David Vanzant
John Groves, Jr
Cora Anne Sadler
Robert Bennett
Kenneth Cox
Richard Denson
Sandra Carroll
Barbara Siess
Jeanette Floyd
Doyle Clark
Jay Malone
Jackie Shannon
Ann Bowers
Phillip Boyd
Martha
Patty Clafflin
Death claims winter visitor Benjamin Dardis
Benjamin Dardis 76 a resident of Simpson hotel died Saturday at Eustis hospital while on a Florida vacation. A retired salesman he was a longtime member of the Mount Dora Shuffleboard club nicknamed Uncle Ben. Services were held in Beloit Wisconsin, his summer home, leaving a widow and a sister.
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Florida
Benjamin Dardis
Simpson Hotel
Eustis Hospital
Beloit
Wis
Dardis
Mount Dora
Uncle Ben
Mabel Ritch to Appear in Mount Dora Concert
Mabel Ritch contralto, noted in the United States and Canada, will perform Friday evening February 6 at the Community building Mount Dora. Kenneth Newbern will accompany on piano for a varied program including Brahms Die Mannasch Grieg Mid Somer Night and Purcell Ah How Sweet Is Love. Tickets available at Chamber of Commerce Mount Dora Pharmacy and hotel lobbies.
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Mount Dora
Ritch
Brahms
Grieg
Purcell
A. A. Stanley
Music Group
Lake Coleman
Chamber of Commerce
Mount Dora Chamber to Elect Directors at Annual Meeting
Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual meeting Friday at 6 30 p m in the Community building with Justice Tom Sebring as speaker. Six directors will be elected and a plan of work for the future will be discussed along with reports from the nominating committee. Two hundred tickets have been sold for the event, a highlight of the businessmen’s year.
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Mount Dora
Lions and Kiwanis
Chamber
Justice Sebring
Florida
Nueremburg
Dick Edgerton
Carl Graves
Sylvan Shores Hotel
J. E. Fortner
Tom Cooley
J. G. Ray, Jr
G. B. “Crip” Hurlburt
R. C. Bardwell
Paul Milner
Lake Dora Targeted in State Fishing Survey
The State Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission announced a fishing survey on five lakes Lake Dora Beauclair Eustis G fin and Harris. Seining crews under John F Dequine will use 1000 yard nets for check hauls over about a month to determine fish numbers species and predator ratios.
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Lake County
State Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Dora
Beauclair
Eustis
G Fin
Harris
Florida
John F. Dequine
Dequine
Florida orange juice pasteurized and canned for California
Florida's Vacuum Foods Corp in Plymouth near Mount Dora processes 48,000 gallons daily of orange juice concentrate. The plant uses multi wash steps and vacuum evaporators to preserve flavor and vitamins, with distribution reaching California and employing 250 workers in three shifts.
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Florida
Citrus Belt
California
Vacuum Foods Corp
Plymouth
Mount Dora
Orange Blossom Trail
Vacuum Foods
Orlando
Charles Norris
L. G. Macdowell
Florida Citrus Commission
Macdowell
Weekend Shortage of Topics Frustrates Readers
The paper reports shortages as drug stores ran out of Topics last weekend while demand rose. Editors urge readers to join a mail list to receive Thursday deliveries, noting the 52 issue price remains $2.00.
New Arrivals in Mount Dora greet Mary Ellen Spilliard and Ron Harvey Kimball Jr
Two newborns were welcomed this week at Edestis Waterman Memorial Hospital in Mount Dora. Mary Ellen Spilliard was born January 21 to Mr. and Mrs. David Spilliard, and Ron Harvey Kimball Jr. was born to Mr. and Mrs. Donald Harvey Kimball.
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Mount Dora
Edstis Waterman Memorial Hospital
Mary Ellen Spilliard
David Spilliard
Ron Harvey Kimball, Jr
Donald Harvey Kimball
Man Overcame Illness With Salt Springs Water
Frank Davidson of Mount Dora turns 75 and credits Salt Springs waters for his recovery after years of illness. A Navy veteran commended recently, Davidson began drinking and bathing in the spring water in 1930 after hearing miracles about its curative powers. The Marion county spring yields 52 million gallons daily and is linked to his renewed health and enlistment.
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Mount Dora
Donnelly St. Hill
Donnelly St
Frank Davidson
Navy
Naval Air Station
Jacksonville
Helen
Frances
Mary Lou
Florida
Ocala
Salt Springs
Eustis
Davidson
Marion County
Bulletin of the
Florida Geological Survey
St. Culeree
Salt Springs Mineral Content and Historic Springs Site
The bulletin notes very hard mineral solids and saline content from ancient sea residues at Salt Springs, Florida. The springs, once a gathering point for early Spanish settlers, now host cottages and boating fish facilities, draining into Lake George. Salt Springs tops Florida for mineral concentration at 5,850 parts per million. Davidson, born in Canada and raised in New Hampshire, works daily at the tax station and is said to be involved in secret projects at the station.
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Florida
Lake George
Salt
Davidson
Canada
Davison
New Hampshire
City Council approves 20 percent electricity increase
City officials narrow a proposed rise to 20 percent on March bills while rejecting Councilman Bardwell’s plan to add a 20 percent surcharge after a 10 percent service tax. Mayor Fortner cites offsetting fuel oil cost hikes and double taxation concerns amid debates over revenue losses from oil price increases.
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R. C. Bardwell
Bardwell
Tom Cooley
Fortner
Florida Power Corp
al Rehbaum, Jr
Rehbaum
J. M. Turner
R. R. Eddy
R. E. Morse
Florida Power
Bearded Avenger Captures Wandering Swindler in Mount Dora
Kendall Jones recognizes the bearded man known as Mr. Harris alias Hamilton alias Walters, who swindled Mount Dora merchants last spring by selling ad space. The arrestee was taken to Eustis jail then Mount Dora for investigation, facing justice from a bearded vigilante.
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Willis McCall
Mount Dora
Mr. Harris
Mr. Hamilton
Mr. Walters
Eustis
Harris
Lions Club
49Ers
Kendall Jones
Kendall
God of Chance
Jones
Lake County Needs 4000 For March of Dimes Drive
Lake county lags in polio fund collecting with $4,000 still required to cover future victims and braces for 1946 1947 patients. Drive leaders warn 1948 could see another outbreak while the hospitalization and care fund runs dry. Campaigns run countywide including Clermont theater collections and house to house canvassing in Mount Dora and other towns.
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Lake County
John F. Groves
Mount Dora
National Foundation For
Clermont
Tuesday Ventriloquist and Music Night at Community Club
The Community club plans a Tuesday entertainment night featuring ventriloquist Capt. J Donald Powers and contralto Aimes Hummell with Mel Ogden, tenor. Margaret Williams will host. A program titled Music from Everywhere includes auto horn and bell demonstrations by Fred Swift, plus pianist Jules Leonard and a roller skating act.
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J. Donald Powers
Aimes Hummell
Mel Ogden
Margaret Williams
Fred Swift
Jules Leonard
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Ben’ Dardis
Mabel Ritch
Cofc
Lake Dora
Mabel Norris Reese
F. W. Davidson
Council
Man With Beard Pictures
Lake Dimes
Ventriloquist
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