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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1946
Page
4
Mount Dora Florida publication notes editors Edith Edeburn Keller and George Keller with Eugene L. Doma as superintendent. Subscription price in advance is one year at 1.25 with six months omitted and advertising rates. Entered as second class matter April 7, 1916 under the March 3 1879 act. The page closes with the U S pledge of allegiance.
Sugar Coupon No 39 in book IV remains valid until April 30 with no new sugar stamps issued or cannery sugar information available. Price control reports and checks cover apparel restaurants grocery stores and other items with ceiling prices on used cars refrigerators typewriters ranges vacuums and more. Purchasers must obtain a transfer certificate for used car sales and forms are mailed on request to the Leesburg office for veterans and new babies needing sugar rations.
Fifty five ladies attended a Monday Social Club luncheon followed by bridge and five hundred games. Mrs Ray Blanchard won the bridge prize and Mrs James Brydon took the five hundred prize. Next Monday at 2 15 p m Mrs Mattie White will host bridge tables and Mrs Peckham five hundred.
Sunday guests at the Grand View Hotel include Mr and Mrs Bow dish leading a two hour Dora l boat trip for many attendees. Wm Allen improves after confinement to her room and looks to sunshine soon. Recent visitors span Pittsburgh Cedar Rapids Detroit Chicago and other cities with several Dodgers ball club members among them.
The Villa Dora Hotel notes spring arrivals including William Richardson of Milwaukee and Paul Jones of Brocton among new bowling enthusiasts. A welcome to first timers contrasts with a regretful farewell to those leaving for northern homes. A Wednesday lobby party featured flowers and a refreshment table. Dr. Guy Armitage gave a Dickens related talk and magic act after Yukon and Alaska service. A planned Thursday house picnic was disrupted by weather.
Travelers proceeded to Juniper Springs for a planned grand day out as the forecast improved and a postponement to Tuesday was anticipated for the event.
Visitors to Lakeside Inn arrive for a quiet getaway by the lake with swimming, sunbathing, shuffleboard, and beach days. A Sunday evening Cotterill Sisters concert featured sacred interlude and quartet performances, plus a Bridgman talk on Cardinal Newman and his composition Lead Kindly Light.
February message urges saving first to enable annuity purchases. Recommends either buying life insurance or placing money in a savings account as first steps to building savings before securing an annuity.
The East Town St Marys Baptist services Sunday featured a full day of devotion and sermons led by Mrs E B Russell and Rev J A Rone Andrews with remarks by Mrs Dora Fletcher and others. About $600 was raised for church projects. plans include painting the church, repairing the parsonage, and new water toilets. An executive association meeting at St Marys is scheduled Friday from 10:00 to 4:30, with an Usher Board session on Sunday. A baseball game pits Youngsters against Oldsters at Heim Park at 3:30 Sunday.
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