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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1947
Page
5
Mrs Harris urges Christian Methodist members to back child welfare groups and improved recreation programs. She notes 1.5 million nonattending grammar school age children and says state aid of 18 dollars per month per family is inadequate. Foster home openings require interviews at Leesburg welfare office.
Reports from Beverly to London offer updates on skittles and lawn bowling. Notes cover players like Walt Bullard, Jim Owell, Alec Kerr, Frank Bridgman, and John Stoner, plus club activity in Boston and New York with arrivals from Detroit and Nova Scotia.
Mrs Graves travels from Villa Dora to Pine Orchard awaiting joining her husband Carl Graves. She drives the length of the journey alone as part of the Sheldon House summer routine in Conn.
Social notes report Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Vincent planning to renew studies at Stetson University in DeLand with a Monday departure from Mount Dora. Numerous residents travel north for summer visits, camps open, and local members attend meetings and events at Mount Dora institutions.
Mrs Dooley wife of the late Mount Dora postmaster declares Mount Dora remains home. She plans a visit to Leesburg to see her son Jesse then rest at a Waynesville North Carolina summer home. The Sylvan Shores property set for sale as the couple seek a new site nearby.
Service clubs await a delayed report by A C consultant for the Florida Council for the Blind on the Mount Dora school lighting. The study shows lighting below standards set by the medical association, at less than one sixth of the amount students should have.
More than 1500 members of the Methodist church attended a picnic at Soran on Wednesday, with swimming as the main activity. Children and adults joined under Rollin Javens supervision, with transport organized by a church committee and lunch prepared by the church women.
Mr and Mrs Ralph Woodworth of Tangerine host Mrs Doty of South Weymouth mother of Mrs Woodworth and Mrs Thomas J Woodworth of Nova Scotia visiting them. On June 20 the Woodworths and their son Glenn with Mrs Doty will travel to South Weymouth for the summer and may visit Nova Scotia for a few days with Woodworths mother.
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