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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 08, 1926
Page
6
Local items note Pick-Up Grocery offering a three dollar sale for 1.69 and Saturday specials. Numerous residents visit Daytona Beach and North Carolina. families travel for the Fourth of July, including the Bontempts, Lawson, and Gal laghers. Visitors and guests arrive, with Ralph Harding of Tampa and Charles Heim visiting Mount Dora.
Miss Clyde Yearta and nurse trainee Beauchamp spent the weekend with her parents on Alexander Street. Miss Moon read Nesbitt’s poem at the Prince Theatre anniversary event. Evangelist King will speak to the Men’s Bible Class next Sunday. Mr and Mrs W E Lackey visited Daytona Beach. Mrs J G Ray and daughter Margaret plus Mrs Dooley and two children travel to Daytona Beach for two months. Hotel Mount Dora improvements speed up. Bill Tyson joins Atlantic Coast Line after leaving Western Union. Accompanied by Miss Lillian Holland, Mr and Mrs Thomas Keller of
Bradenton residents left for New York City by motor. Mrs Mary Daly Fish and sisters Mrs Keller and Mrs Fish hosted visits. T P Opie and family head to Hilton New Jersey summer home. Others relocate to Medina Ohio and Mount Dora. A new post office clerk named Bud Burchett joins the staff.
Publicity Scout Robert N. White appeals to Scouts and eligible non Scouts to gather for a Friday evening meeting. He notes expected attendees Scout Masters Coffin and Blanchard and hopes Captain Cooley can attend. He envisions a Mount Dora building at Campa Wewa next year and urges boys to unite.
Mount Dora Troop of Boy Scouts under Captain Tom Cooley and Col. Sanborn plan a Friday gathering at 6 pm inviting all town Scouts in uniform with meals. They will travel to Camp Wewa for water activities, a high dive, camp fire, and a Wild West talk before returning home. The event aims to enroll more eligible non Scouts and attract about 150 participants.
Classified ad notes a piano for 50 dollars and four 50x165 foot lots one block from pavement offered by owner Mrs L C Morse on Donnelly street plus a Heywood Wakefield baby carriage in perfect condition from Mount Dora Shoe Shop inquiries via Box 956 Mount Dora.
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