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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1950
Page
3
The Lucas Concrete Building Blocks on North 14th Street Leesburg is presented as a leading modern enterprise. Its reputation for high quality products is noted as contributing to regional progress and community development through sustained hard work and business vision.
Leesburg Furniture Industries and associated outlets like Crane Mount Dora Mather Eustis Ferguson Leesburg Kingsley’s and Boyds advertise as major local suppliers. The piece praises management experience service quality and reasonable prices, noting airport location and extensive community role.
Leesburg Fertilizer Company at 618 East Main Street Leesburg Florida proclaims years of experience in fertilizer sales and fair honest business methods. The firm highlights broad local trade funds and community booster role while emphasizing knowledgeable management and quality products.
Leesburg Florida based Leesburg Lincoln Mercury promotes their complete guarantees with every car and emphasizes motor car economy through service. They highlight used cars with small down payments and easy monthly terms, plus appraisal before trading in.
An advertisement for Jess Dooley and his local air conditioning business in Leesburg Florida highlights modern GE and York equipment and easy terms. It touts prompt courteous service, reasonable prices, and growth, inviting residents to visit the offices at 609 West Main Street to learn about benefits of air conditioning.
Foremost Fertilizer Co. remanufactured and upgraded its Leesburg plant at Thomas Avenue and S A L Tracks with hopper systems and conveyors to boost service and production for central Florida. The firm claims a square deal policy and aims to advertise local prosperity and quality products.
Five young girls lured from states like West Virginia Minnesota Kentucky and South Carolina were rescued in Lake County Florida after police chief Richard Shipes along with Sheriff Willis McCall and Probation Officer Fred Bork uncovered a magazine subscription scam. State's Attorney Jesse W Hunter and County Judge W Troy Hall ruled Florida statute 450.01 violated by using under 18s to solicit subscriptions. Supervisor G Vassey was fined and ordered to repay the girls nearly 500 for travel home and meals while being fined for improper tags with a reminder in Lake County bearing the number 12.
Watermelon growers from Lake County will gather at Leesburg City Hall Friday at 8 p.m. to discuss the federal marketing agreement. The Florida Farm Bureau organized the meeting and issues a public notice.
The Frank Taylor Memorial lawn bowling event at Izabeth Evans Park celebrated the new Mt Dora Lawn Bowling clubroom with 175 bowlers attending a February frolic. Notables included Mrs Mable Swift as chair, Dr Arthur Pratt as MC, and Dr Pratt awarding Mrs Swift the degree of A.M. in a humorous climax. The Daytona Beach club visited for an inter club tournament and the memory of Frank Taylor, who funded the addition and died last summer in Hudson Massachusetts.
In the Central Florida Exposition Tina Larsen of Mount Dora stayed at the wrong booth yet won major blue ribbons. The 12 year old placed first in a wire basket display and took second in biscuits while her mother Harold Larsen earned three blue ribbons and three red ribbons across foods contests.
In East Town church life remains strong with Bethel F M and St John P B and Mt Olive A M E cited for stable worship. Reverends McNair Russell Davies and Choine lead the preaching though some parishioners resist. A big annual rally at St Mary M B Church and events with Rev Sam Young Rev Bagley are announced as the community faces tax deadlines and baptism plans.
Norman Tuckett Jr who earned a civil engineering degree from the University of Florida last month begins duties as sanitary engineer with the Broward County Health Department in Fort Lauderdale.
Mount Dora rites honored Archie E Hurlburt 78 a longtime friend of Calvin Coolidge who helped bring the president to Florida for a winter. Burial was in Forest cemetery Mount Dora. He left a widow Alice a son Marshall and a brother Victor. Red Cross Home Service aided 1 315100 veterans and dependents in the year ending June 30 1949 with 3 431000 in financial assistance.
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