Mount Dora Adopts Plan to Cut Water Meter Costs
The Mount Dora City Council approves a plan to reduce water meter installation from 15 to 10 dollars and offer a second meter for sprinkling at 15 cents per hundred cubic feet. The move aims to promote lawn beautification by lowering excess water costs and removing service charges for meter use. Local clubs and parks commission back the effort to encourage more lawns and plantings across town streets and parkways.
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Mount Dora
Water Department
Electric Department
Garden Club
Woman’s Club
The
Park Commission
Local studio seeks workers to meet booming photo tinting demand
George W. Lamoreux, a local artist, operates a hand tinting studio on the second floor of the First National Bank building. Ten girls are employed, with plans to double staff as demand for tinted Bok Tower photos from Mountain Lake grows across Florida and Georgia. No experience required. training provided. Mount Dora residents are invited to visit and see the work.
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George W. Lamoreux
Lamoreux
First National Bank
Bok
Mountain Lake
Georgia
Florida
New York
Mount Dora
Stetson Glee Club to Give Concert Here
The Tourist club schedules a week of events with a Stetson glee club concert Friday at the club meeting. The performance will feature solos, duets, quartets, and ensembles highlighting the group's stature in the state and nation. A masked ball at the yacht club follows on Saturday touted as a premier Mount Dora social event with notable costumes. The Chamber notes Ohio state leads the registration contest by one point.
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Stetson Glee Club
Yacht Club
Mount Dora
Deland
Chamber of Commerce
Ohio State
Directors to Meet for March Session of County Chamber
County Chamber of Commerce board to convene Friday for March session. Reports on recent exhibits with cost figures, cash prizes, county school situation, Florida Interior Traffic Bureau application for financial support, and other welfare matters for the county at large.
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County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Florida Interior Traffic Bureau
Free Lake County Survey Books Reach Farmers and Landowners
Farmers fruit growers and land owners who have not previously received a copy can obtain one by visiting the office of the secretary of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce in Tavares. The Lake County trade body aims to place books with interested individuals though they are too costly to distribute freely.
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Lake County
Libby to Speak on World Peace at Forum
Frederick J. Libby, executive secretary of the national Council for the Prevention of War, will discuss the issue of making for peace and the Washington conference aims. The Forum also notes Elmer Beach’s talk on justice and announces two more lectures after Libby’s address.
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Frederick J. Libby
National Council For the Prevention of War
National Council For the Prevention
Libby
Elmer Beach
Rex Beach
Beach
Yacht Club honors Fowler and local members
The Mount Dora Yacht Club received honors at the Florida Power Boat Association annual meeting in Sarasota. Frank Fowler will become commodore of Mount Dora in April and was elected vice president of the state association, with Roy Trimble from Mount Dora named a director.
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Mount Dora
Meeting Postponed at Yacht Club in March
The Yacht Club postpones its March meeting due to the social program. The meeting now occurs Friday evening, March 15, at 7 30 oclock.
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Yacht’ É Club
ACL Extends Train Service to End of April
W. W. Robertson, district passenger agent for the Atlantic Coast Line, based in Richmond, announced in Mount Dora that the special winter train service will be extended to the end of April to accommodate northern tourists and ease northbound traffic. He is temporarily stationed in Eustis and praised the lake region’s activity during his first visit.
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W. W. Robertson
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Richmond
Mount Dora
Robertson
Eustis
Lake Region
Florida
Mount Dora Viking Basketball Team Honored by Kiwanis Club
Mount Dora Viking basketball champions of Central Florida and state title holders were guests at a Kiwanis luncheon. Frank H Heath presented gold basketball watch fobs and officials praised the team for a 25 game schedule and an .840 winning percentage.
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Mount Dora
Winter Park
Harper
Citrus Citrus Meet Set For March 18 In Tavares
A citrus forum meeting for District No 3 of the Citrus Clearing House association will be held at the Tavares courthouse at 7 30 p m Monday March 18. Nominated for district director are E E Truskett James Mountain and T R Thompson. State at large nominees include R B Woolfolk J C Chase R P Burton B G Lewis A E Walker J A Griffin R J Trimble and J A Snively. Voting April 2 at Leesburg city hall or by mail to Winter Haven.
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Court House
Tavares
Citrus Clearing House Association
Clermont
Eustis
Dade City
Umatilla
Leesburg
Brooksville
Mount Dora
Clearing House
E. E. Truskett
James Mountain
T. R. Thompson
R. B. Woolfolk
Orlando
J. C. Chase
R. P. Burton
Emeralda
B. G. Lewis
Green Cove Springs
A. E. Walker
Winter Haven
J. A. Griffin
Tampa
R. J. Trimble
Lake Jem
J. A. Snively
Mount Dora High to Present The Gipsy Trail Play
Senior class to present The Gipsy Trail a three act comedy at Mount Dora High School auditorium on Tuesday evening March 26. Raymond Perkins stars as a modern adventurer with romance and mystery alongside Glenn Brown and Mary Battle in key roles. Rehearsals progress well and the production aims to raise funds for commencement expenses and a class gift.
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The
Dora High
Raymond Perkins
Glenn Brown
Mary ‘Battle
Mount Dora’ High School
Mothers to Be Entertained by Mount Dora Lodge
Mount Dora Lodge 238 invites the mothers of all Master Masons to a 7:30 PM event on Monday April 1. Members are asked to submit Mason mothers' names to secretary Je R Battle for special invitations to attend the program marking Mother's Day and honoring family sacrifice and morals.
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Mount Dora
Lodge 238
Je R. Battle
Mount Dora Hosts Mossman In Horseshoe Exhibition
Patt Mossman of Eldora Iowa a three year world champion horseshoe pitcher visits Mount Dora this week for an exhibition on Friday March 15 at 1 30 o clock. He will perform skill pitching and stunt acts and compete against Mount Dora pioneers drawing many enthusiasts to the event.
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Patt Mossman
Eldora
Iowa
Mount Dora
Mossman
Wizard
Offer to City Explained by J P Donnelly
J P Donnelly clarifies his proposal to Mount Dora to lease the Colonial Inn and lake shore for 25 years at 5 percent interest or other terms. He argues the town can own the property with no net cost, notes four rooms suited for town offices, and mentions the Woman's club needs a home. He also counters claims about lake shore value and boat house lots at Gilbert Park.
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J. P. Donnelly
Mount Dora
Colonial Inn
Gilbert Park
Lake Shore
Woman's Club
Mount Dora Plans Elaborate Riverside Park District
Arthur Frothingham of Tarrytown New York heir of Washington Irving to develop Washington Irving park in Mount Dora as an exclusive residential district overlooking Lake Dora. The project includes lakefront lots for boat house and wharf use, a landscaped amphitheater terrace with amaryllis bulbs, a fountain, cloistered colonnade, and future luxury homes. Frothingham recovered from illness to oversee layout, planting hundreds of thousands of bulbs, and early construction of a bungalow for temporary occupancy.
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Arthur Frothingham
Tarrytown
New York
Washington Irving
Mount Dora
Helen
Lake Dora
Coliseum
Frothingham
Washington Irving Park
Tavares Road
Eleventh Street
Helen Street
Poultrymen to Meet Tonight in Lake County
The Lake County Poultry Association holds a meeting at the courthouse in Tavares at 8 oclock this evening. Quaker Oats Company of Chicago will present moving pictures on grain handling from field to consumer and lecture on poultry management by Prof. W. C. McCoy. Music by the Eustis Boys band accompanies the program and all poultry raisers are invited.
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Lake
Poultry Association
Tavares
Quaker Oats . Company
Chicago
W. C. McCoy
Quaker ‘Oats ‘Company
Eustis Boys
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Fowler
A.C.L
Kiwanis Club
Charley Stapleton
Viking
Stapleton
Ray
Dart
Parks
Hale
Bradner
Turner
Carter
Rice
Cedar Rapids
John Parks
Richland
Decatur
Iil
Cecil Dart
Minneapolis
Fifth Avenue
S. M. Lewis
Masonic Lodge
Horseshoe Star
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