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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1939
Page
5
Mr and Mrs A E Davis marked their thirty seventh anniversary Sunday at Daytona Beach guests included Mr and Mrs Sidney Lane and Miss Hilda Streeton. They enjoyed a picnic lunch at noon and in the afternoon rain kept them from the beach so they went to a movie.
The first annual summer reunion of Lakeside Inn guests will be held next week at Lake Placid Club in the Adirondacks. Invitations were sent by Richard Edgerton, Lakeside managing director and Lake Placid Club assistant to the president. The program includes a golf tournament and bowling.
Anne Shirley and James Ellison headline a story of a small town girl chasing a college education and sorority life. Miss Shirley faces social pressure and scheming classmates as her father’s store is mortgaged to fund her ambitions. J. M. Kerrigan plays the sacrificing father with an authentic campus atmosphere. Also showing Unmarried with Helen Twelvetrees and Buck Jones featuring a mix of drama and light comedy.
A Saturday night banquet follows a bridge party held on July 15. Attendees will gather for the refreshments and festivities after the event.
The Woman's Missionary Union of the First Baptist Church held an all day meeting and covered dish luncheon at the home of Mrs. E. C. Stovall on Fifth avenue. Twenty-one ladies attended with worthwhile programs in forenoon and afternoon sessions.
Mr and Mrs W A Conrad of Mount Dora Florida were guests of honor at a Sunday picnic hosted by Mr and Mrs Eugene Allen of Swartz Creek Michigan and Mount Dora Florida. Tables loaded with dishes and hospitality marked the event.
A veranda reception in Mount Dora gathers twenty three members of the Midwest Gang with families from Michigan and Florida. Attendees include Eugene and Mamie Dye from Swartz Creek, Emmet Lawrence, Floyd Miller, Earl Beebe, John Erickson, and Conrad and Claire Allen, among others.
Miss Frances Baker, former Mount Dora resident, married De Vere Arnold, Columbia Studios writer, in Los Angeles. The couple, now honeymooning in San Francisco, plan a post wedding visit to New York for the World's Fair.
Personal notes list trips and visits among residents and relatives. Esther Roberts enjoys a Cuban vacation while O C Flowers visits Sylvester to see her cats. Vivia Craig travels to Dade City and Bartow for weeks, and H C Hoodelmier heads to Auburn Indiana for the summer. Carl Henderson families spend time in Kentucky, Norman Tuckett returns from a month at the World’s Fair and New York area relatives. The Browns plan a two month stay at Indian Rocks and Amos Adams visits Elberton Georgia with children Dorothy and Horace. An A C Chapman from Kissimmee and son Clifford of New Smyrna visit Claude Chapman and relatives, and E L Downs visits Daytona Beach with cousin Mrs Frank Welchel in Gainesville. Flossie Vance and daughter Dorothy of Steubenville Ohio visit Velma Nice who is improving after illness, while A P Sidel travels with party to Utica Michigan and White.
At State Theatre Eustis Sunday and Monday the Paramount drama Invitation to Happiness stars Irene Dunne and Fred MacMurray. A prize fighter marries a society girl then leaves for the ring, a son is born, and a custody case leads to a tense family reunion.
The article notes several households planning trips through Ohio and Vermont with visits to friends in Poultney and Orlando. It mentions Miss Dorothy Loveless earning a scholarship honor at Stetson University and a student plans to start as a sophomore there. It also recounts visits by Dr. H T Fenn and Mrs. Fenn to Brooksville for Fourth of July family time and tracking relatives in Crawfordsville Georgia.
The Leaguers will hold an ice cream and cake sale in Donnelly Park tomorrow night at 8 o clock. Proceeds support club activities and community events.
Sorrento residents and relatives are noted visiting family across Florida. Mr and Mrs John Moye of Augusta Georgia travel toward Haines City for a week. Aleen and Doris Cowart visit cousins in Mascotte. Mildred and Jewel Seawright stay with Aunt Mrs Tom Battle. families spend time at Coronado Beach and Indian Rocks. The Baptist Sunday School held a Rock Springs picnic.
J D Chatman father of Mrs Carrie Jones of Mount Dora died Monday morning June 25 at his Fort Myers home. Funeral services were held in Lakeland at Futch Steen Broadfield with Rev James S Day Jr and Rev J W Jelks officiating. Burial at Roselawn Lakeland beside his wife. Survived by two sons A J and J P Chatman of Ocala and four daughters Mrs Carrie Jones Mount Dora Mrs A J Hooker Fort Myers Mrs W A Stewart Orlando and Mrs Lucy Kossert Lakeland. Grandchildren include C B Kossert in submarine service New London Conn and Lloyd Eason Atlanta Georgia.Born in Georgia, lifelong Methodist active in church work.
We thank friends neighbors and Rev R W Acree for kindness during our father and brother s illness and death and for the beautiful flowers. Mr and Mrs Robert Fenton Mrs Marie Bumgardner Mrs Mary Schneider Mrs Hattie Wynne Miss Eliza Orton.
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