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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1928
Page
3
Land leasing indicates Leesburg district planting of 14000 to 15000 acres of watermelons for 1929, up from 12000 acres this year. The article also notes local civic activity, utility upgrades, and community projects including a Kiwanis pool, church leadership changes, and state fiscal concerns.
The senate inquiry into federal patronage distribution in the south is likely to move to Florida in coming weeks. The Manatee County Growers Association based in Bradenton closed its 1927 28 shipping season with a record 1460.
Florida 1927 28 citrus crop value not including grapefruit canned or fruit moved by truck or consumed in state stands at 51 352 930 per unofficial Rhodes estimate. St Petersburg commission approves street paving contracts totaling 230 495 and widens Central avenue from 68th Street to Park Street. Commission also cancels about 200 000 in outstanding paving contracts after informal contractor meeting.
The state plant board lifted the potato quarantine for Hillsborough Pinellas and Manatee counties boosting sweet potato raising and marketing. State Game Warden Henry Carlile warns high summer water in Brevard County endangers game birds for the winter hunt, with quail nests destroyed and chicks killed in floods.
Lake Land Co transfers Lot 28 in Sentinel at Eustis to G A Baxter. Rebecca Crow transfers Lot 4 Block B in Trowell’s Add to Umatilla to Oregon Smith. Eliza Robinson transfers Lots 1 and 2 in Trowell’s Add to Umatilla to S B Trowell. S B Fussell transfers to B W Wiley.
A series of real estate deeds recorded across Lake County and Leesburg areas shows multiple transfers. B W Wiley and wife sell Lots 1 and 2 in Trowell s Add to Umatilla to Oregon O Smith. W J Trowell and wife sell Lot 3 in Block B to Oregon O Smith. Mount Plymouth Corp deeds several tracts in Mount Plymouth and nearby parcels to various buyers including Eliza P Swazey and Gustav Siese Jr. and to E W S Pickett. Other transfers include Lake County Groves Corp to Mount Plymouth Corp in the SE part of Section 30-19-28. W M Kennedy and wife to W J Babb. Postal Colony Co to Arthur V Mayhew Tract 51 Sec 24-23-25. Arthur Willson to First Church of Christ of Eustis Lot 20 in Oakdale Park. Edith I Collins and Ernest F Hanson exchange several lots in Leesburg Realty and Idlewild tracts. Additional deeds include A C Willingham to H S Richardson, N% S% S% of NE% in 13-20-25. W R Hood to E W Fain and wife, Lot 1 and N% of Lot 2 in Palmera Subdivision. W J Willingham to H S Richardson for S% of N% SW% of NE% in 13-20-25.
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