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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1952
Page
5
An article by Nell Norris on maintaining garden pools with aquatic life. It covers beneficial plants like Anacharis water lilies and tropical varieties, planting in cement pools, and keeping the pool clear by avoiding edge leaves and trimming pads.
The Francis L. Dade chapter hosts a luncheon meeting at Mrs Josephine Simpson Tangerine on Thursday March 20 at 12 o clock. The event gathers the 1812 Daughters to discuss chapter activities and plans.
A benefit card party will be staged for St Mary of the Lakes church in Eustis on St Patrick's night March 17 at the Grandview hotel. The public is invited.
The Lakes and Hills Garden club sponsors the Garden Style Show featuring 44 models in wedding and summer fashion. Mrs Daniel H Bishop leads the mother of the bride dress, with Susan Jackson and Mary Jane Purser as bridal party members and Gay Heist in a junior bridesmaid role. Celia Claflin Shaw serves as mistress of ceremonies describing the gowns.
Mr and Mrs John Heist hosted a standout party on the season's social calendar at their Lake Victoria estate Beside the Point. Mrs Al Rehbaum Jr played the organ while Miss Carolyn Raney sang as guests enjoyed a flower show and lavish lawn decorations.
The Lakes and Hills Garden club hosted a 1952 bridal fashion show and garden party at the Heist estate on Lake Jem to raise funds for a civic Garden Center. More than 600 visitors attended the 2:30 program featuring music by Al Rehbaum Jr and Carolyn Raney, fashion layouts, and a wedding party procession toward a white lattice altar.
Winifred Harding daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Harding leaves Mount Dora with a friend after visiting her parents and a sister in Tallahassee. She will drive to New Orleans then depart March 24 for Los Angeles to pursue work as a laboratory technician.
Local church listings show service times and staff for Mount Dora area houses of worship. Details include Mount Dora Baptist Church, Fifth Avenue Methodist Church, Community Church, Church of God East Liberty Avenue, Church of Christ Fifth Avenue, with weekly Bible school, morning worship, evening services, and midweek activities led by pastors such as James H. Sutley Robert M Blackburn Robert R Reed A Austin Aubrey Mercer Roscoe Graham and Louis Johnston.
Around The Churches notes describe morning worship with Rev. Robert M. Blackburn on This We Raliava and Power That Is Real. An evening program features organist Fred Beuk and violinist Pearl Mauk performing great religious music. Dr. Robert R. Reed preaches The Choice of a Politician at Community church. Carolyn Raney substitutes as soloist with As The Rains Come Down. Midweek Lenten talks continue on more purposeful living. Baptist pastor James H Sutley presents Life Highest Hurdles in morning and Straight Thinking About Crooked Things in evening.
Judges Mrs. E. F. Reasor and Mrs. L. C. Nichol son of Orlando lauded the flower showcases at the Lakes and Hills Garden club bridal fashion show. Exhibitors led by Millard Reid earned blue ribbons for a late Georgian display of delphiniums snapdragons roses and lavender candytuft with several members earning red ribbons.
Central Florida Civic Music Association announces its annual membership drive led by Orlando president Dr. Louis Orr. The drive ends this week and offers access to seven concerts featuring Lily Pons Helen Traubel Arthur Rubinstein Fritz Kreisler and major symphonies for under one dollar per program. Membership inquiries go to Mrs. Frederick Sleight in Mount Dora.
The listing shows Sunday services at 11 a.m. and Sunday School at 11 a.m. along with a Wednesday evening service at 8 p.m. located at the corner of Lemon and Grove.
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