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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1937
Page
5
Social CARE Ge copies teady most of monthly meeting of the deacons Monday night at Dr Latham's home. Refreshments served. Present were Rev Underwood D Heppingstall church clerk Deacons Blair Chapman Brock and Latham.
The June meeting at Mrs Turner's home had good attendance. The Poppy chairman reported 50.20 raised on Poppy Day. Thanks were given to all helpers and window decorators in the Simpson Building. It was voted to discontinue summer meetings. next gathering in September.
Mrs Jimmie Redd plans a weekend trip for rest in Daytona Beach. Mr and Mrs Frank R Parker left Friday for their summer home in Salem. Otis Pritcher and baby of Zephyrs visit parents Mrs J M Thompson. Mr J G LaDue returns after four months away with the State Road Department.
Local residents travel for the season with visits to Patchogue Long Island Vermont Windham Ohio and Cleveland Ohio. Families like the Milners Morleys Voorhees and Roseboroughs plan summer stays and professional duties resume in September.
Mr and Mrs W Mee and Miss Dorothy Thompson will remain in South Heights Pennsylvania after an extended stay in their winter home on Grandview street. Tom D Hurlburt returns from Bolles School Jacksonville to spend the nation with his parents Mr and Mrs G B Hurlburt.
Representative Thomas H. Cooley and family return from Tallahassee after the sixty day legislative session. Edward Brooks returns from a Florida college year and heads to Roxboro North Carolina for summer work. Mrs. T. E. Hackett and daughter Janet depart for Lansing Michigan with Janet planning a business course while Mrs. Hackett returns to Florida in fall.
Mrs. Claude Carter of Fort Myers visits Mount Dora relatives and friends for a few days. She brings her mother in law Mrs. W. A. Carter who has been visiting her son and wife in Fort Myers for several weeks.
Mr. Paul Conrad pursues a Doctor's degree at the University of Iowa while teaching half time in summer school and serving as a half time chemistry instructor for the next college year. Several Stetson University students at DeLand including Peggy Champ Jane Mc Carty Jean Smith Mary Elizabeth Simpson Martha Fenn and Alfred Rehbaum Jr returned home last week with Mc Carty resuming a summer course in DeLand.
Mrs. Florence G Hanscom returned last week from a two week visit with friends in Melbourne Florida her home for years when the late Dr Hanscom was pastor of the Congregational church and Mrs Hanscom served as musical director.
Rev Clovis Brantley and Mrs Davis and Javens Mr and Mrs Latham attended the Meade Brothers meeting at the Baptist church in Bushnell. The church is filled nightly with strong interest. John Duncan of Summerfield visited Mount Dora with Robert Quixley and Lem Downs, classmates at the University of Florida.
Wesley Fly graduates from University of Gainesville this week. Margaret Stewart arrives from Fernandina to spend summer with her parents in Zellwood. Robert Letsinger visits grandparents at Zellwood Inn in St Petersburg. Several families travel to Hendersonville and Michigan for the season. Zellwood grammar school holds an agricultural dinner with students and invited guests. Graduation exercises were held at the grammar school Friday.
Instructions describe cooking mangos in water, adding sugar, and serving with meat or as a dessert. Includes canned mango sauce, hot water bath canning for 15 minutes, and a mango sherbet recipe with lemon juice, sugar, water, egg white, and milk. The method notes possible curdling does not affect final product.
Apopka hosts Baccalaureate Services Sunday night and graduation on Monday for local high school graduates. Zellwood pupils list names of graduates and recent school events. Picnics and fundraisers occur at Rock Springs with Wesley Fellowship and Women’s Missionary Society. School performances include recitals and operettas by grades six to eight. County tests note Ellen Sorlinga top sixth seventh eighth score and Agnes Henderson best year gain. Audrey Monk highest English score.
The Tangerine P T A held its annual school year picnic at Springs on Friday with trustees teachers and about twenty parents and friends in attendance. Hosts Mrs F O Brando and Mrs C W Connor organized the first social afternoon and future plans were discussed. The next event will be hosted by Mrs Wile and Mrs Bloodgood on June 21st.
Mangoes appear in north Florida markets signaling the fruit season. In south Florida the green or half-ripe fruit is prized for sauce and pie. Varieties yield flesh from light yellow to orange, juicy and fiber free, with flavors blending peach pineapple coconut banana and strawberry.
County 4H girls from Clermont Leesburg Eustis Mount Dora and others travel to Tallahassee for a church Sunday school visit Vesper service and campus activities including classes social events a Sunken Garden reception moving pictures and swimming meet Scholarships funded by County Commissioners Kiwanis clubs and other local groups supported the trip and individual donors backed Montverde.
Lake County sends a group of 4 H Club boys to the University of Florida Short Course in Gainesville this week under Assistant County Agent R E Norris. The sixteen boys from Clermont Eustis Leesburg Mohawk Mount Dora Paisley Tavares Umatilla include Dan Westbrook Milton Mingonet Harold Matthews Jimmie Rutherford Fred Berry Billy Lorenz Milton Teasley Brugs Kennedy Maurice Patrick James Powell Joe N Busby Claxton Parker Brads Collins Tom Carroll.
June 14, 1937 marks the 160th anniversary of the American Flag adopted in 1777 by the Continental Congress. The American Flag Day Association will open its celebration with a patriotic religious program at Washington Memorial chapel Valley Forge June 13 at 2 p.m. Capt Theodore Gottlieb of Newark NJ and Rev Dr Weaver K Eubank of Philadelphia will speak on Flag Day Calls for Americanism and Religion of Old Glory.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce voted yes on Referendum 71 of the U S Chamber. The committee reviewing the Interstate Commerce Act long and short haul clause reported favorably. 7 yes 2 no and 2 unrecorded.
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