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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1952
Page
5
A crowded social page details multiple Mount Dora residents and guests traveling by train and car from Fort Lauderdale to New York, Washington, D. C., and beyond. It notes arrivals and departures, family visits, and gatherings, including officers and relatives visiting from California, Illinois, and Michigan, with plans to reunite at summer homes and events along the way.
Ted and Dorothy Pfarrer describe two and a half years in England as valuable yet restrictive and class conscious. They contrast British tests for secondary education, export limits, car shortages, and socialized medicine with American life, praising Americans and remaining hopeful about future posting in Florida. They traveled with their baby Mark, born in London, and stayed with Dorothy's parents in Sorrento-Florida.
Mrs. W. A. Conrad of Robie Id has hosted M/Sgt. A. C. Kellogg his wife and children Dickey Linda and Bobby for two weeks. The family recently moved from Durham North Carolina where the sergeant taught ROTC at Duke University and now proceed to California to await overseas duty orders.
The Business and Professional Women's club met last week to set the next year’s calendar, aiming for renewed civic efforts and growth in membership. Anne Me was welcomed as a new member at the meeting.
A practical guide to easy summer picnics with planning tips. Stock a ready picnic basket with colorful plates and napkins, prepare simple desserts in cups or pans, and make lemonade from concentrate. Recipes include QUICK PRALINE CAKE and oven baked fried chicken, both adaptable for mobile outdoor meals.
Pastor James H Sutley returns to the pulpit at Around The Chisebins Baptist for morning service on Needless Care and evening topic Strange Things. Rev Robert M Blackburn preaches at First Methodist in the same day with The Power of Persuasion and Defeating Our Disappointments as evening topic.
The IceHouse Players will host the Central Florida Federation of Live Theatres bi monthly meeting at 2 30 p m Sunday at the Charles Street Theatre. Members and alternates from Orlando Leesburg DeLand Winter Haven Daytona Beach Ocala Mount Dora will attend. President Walter J Patton aims for 1000 active junior and sustaining members and urges renewal as new membership cards are prepared.
Tangerine reports Mrs J O Batton and sister Alto Gary have returned from a three week vacation in Mississippi. Bobby Suber of Crestview spends his vacation with Mrs H H Chambel. Jimmie Beims of Mount Dora was guest of Ward Estey Jr. George Kennedy and family visited Oe Beach for several days last week.
Dorans hospitalized this week include Clarence Burkhalter at Waterman Memorial hospital in Eustis and Mrs. Robert Van Zant at Durham Young hospital in Leesburg. Cecil Bowie at Florida Sanitarium in Orlando also remained hospitalized. he came home Tuesday.
A/30 Anne Johnson of the WAF arrived home for a 20 day furlough with her parents Mr and Mrs K H Hill at Lake Beauclaire. She will report back to Westover field Westover Massachusetts.
The Mount Dora Art League Creative Writers Group will discuss A Short Story next Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Public Library rooms. Mrs C H Estey of Tangerine will lead the session.
Flor ida State university business school announces Helen Wages, a Community scholar from Mount Dora, made the Dean's list in the closing semester. A quote from Queen Juliana appears in the text urging mankind to cast off tyranny and prejudice.
Miss Ann Sullivan of Mount Dora served as a page at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago while her grandparents Dan and Mrs Sullivan residents at 313 Baker St. She plans to study law at Indiana University next fall and appeared in papers via AP for the Republican convention as well. The Sullivans now reside in Leesburg Indiana.
A listing of local church services in Mount Dora with names of pastors and weekly schedules. These include Mount Dora Baptist Church on Sixth and Tremain, Methodist Church on Fifth Avenue, Church of God on East Liberty, and Church of Christ on Fifth Avenue with service times for Bible School Sunday Worship and midweek sessions.
Eustis first church of Christ Scientist at corner Lemon and Grove holds Sunday services and Sunday School at 11 a.m. A Wednesday evening service occurs at 8 p.m.
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