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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1934
Page
1
An enthusiastic Tuesday night meeting in the Chamber of Commerce Office organized the local baseball association for 1934. Officers include J. G. Kirby president Frank Drake secretary treasurer George Malone manager and Mrs J. G. Kirby score keeper.
Mount Dora will exhibit at the Lake County Flower Show to be held in Tavares. Mrs. Gerald Hurlburt chairs Mount Dora efforts and asks residents to bring finest plants to the Home Demonstration Shop for display. Public viewing begins 2 p m Saturday with judging 12 noon to 2 pm and a Lake County talent program in the evening. An admission offering will be collected at the door.
Leesburg B P W members rehearse for Brown Eyed Susan a musical comedy to be staged March 29 in the high school auditorium Leesburg. Mrs William Morris stars as Brown Eyed Susan with Earle Broome as leading man and Mrs E B Fletcher and LaMar Tompkins provide comedy relief. Proceeds go to the club Scholarship Fund to aid students in Leesburg.
Montverde School in Montverde shows 38 percent honor roll for the fourth period with nine on straight A list. Junior class leads at 58 percent on honor roll. yearlong honor roll includes nine students. School plans Know Your School day to tour farm, apiary, shops and dorms. Summer Camp dates set for June 9 to July 21. inquiries for 1934-35 term rise, including interest from northern states.
Mount Dora and Sorrento receive CWA work with twenty four hours allotted this week. Unskilled workers fill community center and athletic field tasks at the local school project. Wednesday morning starts new placements as more names are approved daily. Skilled labor is now needed to advance school buildings and finish projects to completion.
Guests at Villa Dora enjoyed a string of events over weeks in a lively winter program. Highlights included March 3 card party and Rollins College Trio, March 11 Seth Parker program and choir sing, March 14 Mt. Plymouth golf with scores for Low Gross Jack Goss and others, March 15 Hungerford School performance, March 17 St Patrick card party with corsages, March 21 Orlando Country Club golf, and a Dora Canal boat trip planned for March 22 marking season end.
Scientists report fish die when dry handled and then placed back in water. Dr Ansel Keyes of Harvard notes dry hands rupture protective slime causing thirst in salt water and drowning in fresh water. Wet hands prevent death.
A historical note highlights fish and various sea foods as sources that help prevent nutritional anemia. It emphasizes the value of seafood in iron and vitamin intake for populations reliant on traditional diets.
Clermont will host the Lake County tourney starting Monday April 2 and running through Friday April 6, with Mount Dora involved in the regional series. J F Brantley received a sportsmanship medal at the Orlando State Basketball tournament. Monday’s tennis club meeting yielded uncertain prospects for a tennis tournament.
Kiwanis members heard about Florida’s 1934 Century of Progress exhibit plans at Lakeside Inn. Speaker Dr. W S Beard outlined the “Really Big Business of the Hour” as the club discussed funding, display upgrades, and the state’s strengthened tourist appeal with climate prizes and attractions.
The Lakeside Inn Trio with Mrs. Esther Wyatt presented a varied concert in Community Auditorium. Ahla Sparrell Reba Harrington and Gertrude Allen performed violin cello and piano with Mrs. Wyatt, featuring two saxophone solos and Irish numbers in costume for St Patrick's Day. The audience, though smaller due to local events, enjoyed the expressive performances and decorative stage setting.
Orlando merchant N P Yowell has accepted the chairmanship of Florida’s committee for the Chicago World’s Fair. The Florida State Chamber of Commerce announces the plan to oversee Orange Lake Osceola Seminole and western Volusia counties to ensure a strong 1934 exhibit. Florida’s prior showing at Chicago is cited as boosting tourism and state revenues through racing and gasoline taxes.
The Tourist Club discusses Rebecca of Farm for Tuesday night. A club picnic is planned at Johnson's on Lake Apopka with date to be determined. A full program for next meeting includes male and female performers. Admission for non members is 25 cents. The club aims to map out a 2 season plan and boost membership.
Readers are invited to claim a six week old litter from a mixed pair. The father is a toy Samoyed and the mother a thoroughbred Spitz. Five pups started as twins in appearance and now are ready to be adopted by new owners.
The Standard announces a Methodist Church food sale at Sidel's Mart on Saturday March 24 at 9 30 in the morning. An unrelated half column editorial ponders causes of unemployment with varying views on lack of work.
Mount Dora defeated DeLand 54 to 46 on the club rinks as three strong DeLand teams fell. Dean took top honors in the regular Saturday tourney with Weeks and Urquhart tying for second and Urquhart winning the coin toss. Finals notice for the North Central Florida Lawn Bowling League will be announced soon.
The Congregational Community Church hosted a 4 30 vesper service that drew a nearly full auditorium marking the season’s close of afternoon and evening meetings led by Florence Gilbert Hanscom. A. H. Whitford of Orlando spoke on Around the World in Thirty Minutes detailing mission work and Gandhi’s influence, praising Christian workers and the changeless Christ. Benediction by Rev B W Lockhart D D closed the event.
Lake County fans will pack the new Tavares gym Friday at eight for Tavares High Alumni versus Former Collegians. Notable names include coaches Banning, Hayes, Colbert, and Sauls, with players like Murl Pace and Ted Cassady, plus Dr. Miles Davis as physician. The quintet is managed by Emmett Tally with hopes of strong showings from both sides.
Continuous advertising by major retailers shows strong public support as shoppers respond to newspaper promotions and added value. Local businesses rely on ads to attract customers and sustain sales growth.
The flame vine bignonia venusta thrives in Mount Dora with lush winter blossoms and generous shade. Visitors report it outshines elsewhere in Florida, and locals are urged to distribute rooted runners to every home to boost the town’s flame vine display during the winter bloom period.
Clermont Tennis Club will award five cups to winners of a county tennis series to be played the week of April 2 to 6. Bona fide and winter residents may enter men and women singles doubles and mixed doubles with entry fees 1 per singles and 50 cents per doubles. Balls are supplied. Entries due by March 31 to Clermont Tennis Club for scheduling and matchups.
The fifteenth annual interscholastic water meet at Rollins College was moved from April 14 to April 21 due to a national swimming clash in Chicago. Fleetwood Peeples, aquatic sports director, says the meet could be the largest in Florida high school water sports history with entries expected from Ponce de Leon Coral Gables DeLand Orlando Palm Beach Winter Park Fort Lauderdale Miami Senior Umatilla Eustis and Tavares. Fort Lauderdale led by Katherine Rawls won last year’s girls events while St Petersburg topped the boys.
Unknown residents discuss borrowing electricity from neighbors and arranging delivery to themselves. The fragment hints at a shared or informal power supply arrangement without clear details or names.
The Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce announces its March meeting at the Community Building social rooms on Friday at 6 30. A well known speaker has been secured for the event inviting members to reserve the date.
Dr William S Beard assistant to Rollins College president Hamilton Holt will speak in Mount Dora on Thursday March 22. He will address the Kiwanis Club at 12 15 p m and then speak to high school students at 2 45 p m with parents invited to attend. He became associated with Rollins College earlier this year.
Rollins College retired executive secretary Dr Beard, a Yale Divinity School alumnus and Rollins contemporary of Hamilton Holt, built a career from South Killingly Conn to Willimantic and New Hampshire University serving Congregational churches and national lay ministers. He directed Pilgrim Memorial Fund regions and led the National Congregational Laymen's Advisory Committee from 1925 to 1933, earning Marietta College’s Doctor of Divinity in 1932.
The First Baptist Church choir will present an Easter cantata on Easter evening at 8 o clock. Directed by Mrs H Brown with Miss Klein Galloway at the piano. The cantata titled The first gee by Iva Harper Wilson, with a full program and participants announced next week.
The regular Wo mans Club gathering occurs Tuesday March 27 at 3 o'clock in the Community Building social rooms. The program features a reading of the play The Blue Teapot by Mesdames Sanborn Graves Truskett and Wentworth.
Two Mount Dora and vicinity students are named on the Florida State College for Women honor roll for the first semester. The 257 names include Marie Slack of Mount Dora and Lois Hazel of Terrerine, both juniors in the school of education, with B average or higher.
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