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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1946
Page
5
The East meeting era Star will hold a session tonight in the Chapter Room with four candidates to be initiated into the Order. Visiting Stars are invited. Monday Social Club cards begin at 2 15 with Mrs Ellen Waite and others hosting five tables of five pinochle.
Mrs Brydon and Mrs Hackett hosted guests at cards on Tuesday at the Hotel Mount Dora. Mrs Cronwall provided punch for the afternoon. Top scores in bridge went to Mrs Boyles and Mrs White while Mrs Purdy and Mrs Miller won at five hundred.
Mr and Mrs Fletcher Crane hosted an evening of bridge and pinochle last week honoring their niece Mrs Harold Crane of Mount Kisco New York. Guests included Mr and Mrs Wm LoFroos Mr and Mrs Robert Wise Miss Mede line Wise house guest from Minnesota Mr and Mrs A A Tanner Mr and Mrs Thomas David Mrs Richard McCoy and others.
Mount Dora Temple No 12 Py thian Sisters announce a meeting on Tuesday March 19 at 8 pm at Fraternal Hall. January February and March birthdays will be celebrated and an apron party will raise funds for the order. Members are urged to attend and visiting Sisters are welcome.
Thirty eight King's Daughters and friends met at Mount Dora Community Building for Sunshine Circle. Miss Mary Marshall led scripture reading and devotional. Reports on relief cases were presented and an appeal was made for clothing and food for former member Miss Jo Konig, now in Amsterdam with her husband and two daughters. Articles may be left where announced. Gifts from members included an all day boat ride invitation by Mrs. Harry Wise and songs by Esther Wyatt Bishop with accompanist R. N. White, Sr. Refreshments followed adjournment.
The Ocklawaha Chapter DAR held its March meeting on Thursday March 7 at 2 30 in the Florida Public Service lounge Eustis. The Regent Mrs Estey chaired the session with prayers and minutes read and approved. Treasurers report and funds from a February 19 Mount Dora card party were noted. Two longtime members Mrs Annette O King and Mrs Adelia Wright of Eustis were remembered in prayer. The after noon program titled American Music featured Mrs Elizabeth Miller and speaker Mrs Ona Hunter of Leesburg who sang spirituals and discussed advancing American Music.
A social event featured out-of-state guests and a hostess committee serving ice cream and cake. The April meeting, to be hosted by Mrs. Cox and her daughter Mrs. King, will be held in Tavares on April 4 at 2:30. The program is History in the Making.
Personal notices list discharge for William L. Holt GM3 from Naval Reserves in Jacksonville. Several visitors and guests travel between St Petersburg Umatilla New York Meadville Hendersonville East Middlebury and Hastings with family ties. Notables include birthdays and recoveries from surgery as well as long visits at the Tibbetts and Estey households with multiple relatives and friends staying at Max Holme Helen Street and other local addresses.
Pfc. James N. Davis Jr. requests his friends to write using his new address care of Fleet Post Office San Francisco California. Other notes mention Mrs. L C Downs joining her husband in Washington and a round of visits by relatives and friends at local homes and events.
Mr and Mrs J Stewart Banks stayed with their son and daughter in Tallahassee after an automobile accident left their younger son and daughter in law injured. They spent last week at their Lake Gertrude home and expect to return soon as the son recovers and his wife improves.
Residents of Mount Dora organized a card party at the Grand View Hotel in Eustis to benefit the Harry Anna Crippled Children's Home in Umatilla. The fundraiser raised 765 dollars as the Altar Society of St. Mary of the Lakes Church by selling tickets collecting donations and providing refreshments. The event highlighted community teamwork and generosity from local volunteers and supporters.
Thomas Mrs John el Mrs H R Miller and Esther W Mee, David Witten, Jes Egan are named in a scattered local notice or social listing. The fragmentary text suggests a sequence of individuals connected to a community item or announcement.
Lakeside Inn hosted the Cotterill Sisters in a Sunday evening concert billed Footlight Favorites. Selections spanned light opera and musical comedy from The Fortune Teller to Oklahoma with a final quartet by Sweetnam Booth Leach and Decker to a large appreciative audience.
Mr Matthew Gomez celebrated his birthday on Tuesday at the Grand View Hotel. Guests sang after a candlelit cake was brought. Sister Mrs Fernandez cut the cake and all tasted it while Miss Elmira Loder recovered from a severe cold. Local guests and Archer basketball visitors were noted among others from Chicago to Paducah.
Anna Ruth Thompson wife of Samuel M. Thompson died at her home on Grandview street Mount Dora after a long illness on Friday March 8. She leaves her husband a daughter Dorothy Thompson and brother W R Cullison of Lisbon Ohio. Born September 5 1867 in Warsaw Ohio she lived in Ohio Pennsylvania and Mount Dora where the family has wintered since 1921. Funeral services were at Rehbaum parlor with Rev George Gibson officiating and burial is in River View Cemetery East Liverpool Ohio.
We express deep appreciation for the kindness shown during the illness of our wife and mother Dorothy E. Thompson and her husband Samuel M. Thompson.
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