Clean Up Campaign Goes Nationwide This Spring
The clean up, paint up, and fix up movement gains nationwide traction as spring activities roll out. Officials emphasize the effort’s central role in community improvement and civic pride.
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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1939
Page
8
Clean Up Mount Dora Week Promotes Healthier City
Proposal for a Clean Up week in Mount Dora seeks wholehearted cooperative action from property owners to improve cleanliness and boost property valuations in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Better Child Pictures Tips for Sharper Snapshots
John van Guilder offers practical guidance for better child snapshots. Emphasize storytelling with toys, choose backgrounds with contrast, move closer to subjects, and use fast shutter speeds to avoid blur. Focus accuracy and steady handling are key for clear, expressive photographs.
Clean Up Week Encourages Civic Pride and Beautification
The article urges neighbors to join in a citywide Clean Up Week with activities like mowing, weed control, shrub care, and planting. Property owners should manage vacant lots to reduce mosquitoes. A united effort would boost employment, prevent fire hazards, and attract winter visitors.
Beautifying Mount Dora Through Safer Corner Landscaping
A Mount Dora reader urges corner yards to pull back shrubs and trees to improve traffic safety and curb appeal. They advocate removing tall bushes by streets, trimming moss and mistletoe, painting aging buildings, and converting vacant lots into small shaded parks to enhance value and beauty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Sanford
Common wild animals attract children and adults alike
A proposal suggests keeping a few common wild animals as attractions. It notes they would interest both children and adults and could be fed with scraps from butcher shops and groceries, at little cost.
Mount Dora Beauty Proposal Seeks Lakefront Transformation
A reader argues Mount Dora’s lakefront could become one of the state’s loveliest towns if the railroad tracks are removed, waterways terraces are built, and the shore is landscaped with palms and flowering shrubs. The piece urges painting the depot, pruning weeds, and beautifying yards along the eastern approach to invite visitors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Davenport Ee
Lake Dora
Mount Dora
Mount Dora Beautification Plan Proposed by Residents
In a call to improve Mount Dora Florida a resident urges community action to clean streets plant flowers shrubs and maintain trees. The plan suggests painting boat houses tidying lakefronts and creating a citizen society with a fundraising campaign to fund beautification projects.
Forty Acres of Gladiolus Planted at Lake Harris Site
Lake County warehouses a new gladiolus planting on the south side of Lake Harris at Okahumpka. The Lake County Chamber of Commerce reports the project aims to produce bulbs and blooms, marking renewed interest after years with limited bulb production. A local quip on early rising ends the note.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Harris
Okahumpka
Lake County
Lake County Officials Named for 1920s Clerk Posts
A list of Lake County officials and candidates from Tavares and surrounding towns includes J. W. Hunter as circuit judge, Hethcox as state attorney, Cassady as sheriff, Dykes as circuit court clerk, Doss as tax assessor, Miller as registrar and superintendent, Norris as county agricultural agent, and others from Eustis Leesburg Umatilla Mount Dora and Clermont. The roster names Wylie Gillespie and Lucie Miller among county and home dem roles with representatives Cooley and Emara.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wap B. Koonce
Eustis
J. W. Hunter
Tavares
Wylie Gillespie
Lucie K. Miller
Agen
R. E. Norris
W. W. Bassett, Jr
State of Florida
Lake County
Lake
Bishop
Florida
Mount Dora
Lak County
Geo. J. Dykes
Circuit’ Court
Thomas H. Cooley
Cox
D.C
Peckann
Control methods for fungus in grass and flower pests
State Experiment Station in Gainesville notes brown centipede grass spots result from a fungus under wet fall and winter. If dead spots appear, replace with new grass and consider copper fungicides. For morning glory pests, spray pyrethrum or lead arsenate. mix arsenate with water and lime spreader. Canvas leaf rollers are controlled by arsenic or rotenone or pyrethrum. rotenone and pyrethrum miss grown caterpillars, arsenicals more effective and economical. Frequent rains require repeated applications while leaves hold treatment.
Circus Midgets Welcome Baby Boy To Traveling Family
Mr and Mrs Dick Flagle of Dayton Ohio welcomed a baby boy weighing six pounds six ounces by cesarean Monday The parents are circus performers who travel with traveling circuses The hospital reported mother and son both well The couple previously stood 46 and 47 inches tall respectively and a light moral note ends with a proverb about shadows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dick Flagle
Dayton
Ohio
Resolutions Mourn Passing of Brother James Jefferson Chapman
The lodge records mourn the death of Brother James Jefferson Chapman a true Mason and kind neighbor. The resolutions note his quiet greetings generous acts and friendly manner and call for delivering copies to his family publishing in Mount Dora Topic and filing with lodge records.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Jefferson Chapman
Chapman
Mount Dora
Eastern Air Lines reports surge in passengers
Eastern Air Lines carried about 19 000 revenue passengers last month, a 53 percent rise over June of last year, according to President E V Rickenbacker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern Air Lines
E. V. Rickenbacker
Disgusted Camper Leaves Nazi Band Camp Nordland
A 19-year-old Brooklyn girl testified she attended the German American Band Camp Nordland to learn leadership but left after three days because she was disgusted by how people carried on. The drukeness headline frames the report with a blunt definition of intoxication.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Nordland
Road Closures and Detours Reported Across Regions
The notice lists road disruptions and detours: State Road 25 closed between Belle Glade and West Palm Beach Canal with a detour via Pahokee Canal Point then east on State Road 194 to 25 at Twenty Mile Bend. Escambia River Bridge traffic on State Road 62 in Santa Rosa County suspended. Traffic from State Road 37 to U S 29 rerouted via Brewton Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belle Glade
West Palm Beach Canal
Pahokee
Canal Point
Twenty Mile Bend
Escambia River
Santa Rosa County
Brewton
Alabama
Notice to Creditors in Lake County Florida Estates
Public notice to all creditors and claimants for estates of John W. Cody Robert F. Pearson and Lillian E. Pearson in Lake County Florida. Claims must be filed within eight months from first publication with Lake County Judge A S Herlong Jr. at the county courthouse in Tavares. Administrators Esther Wyatt Edwin Malusky and Thomas H. Cooley solicit final discharge petitions by July 20 1939.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John W. Cody
Lake County
Florida
A. S. Herlong,Jr
Tavares
de Bonis
Robert F. Pearson
A. D
A. S. Herlong, Jr
Esther E. Wyatt
de Bonis Non
Lillian E. Pearson
Herlong, Jr
Edwin P. Malusky
Esther EB. Wyatt
Lillian DB. Pearson
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Wee Aie Ae Caen Ieee Eys
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Bobbie von Herbulis
McCall’s Magazine
Woman’s Home Companion
Farm Journal—Farmer’s Wife
Country Home
American Poultry Journal
Lowing Publications
McCall's Magazine
Farm Journal
Farmer’s Wife
Country
Southern Agriculturist
Jeanette Adair
Lake County Officials
Oan, H. H. Hethcox
Umatilla
Westbrook
Clermont
Lenan
F.mara
State Experiment Station
Gainesville
Circus
J. J. West
Nan J. Stuart
J. J. West Realty
Bund
Cleveland
U. S
Hen Wwallace
Congress
Brenlin Shades
Empire
Crane Furniture Co
Circuit Court
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Lake County, Florida
Lysle Stevens
Lillie A. Reeves
G. A. Combs
Gilbert
A. Combs
Lois Combs
Dorothy Combs
Gilbert A. Combs
John W. Copy
Robert PF. Pearson
Lillian B. Pharson
T. S. Kennedy
Mount Dora, Florida
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