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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1930
Page
2
The Community Club House hosted a windy rainy evening with seven tables of players. Prizes of Congress cards went to the winners. August party hosts were announced as Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Quixley, and Mrs. White.
Mrs R N White announces a porch party at her summer home Kramer house corner of Eighth and Helen on Wednesday afternoon July 23. Eastern Star members and in city members welcome. Activities include cards sewing visiting. small silver offering optional for Masonic home. Guests at three oclock. First of three porch parties aiding Ladies Aid and Woman's Club projects.
Personal items note Miss Ollie Craft visiting Jacksonville for a month with friend Miss Jean Hill. Parker and son Ivan join a family outing to Daytona Beach. L R Heim and son Charles plan to Danbury, return to Mount Dora by October 1. A J Miles leave on a motor trip to Tampa and Clearwater. Roy Christopher returns from Camp Wee-Wah with Scouts. Mrs R N White and others vacation at Daytona Beach. John Bakes, caretaker at Miss Davenport's estate, recovered from mastoiditis surgery in Sanford. Daytona Beach trips continue.
The Mount Dora area attracts retirees and families for extended beach stays with Rev. and Mrs. E. E. Truskett and several guests plus youths Buster Williams and Oliver Prey making hitchhiking trips to Chimney Rock and Buffalo. A March car wreck near Lake Ola injured Howard Thompson, treated locally, then returned home. Clayton Richardson and family plan a northern tour, visiting New Jersey and Canada before returning for Geraldine to begin school in the fall.
Gainesville program for Farm Week at the College of Agriculture runs August 11 to 15 with daily main topics. Monday includes tours of Experiment Station barns and field plots. Tuesday covers beef cattle. Wednesday focuses on profitable farming, sheep and goats. Thursday splits into farm crops and dairy with a dairy program. Friday features hog raising and fattening topics and visits to plots and pastures.
State Senator W. J. Singletary is listed as resting easy in a Tallahassee hospital after gunshot wounds that may cost him sight. His attorney B. K. Roberts says a July 23 preliminary hearing date is set for Singletary, his son C. W. Singletary, E. B. and Q. D. Sauls, on charges of assault with intent to murder in Crawfords ville.
The mayor announces the bottling plant has been reopened and is now operating at full capacity. Officials say this boosts local employment and secures supply for regional distributors.
Umatilla area notes report rapid progress on the new packing house with foundation piers formed framing lumber arriving and extra workers on site. Community items include scouts camp at Salt Springs, girls sewing club outing to Rock Springs, picnics at Rock Springs, and local church activities with Rev. Carleton delivering his first sermon.
Wounds led to a funeral service for Ted Goolsby held after noon at McDonald Pe Rev T Wright Carleton and J Carey Hand conducted it. Other obituaries and attendances from Lake Jean Winter Park Mount Dora are noted. A separate auto wreck near Zellwood Colhies injured Alford White. he escaped serious injuries and was treated in Orlando Hospital.
North Carolina launches a live at home campaign to spur local production of commodities for home use. A Southern economists conference in Atlanta estimated the program could add 30 to 50 million dollars in the year’s foodstuffs value for the state, urging farmers to grow more for themselves and nearby communities.
The first carload of broilers is set to depart Bradenton, Florida, heading to regional markets. The shipment marks a milestone in local poultry production and trade as producers expand distribution from the area.
Otilia Stromberger and co plaintiffs publish order of publication in the name of the state against Harold Strand and others to foreclose a mortgage on portions of Section 24 in Lake County Florida. The notice cites action dated July 2, 1930, recorded in Mount Dora with clerk J Dykes signature and Grace Hawthorne deputy.
Complainant L R Heim and Anna Elizabeth Heim sue David R Russell in Lake County Florida chancellery. An order for constructive service requires Russell to appear by August 4 1930 after publication in the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit. Witness dated July 3 1930.
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