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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1939
Page
8
In the Fifth Judicial Circuit Lake County Florida a chancery case filed by Town of Mount Dora against lands with delinquent taxes and or special assessments. The defendant is described as the lands bearing delinquent charges in Lake County Florida.
The Town of Mount Dora Florida petitions in court to foreclose delinquent tax liens and assessments across blocks and lots within the Official Plat of Mount Dora. The filing lists taxes and assessments owed on numerous parcels in sections 29 and 20, with varied amounts and both taxes and special assessments.
A long, OCR heavy record lists parcel numbers, blocks, lots, plats and associated taxes for Mount Dora areas including Waller Park Sub Dora Heights Sub Riley's Sub Dora Heights and Sylvan Shores. It details lots, blocks, sections, tax amounts and special assessments across multiple plats and locations.
A dense tax roll for Mount Dora parcels detailing Lot and Block designations across Sylvan Shores Marley's Sub Alta Vista and Lake Franklin areas. It lists Lot 19 Block 3 with tax 54.84 and numerous other lots, blocks, and sections with varying taxes and special assessments, alongside references to official plats and subdivision names.
A lengthy listing details numerous lots, blocks, and plats in Mount Dora including Lake Franklin Park Unit No. 2 Oakwood Sub Sadler's Sub Pine Summit Sub Belmont Sub and Palma Ceia with taxes and assorted special assessments. It references Sec 32 Tp 19 S R 27 and related parcels with varied tax amounts and in some cases special assessments.
State Theatre in Eustis offers St Louis Blues a romantic showboat tale with Miss Lamour and Nolan. The plot blends modern techs and contract woes as a celebrity seeks real love aboard a touring boat while a tyrannical manager tries to keep her bound to his contract.
The Princess Theatre screens two March of Time features next week. Young America contrasts American youth movement with dictatorial youth, highlighting scouts learning democracy and peace. Mexico's New Crisis portrays Cardenas reforms, farm expropriations, oil seizures, and Mexico's economic strain amid international boycotts.
The owner receives a one million dollar bid for the old model titled Man of War. The offer appears generous given the vintage status of the item.
The notice outlines parcels owned by Martha Chambon with described boundaries and tax amounts of 95.00 and special assessments 240.18 plus penalties and costs. It warns the defendants to appear by March 6, 1939 to defend the bill of complaint or risk the court selling the parcels for nonpayment and liens. The document is signed by Clerk GRO. J Dykes with Grace H. Cox as deputy.
Beachcomber starring Charles Laughton and Elsa Lanchester plays at the Princess Theatre Friday and Saturday. The story follows Ginger Ted on a Dutch Malay island with Tyrone Guthrie and Robert Newton in supporting roles.
Hollywood reports Joan Bennett, long a blonde icon, appears with dark hair in Trade Winds co starring Fredric March. The plot follows a murder fugitive fleeing to Hawaii and beyond as March tracks her through China Indo-China Ceylon the Straits Settlements India and the Laccadive Islands.
The Lake County week ending February 24 saw temperatures from a high of 79 to a low of 33 degrees. Readings were taken at the Court House by the Lake County Agricultural Agent and the Lake County Chamber of Commerce. The coldest point noted was 33 degrees at 9.
The article notes a rapid rise from 34 at 1:30 a.m. Friday February 24 to 74 by noon the same day. Daily readings in the county are kept by an automatic device and each Friday afternoon a weekly chart is removed for a permanent record of the preceding week.
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