Mount Dora News Roundup and Community Notices
Miss Carrie and Miss Mamie True were surprised at a Milner home party hosted by Miss Carolyn Wright. Confederate Memorial half-dollars will rise to $2 each after April 15 per The Stone Monumental Association. Mount Dora Bank sold its 185 coins. Bank of Mount Dora has a few left. A Monroe dispatch notes airplanes speeding electrical repairs. Attorney Thomas H. Cooley seeks Florida House seat. Mrs. Carl Graves hosted 150 guests for St Patrick’s tea. Veterans Jones brothers bought Moorhead Feed Store. Mount Dora Model Manglers Club formed for youth, officers named. St Edward’s Episcopal Church may relocate to Fifth and Grandview. Mount Dora High School top honor-roll list led by twenty-something names. Lake County holds over 7 million citrus trees, a third of nine-county total, per State Plant Board.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie
Mamie True
Milner
Carolyn Wright
Madeline Milner
Tonia Ikola
Mount Dora Bank and Trust Company
Bank of Mount Dora
Monroe
Thomas H. Cooley
Mount Dora
Florida
Lake County
Cooley
Carl Graves
Eustis
Winter Park
DeLand
St. Patrick's
St. Edward's Episcopal Church of
Fifth and
Grandview
Masonic Temple
R. C. Bardwell
Fifth Avenue
Mount Dora High School
Wendy Bardwell
DeAnn Bateman
Pam Brown
Connie Cross
Richard Denson
Kay Elliott
The Topic Mount Dora announces weekly publication details
The Topic publishes weekly from Mount Dora Florida with offices at 132 West Fifth Avenue and mailing address P O Box 197 Mount Dora Florida 32757 Readers are invited to contact by telephone 904 383 43803 for subscription and information.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Fifth Avenue
Mount Dora
P.O. Box
Florida
Petey the Purple Gallinule Dazzles a Summer Dockside Friend
A narrator recalls a purple gallinule nicknamed Petey who befriended them at a lake dock. The bird fed from bread, climbed on the narrator, and brought five young gallinules, forming a summer of companionship. The piece blends naturalist observation with reflections on wonder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blue Pete
Petey
Crime reform top priority for Georgia Senator urges action
Sen. Jim Glisson of District 11 argues that criminal justice reform should be the legislature's main focus in April. He links high prison recidivism to broader government failures and warns that continued neglect of crime undermines trust in government and effectiveness of other agendas.
Mount Dora Is a Lady in Poem by Harriet McFerren
A short verse extols Mount Dora as a serene town with royal air and Mona Lisa smile. The speaker invites readers to feel welcomed, saying the hill town offers friendship and the rainbow’s end when one reaches out. Written by Harriet McFerren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Mount Dorans Considers Major Library Donation
In 1971 Crone addresses Lesley Conger about Mount Dorans likely giving a sizable gift for a new neighborhood library. The proposal emphasizes the value of a generous community response to this potential contribution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lesley Conger
Mount Dorans
Public Library Reverie and the Call for Support
A writer recalls a sunlit visit to a beloved public library, admiring names on benches and frieze, finding inspiration in Kate Millett and Daniel Berrigan, and declaring the library's education value. He urges Dorans to back an expanding public library to serve the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Library
Brig
Henry Fielding
George Eliot
William Makepeace Thackeray
Charles Dickens
Charlotte Bronte
Victor Hugo
Dumas
Hawthorne
Irving
Trollope
Sterne
Austen
Sir Walter Scott
Charles Kingsley
James Fenimore Cooper
Charles Reade
George Borrow
Reade
Borrow
Palestrina
Aeschylus
Zoroaster
Copernicus
Raphael
Jane Austen
Euripides
Thackeray
Bronte
Poe
Kate Millett
Daniel Berrigan
Eugene McCarthy
Henry James
Ken Kesey
Shirley MacLaine
Mollere
Fellow Dorans
Citizenship
City council reviews housing project on Eudora site
Whitworth met with recreation chair Cc. O. Lott while reports from March 9 meetings showed Planning and Zoning backing a 27 single family home project with potential commercial use on Herb Starr land at Eudora Road and Brown Avenue the old golf driving range. Council postponed until April 6.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitworth
Recreation Committee
Cc. O. Lott
Dake
Herb Starr
Eudora Road
Brown Avenue
Golf
Insurance committee weighs bids and sewer capacity study
Chairman Lott reported that Jim Noblitt offered free bid specifications for the city insurance program renewing this summer and suggested appointing Bud Wingler Jim Simpson and Bob Eastman to the committee. Noblitt said he would not bid on the package. No date was set for the next committee meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lott
Insurance Committee
Jim Noblett
Noblitt
Bud Wingler
Jim Simpson
Bob Eastman
Also Mentioned on This Page
Diane Demro
Jones Brothers
Kendall
Dale Jones
Archer
Moorhead
University of Florida College of Forestry
Dale
Owen Conner
P. J. Wethling
Orlando Eagle
Jimmy Vincent
Ross Dutton
Nell Marie Conner
Phyllis Turner
Howard Nutter
Dwight Mosteller
Mount Bora
A.M. Liveright
Vol
Mount Dota
Fie
By Margo Hosford
Ly Sen
Jim Glisson
Poet’s Corner
Harriet. McFerren
Crone
Council
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