City Considers 5000 Dollar Lakeside Pool Improve Plan
Mount Dora weighs turning Lakeside Inn pool into a municipal facility with a 10 year rent free lease. The city would invest 5000 dollars to upgrade dressing rooms showers toilets septic and a 2500 dollar chlorinating system. Annual costs would be about 500 dollars for water and supervision. City officials cite Leesburg success with school bus trips swimming lessons and junior lifesaving tests to back the plan for summer recreation for children.
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Lakeside Inn
Mount Dora
Health Department
R. C. Bardwell
J. E. Fortner
Council
Bardwell
Childere
Leesburg Pool
Leesburg
Committee Protests Florida Telephone Rate Hearing At Ocala
A Dora business committee led by G. B. Crip Hurlburt will protest a Railroad and Public Utilities Commission hearing on a proposed rate hike for Florida Telephone Corporation. The group demands extended notice to Lake County subscribers to attend, citing service concerns and economic impact. Five district managers were abruptly dismissed or suspended in a related shakeup, with no public explanation.
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Florida Telephone Corporation
Railroad and Public Utilities Commission
Ocala
Dora
G. B. “Crip” Hurlburt
Chamber of Commerce Utilities Committee
J. E. Fortner
George J. White
Chamber
City Art
Tom Cooley
Cooley
Phil Goddard
Eustis Exchange
Hurlburt
Mount Dora
City Garbages Fee Nets Mount Dora $615 in Month
City clerk William Stewart told council that the first month of the garbage collection fee produced 615 dollars, over 78 percent of the 800 dollars billed with light department statements for residential and business garbage and trash collection.
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Mount Dora
William Stewart
Mount Dora Golf Club Greens Fee Seeps Signals
A brief golf item notes Mount Dora Golf Club offers greens fees at $1.50. The unusual price highlights the era's affordable recreation and local club practice.
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Mount Dora Golf Club
Mount Doral Golf Club
Mount Dora Blood Bank Drive Praised by Lions Club
Mary Gwynn of the Central Florida Blood Bank lauds Mount Dora residents for funding a local blood supply. The bank plans a March 23 drive at the Community Building with a goal of 50 donors and advance registrations at the chamber of commerce.
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Mount Dora
Florida
The
Lions Club
Mary Gwynn
Central Florida Blood Bank
National Blood Bank
Texas
Dorans
Gwynn
Chamber of Commerce
Lions
Watermelon Harvest Publication Released in Florida
The Florida Agricultural Extension service has issued a new guide on growing harvesting and loading watermelons. It is available at the courthouse office of County Agent R. E. Norris for interested growers.
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Florida Agricultural Extension Service
R. E. Norris
Gala Day kicks off Mount Dora lawn bowling season
The Mount Dora Lawn Bowling Club held its first Gala Trophy Day on Feb 25 with a noon roast beef dinner for seventy at the Yacht Club dining hall. Club leaders and local officials praised bowling’s value to Mount Dora as a promotional force.
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Mount Dora
George J. White
Chamber of Commerce
Frank Taylor
Clarence McEnzie
Robert C. Thomas
Taylor
McKenzie
Thomas
Mount Dora Lawn Bowling Club
Yacht Club
George Church
George Meinecke
Nalass
Fred Booth
America
W Willie
Celia Claflin
R. W. Horsley Services Held
Death claims 64 year old R. W. Horsley who for 15 years repaired watches for Mount Dora residents. He died Monday at Eustis Waterman Memorial hospital. He leaves two sons Walker of Mount Dora and Walter of Chattanooga, three brothers Sam of Clearwater Henry and John of Alabama. Funeral services were held at the funeral chapel Wednesday.
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R. W. Horsley
Mount Dora
Eustis Waterman Memorial Hospital
Horsley
Walker
Walter
Chattanooga
Tenn
Sam
Clearwater
Henry
John
Alabama
Aa Funeral
Personalities Around Mount Dora Show Young Leader Anne Pike
Anne Pike, president of the Mount Dora Youth Center, is highlighted as a poised youthful figure among teens and elders at a major social event. The piece praises her confidence, femininity, and varied talents from riding to poultry showing, presenting her as a model for American youth and reflecting on the era’s educated, capable generation.
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Anne Pike
Anne
Sela
Donnelly, Sr
Greer Garson
America
You and
Lineage Ties Abroad to Lake Dora and Victoria Pioneers
Anne Pike recounts her roots spanning Victoria now Lake Jem and Lake Dora area. She notes 1869 arrivals of the Simpsons in Central Florida and intermarriage with the Pike family. Her mother Grace Pike traces to the Williamses of Plymouth 1874 and she recalls cattlemen from the Pike line and ranch life near Victoria.
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Victoria
Lake Jem
David Simpsons
Florida
Wilds
Lake Dora
Pikes
Simpson
Anne
Mr. Simpson
Lake Ola
Grace Pike
Williamses
Plymouth
Pike
Aberdeen
Lafayette
Cee
Louis Pike
Wet-Dry Vote Nears 12,000 Ballots in Lake County
Nearly 12,000 expected to vote on the wet-dry issue with Lake County showing a 40 percent rise in registrations led by Leesburg. Mount Dora saw 436 new voters sign in and eight travel to Tavares to sign as polls close at sundown. Pro and anti prohibition groups hold last meetings as the county eyes a local option battle.
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Mount Dora
Lake County
Leesburg
O. M. Simpson
Tavares
W. L. Story
City Hall
Story
United Florida Dry Organization
Orange County
Lake
All Churches
Robert R. Reed
the Drys
First Methodist Church
Fred T. Barnett
Florida Drys
J E Mattocks Founder Of Jem Dies In Orlando
John E. Mattocks 74 founder of Lake Jem died in Orlando after a long illness. He led Mount Dora Masons and helped found Victoria station. Funeral set for 10:30 a.m. Friday at Fairchild Funeral Home with Dora lodge No 238 active. He leaves a widow, a daughter, two sons, and three grandchildren. One son Howard was lost at sea in World War II.
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Mount Dora
Orlando
John E. Mattocks
Lake Jem
Fairchild Funeral Home
Dora Lodge
Mattocks
Florida
Hibriten Lodge
Lenoir
N. C
Mattock
Victoria Station
Acacia Scottish Rite Club
Anna Winslow Mattocks
Newton C. McCullough
Richard
North Carolina
Winslow
Boston
Howard
Dean Johnson
St. Luke’s Espicopel Church
Gainese
Airways Opens New Lake County Service In Florida
Florida Airways inaugurated a Leesburg station linking Lake and Sumter counties with direct flights to New York Chicago and other cities. Five daily flights connect Leesburg to Tallahassee Jacksonville and Tavares with northbound and southbound schedules and faster air mail service to Tallahassee Orlando and Jacksonville. The opening included a flower-dispensing first flight and music from the Leesburg high school band.
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Lake Countia
Jacksonville
Florida Airways
Leesburg
the Airways
Lake
Sumter Counties
New York
Chicago
Tallahassee
Orlando
Tavares
Airways Company
Death Claims Mrs. Nuttall
Mrs Margaret Emily Nuttall 76 died after a lingering illness. She was mother to Mrs Marion Tanner and sister of Mrs Thomas David of Mount Dora. Survived by husband George three other daughters Miss Claire Nuttall Mrs RR Rundels and Elizabeth and six grandchildren. Funeral services were to be held in Waterman Memorial hospital Eustis where she died after treatment in Miami.
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Margaret Emily Nuttall
Marion Tanner
Thomas David
Mount Dora
Nuttall
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Eustis
Miami
Tanner
David
George
Claire Nuttall
Elizabeth
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Lakeside Pool
Blood Bank
Melons
Wliam McLachlan
Frank F. Crockett
Joe Tracy
Walter K. Woolman
Alan Grant
Arthur A. Hartshorn
Edwin L. Wallace
Mr. Hartshorn
Frank Bridgman
McLachlane
Alfred Rehbaum, Jr
Fortner
Presi
Dent George White
Mount. Dora
Mabel Norris Reese
J. E. Mattocks
Jem
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