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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1939
Page
5
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church will be entertained Friday July 14 by Mrs H A Dahm at her Sylvan Shores home. Cars leave the church at 2 45 p m. A dance tonight at Little Joe's on the Eustis Road offers prizes and music by Mount Dora and Eustis performers. David and Elmer the Song Birds represent Mount Dora. Refreshments will be served.
The King's Daughters met at Mrs. J. M. Turner’s home with Mrs. Turner and Mrs. W. A. Vincent as hostesses. They reported cases being cared for and discussed financing tonsillectomies for several school children. A final report covered the sale of the group’s house at Sylvan Shores. Next meeting June 14 with place to be announced.
Mrs S S Sadler Jr and Miss Finnthasen host a surprise lingerie shower Monday evening at the Sadler home for Miss Flora Morley. Guests include Miss Ora Morley Miss Virginia Jepson Miss Ruth Beerbower Mrs Millard Reid Mrs Cecil Parker Mrs Alfred Rehbauh Jr Mrs Henry Land and Mrs Reggie Parker.
Miss Mary Joyce Moorhead and Miss Carolyn Kennedy hosted a miscellaneous afternoon shower at Miss Kennedy’s home honoring the bride Mrs. S. S. Sadler Jr. The event featured novelty games and towel hemming with David Simpson Jr. winning best hemmer. Numerous guests from Mount Dora and Tavares attended.
Miss Shirley Caroline Shonenberger of Mount Dora and Mr Frank Stewart Roberts of Tangerine and Lake City Florida were quietly married Wednesday July 12 at the bride’s parents home. Revered Kenneth G Rogers officiated. The couple’s families and the wedding party attended a dinner afterwards.
Mrs. Roberts, secretary of Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce, is active in local clubs and church work. Mr. Roberts, oldest son of the late Mr. and Mrs. J. Frank Stewart Sr., is a Macon native who studied at Lanier High and the University of Florida and works at Blanche Hotel in Lake City. The couple, popular with Mount Dora’s younger set, plan a brief honeymoon before settling in Lake City.
A lengthy list of local residents and visitors heads to summer locales including Maine Vermont New Jersey and Florida. Names include Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bell Mrs. M. M. Rogers Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nutt Dr. Heber D. Ketcham and Prof. Rosemary Ketcham among others. Several couples travel for summers, visits to relatives, and family reunions. A hospital update notes Miss Lois Rhodes recovering from emergency surgery and Mrs. LaMar M. Silver recovering from a major operation.
George Beni Arnold travels north on a business trip and will visit the New York World's Fair while learning the orange business. Mr and Mrs D H Utter depart for Philadelphia to spend two or three months in Sayre Pennsylvania and other northern spots. Mrs Gerald Richardson has returned home from a Sanford hospital and rests at Mount Dora Hospital where she serves as superintendent. Mr and Mrs Geo H Peabody and daughter Eleanor Peabody leave for their summer home in Troy New Hampshire after a Jacksonville steamer ride.
Miss Ruth Loveless and Miss Mary Agnes Harding are among the 973 students at the first summer session of Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee. The piece notes broad Florida representation and several family travel updates including Mrs. Paul Johnson and Patricia heading to Mt. Pleasant Tennessee for a month with Mr. Johnson to join later, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl Brooman returning from a Pacific coast trip with stops at San Diego St. Joseph and Phoenix with varied temperatures.
Dr and Mrs Gerald A Richardson thank friends for cards and flowers sent to Mrs Richardson in Sanford Hospital after a serious operation. She is now a patient at Mount Dora Hospital for the next three or four weeks.
Mrs. Charlotte Biersmith Lester of Grand Island widow of Col. C E Lester a top Lake County military officer died in a hospital in Eustis after a brief illness. Survivors include Col Lester four children two daughters Charlotte Major and Mary and Paul of Hampton Va four sisters and five brothers. Funeral services set for Thursday at 10 AM at St Marys Catholic Church Eustis with interment in Eustis Cemetery. Col Lester formerly led the Lake County Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. H. M. Beardall, chairman of the Orlando Utilities Commission, praises Lake County’s attractions and resources in Orlando newspapers. He notes on a North trip he met only one person who had heard of Orlando, but many knew about Lake County.
Four Girls In White and the companion feature They Made Her A Spy play at the Princess Theatre this Saturday and Sunday. Norma Page played by Florence Rice schemes for money and status but redeems herself to become a heroine alongside Dr. Stephen Melford as the plot twists through nursing drama and a life risk.
Frances Drake appears in a romantic comedy at the State Theatre Eustis Sunday and Monday. Claudette Colbert and James Stewart lead in a zany plot where a private detective and a poetess team up to solve a millionaire playboy murder.
The Young Democrats of Lake County stage a dance next Wednesday night July 19 at 9 30 p m at the Lake County Country Club Eustis featuring Red's Ragsters a 15 piece band from Mount Dora and Eustis. The event marks the end of a membership drive to send Florida delegates to the 1940 National Convention. Public invited with a reduced rate for members.
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