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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1930
Page
3
Department of Commerce presents Florida financial statistics for the year ending June 30 1928. Includes per capita operation costs, interest, and outlays totaling 29 523 960 with 420 500 internal payments. Revenue 26 616 939 driven by property taxes and licenses. Everglades debt offset by sink fund assets.
Local residents spent time with relatives and neighbors during weekend travels. Notables include Tavares W Kennedy visiting Daytona relatives, J O Farmer and family returning from St Peters, and Mary Anne Duncan joining a family visit. Several others returned from trips to Georgia, Alabama, and North Carolina.
The piece reviews a new America published work claiming Woodrow Wilson speaks from the beyond via medium Mrs. C. A. Dawson Scott. It downplays ghostly spiritualism, praising Wilsonian humanitarianism and world peace while urging constructive purpose and steadfast resolve.
New Smyrna City purchased a half acre island for future development. Palmetto plans a beautification program along the approach to the bridge on the Manatee River side, with work resumed.
Bartow Perch Lake Groves Corporation has been granted papers of incorporation to engage in the business of citrus fruits.
The letter from an Arkansas farmer praises adopting new crops and methods beyond old farming traditions. He cites Giant Beggarweed St Lucie grass Angleton grass Monantha vetch and trials with carpet grass subterranean clover centipede grass Ladino white clover. He plans to report next fall on Crotalaria results.
An invasive cicada species has been found damaging Asparagus plumosus ferns on Florida's East Coast. Entomologist J. R. Watson notes cicadas spend years underground before maturing and warns growers to inspect roots if ferns die in patches. Dr. J. W. Wilson is researching control methods.
The Mount Dora area dances attend a midsummer script dance at Silver Lake country club Leesburg Monday evening July 28. Beginning at 9 30 Puss Hartman and his Southern Harmony Boys will provide a delightful program of dance music. The orchestra grows more popular with every engagement in this section.
The State Dairy men's Association meets August 14 at the College of Agriculture as part of Farmers Week. The morning session includes reports and officer elections with J. P. Love and Ralph W. Scott retired leaders. L. R. Neel discusses dairying in southern agriculture, plus afternoon talks on dairy experiments disease control and farm milk marketing.
Entomologist Prof. J. R. Watson warns Florida growers that another army worm brood may attack lawns meadows and crops. Eggs hatch by late July with young worms feeding by early August. Parasites may reduce impact but observers should monitor meadow grasses cotton corn peanuts and sweet potatoes and apply lead or calcium arsenate dust or Paris green bran baits if reappearance occurs.
An advertisement touts Rexall Orderlie as immediate relief for constipation claiming a rapid natural bowel movement without habit or increased dose. It urges nightly chewing for next day relief and sells 24 tablets for 25 cents at Rexall Drug Store Mount Dora Pharmacy. Then a guardianship notice in Mount Dora Florida seeks authority to sell real estate of minors Elizabeth Fenn Martha Fenn and Dorothy Fenn with hearing set August 12 1930 in Lake County Court House Tavares Florida.
A. Lee French, purchaser of Tax Certificate No. 222 dated July 4, 1927, has filed an application for tax deed under Florida law. The notice records the tax certificate filing and action proceeding to obtain the deed.
Court clerk notice issued by Georg E. J. Dykes of the Circuit Court in Lake County Florida. By: 30, LES, D6, 30-51.
Court orders construction service for S. M. Thompson foreclosure action on Lake County real estate. Defendants John W Sawyer Atlanta Sawyer Isabella Taussig as trustee and individually must answer by August 4 1930 at Tavares courthouse. Publication set in Mount Dora Topic weekly for four weeks.
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