Brand Committee Studies Citrus Plans General Growers Meet
Mount Dora Growers Cooperative manager G B Hurlburt joins a seven member panel to launch a Florida citrus master brand. Lake County Chamber of Commerce leaders aim to convene growers and packers for a brand plan debate with Lakes and Hills as a top contender. Volusia County figures back the effort though not part of the initial meeting.
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G. B. Hurlburt
Mount Dora
Lacy Thomas
Groveland
Agriculture
Lake County
Volusia County
Karl Lehmann
The
Lake Chamber
Tom B. Stewart
Lehmann
Florida
Thomas
Noon horn replaces siren for Mount Dora fire alerts
Fire Chief Ernie Mosteller explains a Gamewell Wiz Air Horn will serve as the noon signal and fire emergency alert in Mount Dora. The device, praised as a top public alarm, will be used with future automatic controls and street boxes to identify the affected town section. Residents are urged to yield to volunteers rushing to fires.
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Mars
Mount Dora
Fero
Ernie Mosteller
Gamewell
Fire Department
Mosteller
Holiday Warning Seeks Safe Fourth Weekend Travel
Mount Dora residents brace for July Fourth traffic as state safety officials urge careful driving. July’s accident toll last year stood at 537 with 67 deaths, up from the prior year. Local plans include a Rehbaum Hardware fishing trip and park cookout, while others head to Daytona Beach for the holiday.
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State Department of Public Safety
Mount Dora
H. N. Kirkman
Safety Department
Dorans
Rehbaum Hardware Co
Trimble Park
Dora
Beauclair
al Rehbaum, Jr
Paul M. Snowberger
Bobby Goodman
J. M. Greene
E. M. Greene
Henry Beims
Pay Light Bills Or Dance In The Dark
City Council voted to cut electric power to residents and businesses with bills overdue by 20 days. A downtown grocery with $84 owed and a home with $276 in arrears have already lost service, per council plans to curb back taxes.
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Tom Cooley
R. R. Eddy
Utilities Committee
Stick Stick Make Chamber Pay Bill
Mount Dora Town Council rejected funding for summer shuffleboard to aid residents. R C Bardwell chair of the chamber recreation committee sought 50 dollars for eight sticks and four disk sets, but council, advised by City Attorney Tom Cooley, refused town funds for non sponsored recreation. The chamber must pay for the equipment itself to avoid opening the gate to other groups.
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R. C. Bardwell
Mount Dora
Four Days of Bathing and Fishing at Bradenton
Millard Reid and youngsters Charles and Conkee enjoyed four days of bathing and fishing at Bradenton last weekend. Millard says there was more fishing than fish during the outing.
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Bradenton
Millard Reids
Charles
Conkee
Millard
Mount Dora Red Cross Buoys City Swimming Program
William J Barker executive director of the Lake County American Red Cross leads 62 beginners at Lakeside Inn pool with Jim Wetz and Horace Adams assisting. Eight adults and fifty four children gain confidence in water as Barker plans night swims for adults. Lake Red Cross funds and praise total 150 dollars support.
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William J. Barker
Mount Dora
Barker
Lake County
American Red Cross
Jim Wetz
Outfit 19
Lakeside Inn
Horace Adams
Wetz
George Simms
Charles Moorhead
Wade Simpson
Billy Carroll
Aline Paul
Lake Red Cross Board
Inauguration of Mount Dora Weekly Business Directory
The article announces a new weekly business directory for Mount Dora residents and businesses. The directory compiles advertisements from local services to provide quick reference and will appear regularly on Page Seven each week.
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Mount Dora
Drys Seek Special Election On Prohibition In Florida County
Florida’s Lake County moves toward a vote on whether to remain wet or revert to prohibition. Lawmen doubt passage, citing bootlegging concerns. County Ministerial Association and church workers gathered petitions, needing 250 more names to reach the 25 percent threshold of 10 000 voters.
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Florida
Lake County
County Ministerial Association
New Florida map features rail routes counties and attractions
A two yard square map of Florida issued by the Department of Agriculture arrived in Mount Dora this week. It covers rail routes and county histories and populations, lists principal city populations, 34 tourist attractions and physical facts.
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Florida
Mount Dora
Department of Agriculture
Mount Dora Personalities Feature Louis Tremain and Tremain Trees
The Mount Dora column extols Louis Tremain and his family of Tremain trees planted in 1886 in an estate east of Tremain Street. It recalls water-hauling for trees, praise for the Tremain legacy, and hopes for more plantings while noting the town’s history and the old Royallieu name linked to Lake Dora.
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Dora Canal
Mount Dora
Silver Springs
George Lamoreux
Louis Tremain
Louis
Mr. Tremain
R. C. Tremain
Tremain St
Lake Dora
Dora
Tremain
Gene Downs
Linotype
Royallieu
I. M. Mabbett
Roy
Ella
Mavens
Antler and Rhodes
Tremain and Mount Dora History in Early Roots
Louis R. Tremain shaped Mount Dora’s early community by starting a Sunday school in his home and aiding local agriculture. He helped develop a 400 acre Deer Island grove and a 10 acre vegetable grove near Gilbert Park, returning to Mount Dora after studying business, chemistry, and botany. The Tremain family launched a business in 1894 amid a December freeze, as locals recall his influence on town growth.
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R. C
Tremain
Mount Dora
Jessie Pike
Stella Owens
Munroe van Simpson
Old Marsh
Eustis
Deer Island
R. C. Tremain
Mount
Doracember
Mount Dora Seeks Bids for Modern Garbage System
Sanitation Improvement Council calls for bids on a load packer type body and new truck basis to modernize collection. Bids open August 5 with estimated cost around 5 200 dollars. Mayor will study units in Bartow as council plans October inauguration.
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Mount Dora
William Stewart
Stewart
Florida
J. E. Fortner
Bartow
R. R. Eddy
Barker Sails July 24 For Scout Jamboree
William J. Barker adviser for Senior Outfit 19 leads five Central Florida Boy Scouts to sail July 24 from Mount Dora to France for the Jamboree voyage aboard the U Muir. They attend a pre jamboree course in Raleigh and travel to Belgium and Holland before Moisson for the jamboree with a total group of 30,000 scouts. The five boys earning the trip are Hugh Campbell of Eustis, Lancaster Starke of DeLand, Howard Gould, Robert Stine, and Charles Clark, all of Orlando.
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Central Florida
William J. Barker
France
U Muir
Barker
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Mount Dora
Raleigh Oa
Camp
Rikner
Nan
Belgium
Holland
Moisson
Doran
Hugh C. Campbell
Eustis
Lancaster C. Starke
DeLand
Howard C. Gould
Robert H. Stine
Charles W . Clark
Orlo
Raoul Barker Celebrates A 15th Birthday
Raoul Barker 15 yesterday and added to the Senior division records by his father William J. Barker executive director of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce and Scout Unit 19 director. The name reflects his French birth and the family’s naming confusion with Ralph.
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Raoul
Raoul Barker
William J. Barker
Lake County
Barkers
Ralph
America
Florence Jeannette Wilson Born at Lake County Medical Center
Mr and Mrs Dupree Wilson announce the birth of a six pound baby girl named Florence Jeannette on June 28 at Lake County Medical Center in Eustis. Mrs Wilson is known as Alberta of Alberta's Beauty Shop.
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Florence
Dupree Wilson
Lake County Medical Center
Eustis
Florence Jeannette
Four Dora Boys Escape Death After Car Crash
Mount Dora youths Don Shubert William Stephens L G Simpson Jr and Charles Davenport of Zellwood narrowly escaped serious injury when their car blew a tire and crashed into a tree near Eustis. Stephens 17 required x rays but no serious injury. Davenport was driving as they sped home from a Boy Scout meeting.
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Mount Dora District
Don Shubert
William Stephens
L. G. Simpson, Jr
Mount Dora
Charles Davenport
Zellwood
Stephens
O. D. Stephens
Eustis Hospital
Young Davenport
Eustis
Javens Returns From Army to Resume College
Charles Javens, recently discharged from the Army, spends the summer with his parents Mr and Mrs C R Javens. Attached to the 13th Air Force he was stationed at Manila for the past ten months. He will reenter college this Fall.
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Javens
C. R. Javens
Charles Javens
Army
13Th Air Force
Manila
Shameful desertion of Dora anglers robs lake’s fame
Mount Dora men and an Eustis fisherman returned with 400 pounds of grouper off Clearwater. The article rebukes five local anglers including Lloyd Atkins and Jack Ed uthier for abandoning Dora to chase offshore big catches, calling them deserters of the best fishing in the world.
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Lake County
Mount Dora
Eustis
Clearwater
Lloyd Atkins
Reims
Jack Eduthier
Gulf
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Man
Chamber
Dora Services
Drys
Mabel Norris Reese
Louis R. Tremain
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