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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1940
Page
7
Photographs show large crowds visiting the Florida State Exhibit at the New York World’s Fair. Images capture visitors in the Main building aisles trying to glimpse the animated spectrums filling the niches. The exhibit is open Saturdays and Sundays from 11 A M to 11 P M.
Prof. Watson warns the palm leaf miner is a serious insect on palms. Infected fronds appear folded with saw dust. cut and burn badly infected fronds. Spray remaining trees with Bordeaux mixture and lead arsenate, adding one pound lead arsenate per 50 gallons. Treat all neighborhood palms simultaneously to curb moth spread. Red Aschersonia cultures cost $1 from the State Plant Board for whitefly control on citrus, enough for one acre. Rain boosts boll weevil development. cotton growers should inspect fallen squares and spray with calcium arsenate at once.
Leesburg will have at least eight new low cost houses built in the next months by a group of young businessmen led by W. F. Robinson George Singletary and J. Carlisle Rogers under the Federal Housing Administration plan. The first home costing 2500 to 2900 is completed and open for inspection with lot garage and built in features. Homes available with 10 down and small monthly payments. The effort earns praise from M. M. Parrish State Director FHA for Leesburg in Lake County.
A. L. Plexace and Billy Cade of Nashville with their guide report eight days of fishing at Wright's Fish Camp on Lake Apopka Montverde, catching 150 black bass including a 13 pound bigmouth. On the last day they kept 19 bass with a 9½ pound and a just under 9 pound fish. Unusually good fishing continues in Montverde on Lake Apopka.
Florida farmer should rush cowpea growth and apply regular controls against the curculio or pod weevil and the Southern green stink bug to obtain edible beans. Weevil life cycle and generations are outlined, with recommended soil, cultivation, irrigation, and early morning hand-pounding into kerosene pans to reduce pests. Stink bugs cause brown spots. use pyrethrum spray for nymphs and kerosene pans for adults. Mount Dora All-Star team to play Eustis at Tinker Field Sunday.
Clermont and surrounding Lake County towns regained daily bus service after an eighteen month pause. The northbound run reaches Clermont at 2 p.m. and Orlando at 2:55 p.m. The southbound departs Clermont at 4:20 p.m. and arrives in Tampa at 6:35 p.m.
Mr and Mrs Phil Arey and daughter Carolyn from New Orleans visit his parents in Montverde for two months. Phil Arey works with the Pest Eradication Program of the US Department of Agriculture in Louisiana and has requested a two month leave. He is a Montverde School and University of Florida agricultural graduate.
Tom Wright sworn in as councilman by Mayor N T Richardson. Karl Lehmann re-elected council president and Ralph Arey vice president. Wilton Butler reappointed water superintendent and cleared for fire department duties. Council funds travel to State Fire College, his fourth consecutive year attending.
Thomas K. Harvey of Washington D C visited Lake County after receiving county literature and spent a June fishing trip at Tom's Fishing Camp on Lake Apopka. The Lake Orange All-Stars faced Eustis in a baseball game at Tinker Field Orlando at 2:30 on Sunday.
A nostalgic sketch set at Mount Dora recalls the old Dolphin ship and its Chautauqua era moonlit cruises. Tourists gathered on deck and listen to memories of past voyages while the wrecked prow lies submerged and old Captain Gilbert’s cabin whispers of days gone by.
Look for oddly twisted trees wall shadows and strange cloud forms for your snapshot album. Try reflections, extreme angles, and shots from unusual vantage points to create fantastic images and floating subject tricks for entertaining party displays.
A poem by Paul Stokley recalls Mount Dora in past decades and notes his family arrival in 1894. The Dolphin steamship once ferried freight and passengers between Tavares, Mount Dora, and lake towns, with Gilbert Park linked to Captain Charles Gilbert and later Earl Gilbert, who donated the park.
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