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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1926
Page
5
The Howey donated bus will transport twenty top Lake County Home Demonstration Club Girls to the State College for Women in Tallahassee for a week of instruction and activities. Named participants include Roberta Shepherd of Montverde and Mary LaFue of Clermont among others.
The notice outlines topics for a community program including gardening, food conservation, poultry, home improvement, club work, clothing, games and swimming. It signals a broad agenda aimed at practical household and neighborhood skills.
Twenty days in field work and sixty four farms visited mark a busy period for the county club. Graduations saw 22 girls earn certificates as canning and home improvement efforts expand with more fruit and vegetable canning than ever before.
Auto thefts in Massachusetts increased despite prevention efforts. Last year 19,790 motor vehicles were reported stolen to the used car section, up from 9,500 in 1924.
Professor Justine H. Bacon of Kalamazoo Michigan won a damage award of 1755 from an owner of an automobile that ran away after being parked and struck him on a street corner. A Tampa flour milling concern seeks a site in Tampa for exporting plant.
The report outlines Pennsylvania highway cement use per mile for Class B roads at 3480 barrels of cement 1081 cubic yards of sand and 1547 cubic yards of stone. It notes pavement thickness six inches at center and peaking four feet from edges with 1964 cubic yards of concrete per mile and distinguishes Class A for heavy traffic and Class C for light traffic. Camp Sites for Sesqui Visitors Grounds near Philadelphia will host eight sites to serve motor tourists with capacity for 7000 cars daily and display official camp signs with Liberty Bell design.
Tampa group plans a $100,000 training school and girls home at 851 South Dakota street. Project aims to provide education and shelter through a new facility run by Volunteers of America with community support and local zoning approvals anticipated.
In England, proposal to repeal the 20 mile per hour speed limit credits car owners as the real strike breakers who kept movement of people and goods going when other transport collapsed overnight.
Viscomte de Rohn becomes president of the French Automobile Club. He rode a tricycle at 12 and built one at 15. His wartime service with the airplane corps earned him the Legion of Honor and the Croix de Guerre.
The minister of transport reports total motor vehicle registrations in Great Britain at 1 177 008 excluding tramcars and trade licenses. The mix includes 498 000 cars taxed on horsepower 339 000 cycles 252 000 commercial vehicles and 77 900 motor hackneys.
Voters in Manatee approve a $50,000 bond issue aimed at funding school improvements. The measure seeks to upgrade facilities and expand educational capacity, pending final formal approvals.
Construction crews broke ground on a $500,000 First Christian Church at the corner of Hyde Park and DeLeon streets. The ceremony marked the start of a major local religious landmark.
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