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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1930
Page
4
The March missionary meeting of the Congregational ladies will be held Thursday the 13th at 2 30 P M at the home of Mrs George C Raymond 1022 North Donnelly avenue. The subject will be The Philippines A social hour with refreshments will follow. All are invited.
Last Thursday night the Girl Scouts attended a party at Miss Hendrie's. Miss Crawford entertained them and taught part of the Indian sign language. After a delightful evening with music and sign language thanks were given and refreshments served. Peggy Champ Scout Scribe.
The Parent-Teacher Association held its regular meeting in the High School auditorium on Tuesday evening. Officers elected for the year include vice president Mrs Blanchard secretary Miss Betty West and treasurer Miss Cassady with Mrs O W Sadler Jr remaining president. The program featured several popular numbers by the High School orchestra.
A Monday morning event at the Lakeside Inn featured nine bridge tables and one five hundred table hosted by Mrs. A. E. Hurlburt. Bridge prizewinners included Miss Jones, Mrs. Swindell, Mrs. Jennings, Miss McClintock, Mrs. Herrick, Mrs. Denning, Mrs. Greene, Mrs. Cummins, and Mrs. Hewitt. five hundred winner was Mrs. Burdick.
An evening of music at the Lakeside Inn featured instrumental trioGeorge Abele cello with violin and piano. All numbers were well rendered with several old fashioned pieces requested and popular. The event was among many entertainments for Lakeside guests this season.
Richard St. Barbe Baker, an English official famed for forest conservation in Nigeria, is the next forum speaker at the Community Halls. His talk will focus on "The Men of the Trees of Nigeria" and is billed as a standout event for Monday night audiences.
The Garden Club met on March 12 with Lake County Agent Clifford Hiatt as speaker sharing composting, rose care and fertilizers. Members vote to exhibit at the Lake County Flower Show in Tavares March 13 14 15 and plan their own spring show in the Community Building later in March. An authorization was approved to pay five dollars for an engraved plate on the shovel used by Mrs Coolidge in the January 24 tree planting. Visitors are welcome.
The regular Wo man s Club meeting is set for Tuesday afternoon March 11 at 3 o'clock in the parlors of the Congregational church. Visitors are welcome.
Mrs. A. I. Marentette will give a concert for St. Mary's Church of Eustis in the Eustis City Auditorium on Friday evening February 14 at 8 o'clock.
The Women's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet at 846 Fifth Avenue Monday at 3 o'clock with Mrs Pray and Mrs Salisbury hosting. All are welcome.
The usual Matinee Whist at the Yacht Club will be in charge of a committee, chaired by Mrs. George Thompson. Bridge and Five Hundred tables will be ready at 2 30, and refreshments will be served after which prizes will be awarded.
The Tuesday Evening Bridge events at Grand View drew strong turnout with guests from Lakeside and Villa Dora Hotels and a cottage colony presence. Prizes were awarded for Ladies High Bridge to Mrs. Ryan and Mrs. Dickey, tied and cut, Miss Shelton led in 500, while Mr. Knapp took Men's High Bridge and Mr. Wells led in 500.
Mrs Margaret Jones, longtime host of the Tourist Club program, amused by being mistaken for Madam Schumann-Heink. She shares a popular reading titled Madam Shoeman Hike and notes her youthfulness at seventy eight, mother of eight, currently with Mrs D V Heist at Lake Jem.
The monthly W C T U meeting was held at the Community church chapel on March third. Miss Butts reported on the Lake County Convention at Eustis February 24 and 25 and urged subscriptions to the Union Signal. Mrs. Overhiser and Dr. Clapp led the day’s Frances Willard program with tributes, poems, and life anecdotes, with twenty four members present. April meeting will be led by Mrs. Sheldon.
Mr and Mrs W E Jones and their daughters Martha and Lorraine plus Mrs Jones mother Mrs Harbin of Atlanta spent a weekend with Mr and Mrs Eugene L Downs of Grandview avenue. The party traveled from Atlanta via Ocala Leesburg and returned Tuesday via Daytona Beach St Augustine and Jacksonville visiting Trimble Park Rock and Wekiva Springs and Silver Springs.
Personal calls and travels abound as families and guests visit Daytona Beach, Mount Dora, Orlando and Jacksonville. A steady stream of relatives and friends from Cleveland, Albany, Minneapolis, Chicago, Auburn and Albany gather at winter homes and motor trips along the east coast and trails.
The offertory Sunday at the Community Church featured a solo by Mrs. Marentette, her second this season, admired for her lovely voice and sympathetic phrasing. The ladies choir directed by Mrs. R. N. White with organist Mrs. Naomi Slocum has provided splendid winter services, with upcoming offerings by Harriet Wise and Mrs. H. W. Fish enhancing the musical program.
An OCR distorted notice lists attendees including Miss Marian Way in Burlington Vermont and others from New York City Bronxville Tuckahoe and Kansas City along with several Burlington residents. The fragment shows names and places but no clear event details.
Latest arrivals at the Grand View Hotel include Mrs. A C Wheeler of DeLand Florida and many others from Ohio New Haven Conn Avon Conn New York City Rochester N Y St Petersburg Fla Jamestown N L Day tona Beach Fla Tampa Fla Jacksonville Fla Rochester N Y Grand Rapids Mich and more listed as traveling guests.
Public notices in Lake County include an order for constructive service in a foreclosure case against Ralph N. Flint Flora Flint and Laura Lints with April 7 1930 appearance, to publish in The Mount Dora Topic weekly for four weeks. A second notice governs quiet title claims by Anthony Frazier et al against lands described in Victoria Settlement Orange County Florida.
In the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit of Florida Lake County a foreclosure suit is filed by Charles Edgerton against Minnie Permenter seeking to foreclose a mortgage on Mount Dora area real estate described as the South Half of the Northeast Quarter of the Northeast Quarter. The case is filed in the Circuit Court at Tavares with publication notice for four consecutive weeks. Judge GEO J. Dykes signs the order with Deputy Grace as clerk.
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