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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1944
Page
5
The Mount Dora Home Demonstration Club held its annual officer election. Claudia Brockett was chosen vice president, DeMuth secretary, Beebe treasurer, and Ray Blanchard council member. The next work day is Wednesday, June 28 at 2:30 with a pot luck supper at 6.
Personal items report numerous locals traveling for visits and vacations. Mr and Mrs Paul Turrentine head to Kansas, Gladys Irene Crane spends time at Daytona Beach, and several others visit relatives in Florida Georgia North Carolina and New York.
The column lists several families and individuals visiting or staying in Florida towns. Notable mentions include Mr. and Mrs. Frank McCarty now of Lockhart, Florida. Mrs. Ernest Green and others at Daytona Beach. J. M. Blaine and daughter Faye visiting Jacksonville relatives. Sgt. Allen Lincoln and wife from Drew Field at Tampa visiting relatives in Orlando area. and Dr. S. C. Colley traveling with family to Binghamton New York with plans for West Point duties in July.
Mr Alfred Rehbaum and Miss Mary Louise Rehbaum along with Lt Irving G Shexinn Jr USMS and Mrs Gladys Merrill of Tampa and host James Drawdy’s daughter sail into training for grocery store management. Caxton Doggett and Mrs Doggett host Jean Doggett and apprentice seaman Thad Doggett visiting from Kossuth Mississippi. Seaman Doggett attends University of Tennessee Medical School as a Navy V-12 student pursuing an MD. Mrs J H Snell heads to Clovis New Mexico for a month with her mother and sister and brother-in-law join them.
California woman plans a short visit before embarkation point is set. Snell is wife of Cpl James Hicks now in India with A P Co. They wed in ?ne Arizona on December 25 1943 and since March she has lived with her mother in law Mrs Zola Snell at 160 Rossiter St.
Mount Dora Public Library Committee reviews Colcorton detailing Abby Clang Hearne who seeks to lift her brother Jared from poverty. After his death she shoulders his widow and unborn child, while vivid Florida settings and strong characters drive a warm, moving story with inevitable fate.
Rural girls will learn to plan prepare and serve nutritious meals under the National 4-H Food Preparation Activity. Meritorious records earn silver medals county winners a Chicago trip and a $200 scholarship for national winners. The program enters its tenth year run by the Extension Service in Chicago.
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