City Council OKs first reading of bike safety ordinance
The council approved the first reading of an ordinance requiring all bicycle type vehicles to ride on the right, avoid sidewalks, display a front light and rear reflector or light, and be registered with a 25 cent city tag. Scooters and motorbikes fall under the law with similar registration and lighting rules. The measure stems from an accident involving 11-year-old George Cox and aims to cut injuries and theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Stewart
Tom Cooley
A. J. Waltz
George Cox
Mutual Interest Mounts for Florida Citrus Co-op
Grower interest in Florida Citrus Mutual grows with Lake County and Mount Dora leaders promoting the voice organization. Mount Dora growers study forming a new cooperative in Orlando amid ads. J Collier Cooper calls Central Florida Growers a step forward, while G B Hurlburt notes Mutual has signed 75 percent locally and needs more to go statewide. A partial Mount Dora signatory list is published with more to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida Citrus Mutual
Citrus
Lake County
Mount Dora
Orlando
J. Collier Cooper
Mutual
M. B. Allen
E. J.brough
Mrs Brydon Dies In Illinois After 20 Winters At Mount Dora
Mrs. J H Brydon died in LaGrange Illinois after a long association with Mount Dora Florida where she and her husband spent more than two decades visiting and later owning homes. She was active in the Riverside Eastern Star and Mount Dora social life and leaves a husband two sons a daughter and five grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. H. Brydon
Mount Dora
Florida
Eastern Star
Riverside
Brydon
William. E. Southwood
Ands
LaGrange
John
Len Ellyn
Softball League Opens New Play In Summer Recreation
The city summer recreation league resumes after the break with Rehbaum's Hard rt and undefeated first half leaders. Coach Floyd Jaggears invites players to join, with men's games on Mon Wed Thu at the high school field and women's games Tue and Fri. Crane's Furniture Co and Zellwood share second with 4–2 records. Lions Club 3–3. Sorrento 2–4. City 2–4. AM & S Sales 0–6. The opening pairings include Jenai and Goringuly versus Sorrento and Rehbaum Zellwood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rehbaum
Hardrt
Floyd Jaggears
High Aes
Crane’s Furniture Co
Zell‘wood
Pine Wood Use Urged Over Fuel Scraps
A wartime guidance note urges citizens to avoid burning pine wood for fuel and instead use scrub oaks and pest trees for energy. It highlights preserving pines for essential uses and stresses efficient resource management during shortages.
Dorans Youth Team Ends Winter Garden Run With Defeat
The Dorans American Legion youth team, all Mount Dora under 18 players, defeated Winter Garden 6 to 4 ending their 28 win streak. They schedule games next at Helm Field Friday 3 30 and Sanford Tuesday 2 30.
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Dorans
Winter Garden
Mount Dora High School
Helmfield
Sanford
Council, Mayor Battle over Grocer Losses in Wiring Incident
A Robiest grocery store loss due to a faulty wiring connection is debated as Mayor J E Fortner demands firing the party responsible. C H Durham claims 185 dollars in spoiled meats and a forced eight day closure cutting trade by 60 percent. City officials assign an investigation to Bardwell Hale and Cooley while repairs were completed in two to five days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. E. Fortner
C. H. Durham
Fortner
Durham
R. C. Bardwell
Light Department
Harold Overhiser
R. R. Eddy
Bardwell
Otis Hale
Tom Cooley
Handy Item Trees
A tree acts as a conservationist by using its network of roots to push through the soil and hold rainwater for later storage.
Leesburg Hires Floyd Jaggears as Coach and Mentor
Leesburg announces Floyd Jaggears will teach and coach the Yellow Jackets next fall replacing Jock Sutherland who moves to Fort Myers. Jaggears, a Mount Dora High School alumnus who began his career in 1947 48, plans to relocate with his wife Mrs Jaggears to establish a new home in Leesburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Jaggears
Yellow Jackets
Leesburg
Jaggears
Mount Dora
Births in Mount Dora and Eustis July Fourth and Fifth
John Daniel Pease III arrived at Eustis Waterman Memorial hospital on July 5 born to Mr and Mrs John Daniel Pease Jr The mother is Anna Margaret White daughter of George J White One Mount Dora area birth was recorded for July 4 W L Durden son of Mr and Mrs W D Durden Plymouth
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John Daniel ‘Pease, III
Eustis Waterman Memorial Hospital
John Daniel Pease, Jr
Anna Margaret White
George J. White
Mount Dora
W. L. Durden
W. D. Durden
Plymouth
Mount Dora Goal Highlighted in Traffic Report
The study released in Tallahassee shows the Orange Blossom Trail south of Ocala as the second heaviest traveled road in Florida in May. U.S. 441 between Ocala and Orlando via Leesburg topped only Plant City to Tampa. Traffic rose 7 percent from May 1947 and 30 percent from May 1941, with the Ocala south segment showing the largest year over year increase. Electric recorders confirmed the heavy and rising volume through Lake County.
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Ocala
Florida
Tallahassee
State Road Department
Orlando
Leesburg
Plant City
Tampa
U.S. 441
State
Lake County
Attorney Hubbell Dies In Utica
Word reaches Mount Dora this week of the death in Utica New York of Attorney James F Hubbell wintertime resident of Mount Dora He died June 10 of a heart attack and services were in Utica Sixty members of the bar attended the funeral while members of his law firm served as pallbearers Burial was in Sanquoit Valley cemetery He leaves his widow Mrs Ada C Hubbell
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Mount Dora
Utica
N. Y
James F. Hubbell
Sanquoit Valley
Ada C. Hubbell
The King of Trees Oak Used For Food Before Corn
The oak known as the King of Trees supplied acorns used as food in Europe long before the grain corn became common.
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Stalin
Europe
Personalities Around Mount Dora Gudgeon Family Electrifies Town
The narrative traces C M Gudgeon and his father Tom shaping Mount Dora’s early electrical landscape. From Fifth and Donnelly’s 60 watt bulbs to the white way system, they expanded wiring across Homes like Sylvan Shores. Tom handed the business to Clarence after 64 years in the trade, while Clarence retraced paths from wagon umbrellas to Middletown Power Co. and Ohio Gas & Electric, highlighting a life woven with cities, firms, and a growing electrical empire.
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C. M. Gudgeon
Mount Dora
Fifth
Donnelly
Alexander
Dayton
Ohio
Tom Gudgeon
Sylvan Shores
Lakeside
Grand View
Middleton
Clarence
Father
American Fixture Manufacturing Co
Midwest
Middletown
Middletown Power Co
Sam Insul
Ohio Gas & Electric Co
Grasans
Clarence Gudgeon’s Florida wiring boom and milestones
Clarence M. Gudgeon left his assistant to the first vice president post in 1919 to join the Miami Valley Conservancy district, later moving to Florida. In Mount Dora he wired the southeast side with his father, installing transformers, seeking lightning arresters the town council refused. A severe storm toppled all transformers the day before he left. In 1925 his firm won the white way systems contract, fueling a Florida wiring surge as they wired packing houses and other projects.
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Gudgeon
Miami Valley Conservancy District
Dayton
Florida
Mount Dora
City Extends Oak Demessing Test Along Fifth Avenue
The City Council ordered a two block continuation of a test on demossing and pruning aging oaks around City Hall. Two weeks ago 20 trees were cut near the City Hall block with closer supervision despite objections to cutting green limbs to hasten the process. Work extends from Fifth to Grandview Street.
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Fifth Av
City Hall
Fifth
Grandview St
Fletcher Crane Named To Fill Council Post
Fletcher Crane is appointed by Mayor J. E. Fortner to fill the expired term of R. E. Morse on Mount Dora City Council. Crane, head of Crane Furniture Co., previously served 13 years on the council and remains active with the Chamber of Commerce Merchants Division. The council also debated a demossing plan for about 500 old trees, with Onie Jones contracted to prune at six dollars per tree and facing scrutiny from Louis Tremain over pruning methods.
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D. Fletcher Crane
J. E. Fortner
R. E. Morse
Crane
Crane Furniture Co
Merchants Division
Chamber of Commerce
Mount Dora
Mt. Kisco
N. Y
J. H. Crane
Rehbaum Hardware Co
Morse
Onie Jones
Louis Tremain
R. C. Tremain
Tremain
Jones
al Rehbaum, Jr
Pigeons Targeted in Town Council Session
During a council meeting, discussion centered on pigeons nuisance complaints from Mrs. John Alvord and Mrs. Lillian Christie. Officials joked about shooting them, with Mayor Fortner asking police to investigate elimination options while noting safety concerns. The matter was referred to the mayor and police for inquiry.
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Tremain St
J. E. Fortner
Lillian Christie
John Alvord
Mrs. Christie
Mayor Fortner
Eddy
Tom Cooley
Classified mixup leads lad to mistaken theater passes
A boy scanning the Topic classifieds finds an ad reading Fuller the better and a note under it promises two passes to a Princess theatre for Glenn Ford. The staff explains the name mix up and urges him to recheck the page. The lad learns his own ad will appear and his name may be listed alongside Glenn Ford’s.
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Lad
Fuller
Mount Dora
Glenn Ford
Topic
Princess Theatre
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Brenwood Studio
Battle
Grocer
J.D. P
Hubbell
Mabel Norris Reese
Cc. M. Gudgeon
Clarence M. Gudgeon
Fletcher Crane
Council
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