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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1938
Page
8
A Florida harvest note reports 8454 fertilizer brands offered to farmers and landscapers, with one company listing 577 brands and 51 mixtures. The spread unsettles buyers while a local home demonstration group explores mango seed tassels as window shade strings.
A special committee will meet at the call of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace on July 9 in Washington to survey fruit fly losses in Florida. Congress provided 10 000 dollars for the survey, to be conducted by James W. Morton of Athens Georgia Arthur Porcher Cocoa Dr J Crump Winter Haven Ben H Thibidoous and Bernard Conner with the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine providing assistance.
The State Dairy Association will meet in Lake City on July 12 and 13 and its members will join general farmers in Gainesville on July 14 for a dairy agronomy field day at the College of Agriculture.
The Lake County Board of Public Instruction approved the wartime school budget and teacher contracts. Pay remains the same with some experience raises and summer-school credits. new policy requires at least a two-year college diploma for elementary teachers and a four-year degree for high school staff. Transportation rules tighten with a bus stop signal and driver duties to ensure pupil safety during loading and crossing streets.
The cornerstone of Montverde public school auditorium will be laid at 2 30 Saturday afternoon July 9 in a public ceremony. R W Harper Jr will chair District 34 trustees and Mayor R W McQuaig will be the speaker. Subscribe for the Topic.
The Supreme Court will review Judge E C Love’s injunction rulings in Atlantic Coast Line Railroad tax cases. The decisions limit ad valorem taxes, set a 95 percent budgeting ceiling, constrain rail bond levies, and require protest timing. The ruling extends tax benefits to railroad property statewide and clarifies bond notice and validation procedures.
Governor Fred P. Cone announced there will be no uptick in the state real estate tax set at three and five-eights mills, unchanged from last year. The levy supports the state school fund the Livestock Sanitary Board the Prison fund the free text book fund and the pension fund with one mill dedicated to the school fund.
M J Bouterse Jr son of famous radio evangelists will address Montverde Community Church Sunday morning July 10 at 10 55 a m The service merges with Montverde Union Sunday School and invites the public to attend The young man plans ministry in a Philadelphia seminary and is in Florida during vacation He spoke June 19 and returns for a second sermon on July 10 due to popular demand
Lake County Chamber of Commerce will present colored motion pictures free in the Tavares courthouse at 8 p m Friday July 8 Col C E Lester president announces The board of directors meets at 7 30 p m in the same room before the program The Miami city purchase of 1500 acres in Biscayne Bay from the state for 10000 marks the harbor dev plan
By final decree in Chan cery No. 6238 J W Smith and Lake Crate & Lumber Co with Dorothy Gray Johnson named defendants, Special Master Kennedy to sell at public auction August 1 1938 at the Tavares courthouse for cash the property in Mount Dora described as blocks 6 11 14 Sadler Subdivision with a 9271 25 total debt plus costs.
Hortense L. Davis as guardian petitions Lake County Court for authority to sell the undivided three fourths interest of Gerald Martin Davis Frances Helen Davis and Bess Barney Davis in Lot 5, Block 240, Town of Mount Dora, Union subdivision. The hearing is set July 29, 1988 at 11:00 AM before Judge A B Jerlong Jr at the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares Florida.
John A. Watts has filed to offer for sale Tax Certificate No. 1820 of 1934. The certificate covers unpaid state and county taxes for 1938 on Lots 35 and 36, Block A, Oakwood, Mt. Bers in Lake County. Sale to the highest bidder for cash at the court house door in Tavarés on July 11 at 11 o'clock. Dated June 1938. Official seal of Circuit Court, Lake County Florida. y A. J. Harnage, D. C.
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