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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1939
Page
5
Mount Dora Chapter No. 103 Eastern Star holds its closing meeting on Thursday June 22 at 8pm with a planned program and refreshments. The Past Chiefs Club hosts a box social Monday June 26 at 8pm at the Community Building offering entertainment and bidding on wrapped lunch boxes.
A Methodist church Epworth League delegation from Mount Dora including Joanne French Ida Hiley Pomona Davidson and Jean Shipes motored to Daytona Beach to attend the State Epworth League Institute this week with other delegates from across the state.
Marion Whaley hosted a Friday bridge luncheon at Geo. B. Ramsdell’s East Fifth avenue home. Lunch at 1 30 followed by bridge. Mary Joyce Moorhead won high, David S. Simpson Jr. was second, Carolyn Kennedy third, Francys Sadler consolation. Guests included Mrs Evans H and others from Mount Dora and Winter Garden, with Rev Kenneth G Rogers and party awaiting final sessions.
Miss Mary Elizabeth Simpson and Mrs Cecil Parker hosted a Tuesday evening tribute at Miss Simpson's Sylvan Shores home for Flora Morley. Guests played bridge and Chinese checkers after presenting Fostoria ware gifts. Carolyn Kennedy won high score with Peggy Champ as consolation.
Miss Virginia Beerbower of Winter Park and Mr Samuel Slocum Sadler Jr were quietly married Saturday at 7 pm in St Thomas Episcopal rectory Eustis Dr D T Johnson officiated Only immediate families attended The bride wore a white ensemble with gardenia and rose corsage Attendants included Miss Dorothy Beerbower maid of honor Best man was Mr Edgar Brueton Decorations featured calla lilies white dahlias White asters and gardenias joined the small wedding supper hosted by Mrs S S Sadler at Lake Ola
Mrs Sadler is the daughter of the late Harold Beerbower and Mrs Beerbower of Winter Park and granddaughter of Mrs J E Beerbower of Tangerine. Mr Sadler is the older son of the late S S Sadler and Mrs Sadler of Tangerine. He is a Mount Dora High School and University of Florida alumnus working at Builders Supply Company in Mount Dora. The couple plan to reside in Tangerine.
Flag Week began June 8 with a gathering at the Giles hunting lodge near Altoona. Daughters of the American Revolution members and guests enjoyed a meal, heard a flag history talk by J Edwin Baker of the Home for Crippled Children, and sang America. The week featured union meetings with the W C T U, school flag programs, and a Florida D A R motto of A Flag in Every School Room.
Bob Hope and Shirley Ross reunite for Paramount's swing comedy Some Like It Hot at the Princess Theatre this Sunday and Monday with Gene Krupa and his orchestra. Also showing the added feature The Girl and the Gambler starring Leo Carillo and Steffi Dunn this Saturday and Sunday.
Personal Miss Mary entries list Louise Rehbaum visiting Birmingham. Various locals and visitors travel between Indian Rocks Miami Beach and Orlando. Mentions include medical visits, hospital recoveries, house guests and trips to Akron Evansville New Smyrna and Wisconsin summer homes. several families and acquaintances appear in brief social items.
Rev. Fred W. Overhiser and Mrs. Carrie Overhiser marked fifty years of marriage in Mount Dora with a community gathering at the Community Building. A program by the Friendship Circle of Eustis featured hymns, solos, a junior orchestra, comic sketches, and a mock ceremony using the bride’s original wedding gown. The couple received gifts and a substantial church donation followed by refreshments.
Adventure romance from the Andes screens at State Theatre Eustis Sunday and Monday. Howard Hawks directs Cary Grant Jean Arthur with a supporting cast led by Richard Barthelmess Rita Hayworth and Noah Beery Jr. Also featuring March of Time War Peace and Propaganda. Opening time 2:00 P M.
Local residents and guests are noted on weekend travels and visits. Dr and Mrs H T Fenn and daughters Martha and June returned from a southern motor tour. Jos R Schoeninger of Evans ton Ill visits North Tremain street. Edna Dennis Betty West Nancy Stuart and Sarah Elizabeth McCoy take a motor trip to South Florida ending in Key West. Marietta R Dyson tours Shenandoah Valley en route to Washington DC and stops at New Market to see Endless Caverns. Howard Simpson heads to Coldwater Kansas to visit fianc e Russell McKinney. Frank Husman of Cincinnati Ohio visits W H Reed in North Donnelly avenue. Reed plans Ohio trip after. Leila Killian vacations at Sylvan Shores with C A Killian. Virginia Killian leaves for Birchcliffe Camp Grand Isle VT as a two month counselor with Mrs Conklin and daughters.
Flossy and Dr. Marian Conklin were weekend guests at the Killian home. She plans a visit to the New York World’s Fair before traveling on to Vermont.
Mr and Mrs Ray Blanchard with daughters Mrs Walter F Kidd and Miss Phyllis Blanchard and son David left last week for the New England States. Mrs Kidd will join her husband at Georgetown Massachusetts. The rest of the family will visit Mrs Blanchard s relatives there then go to Bangor Maine to visit Mr Blanchard s mother and other relatives.
Mr. G. F. Weeks and Mr. Clayton Tremain left Sunday for Weeks’ summer home at Rockville Center New York arriving Monday evening. Tremain will spend part of his two weeks vacation there and will visit the town.
Mrs Tremain and her young daughter visit her mother Mrs Hopcraft in Orlando during Mr Tremain's absence at the World’s Fair.
The note expresses gratitude to friends and neighbors for help and sympathy during Mrs. Ferson’s long illness and thanks them for the beautiful flowers sent at the end.
Mount Dora Baseball team leads with Winter Park in a joint first place tie this season. The note urges fans to attend home games and travel with the team for away games to support them in the pennant pursuit.
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