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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1940
Page
5
Mrs George we announces the engagement and approaching marriage of her daughter Georgia Rose to Pickens Cole Talley of Lakeland Florida. The wedding is set for June fifteenth. Miss Pomona Davidson hosted a slumber party Friday night.
The Methodist Women’s Society for Christian Service will gather at 4:00 p.m. at the Parsonage with a pitch-in buffet at 6:00. The Spinsters’ Club met to plan a Yacht Club banquet in the next two weeks. Monday social club hosted a card afternoon with prizes and will meet again next week.
The Woman's Club hosts a weekly card party at 9 30 tomorrow morning at Mrs Eardley Wilmots home 1021 McDonald Street proceeds go to Mount Dora Public Library all are invited and small fee charged Mrs Wilmots chairs the clubs Ways and Means committee
Mr and Mrs J L O Hara celebrated a wooden wedding anniversary on April 18 with a gathering of twenty four friends who joined them for an evening of refreshments and cheer.
An Ames event enjoyed gifts and singing with a nine o clock lunch and a large cake. A practical highlight was a supply of firewood for next winter along with matches to light it.
The Lake County P T A plans a Tuesday evening meeting in the Community Building auditorium. Officers to be installed include Mrs. George Coffin as president and Mrs. Harold Overhiser as first vice president. National Music Week offerings will feature performances by Mrs. C M Brown, Miss Kathleen Galloway, and Mrs. Esther Wyatt.
A parade of summer travelers leaves Mount Dora area homes. Fort Pierce guest Mrs. R. R. Mimms visits sister Mrs. Lewis Carroll while many couples head to lakes and coasts from Patchogue Long Island to Bridgeport Connecticut and Martinsville Indiana.
Mr Dan H magegy returned from Grand Rapids Michigan where he stayed with his aunt Mrs Ida Bishop She grew markedly better after her husband left Wednesday Mrs A A Cooper attended the American Legion and Legion Auxiliary convention at St Petersburg as a delegate from the Eustis Auxiliary She was present for the entire session and its meetings Mr and Mrs R H Crawford of Philadelphia winter guests at Lakeside Inn left for home Dr Gerald Richardson accompanied them Crawford had been in Mount Dora Hospital for weeks for a heart ailment and is improved
Mr and Mrs Raymond Foushee of Birmingham Alabama welcomed a son born April 19 weighing seven pounds fifteen ounces named Raymond ie. Mrs Foushee is the former Miss Yvonne Malusky of Mount Dora and the baby is a nephew of Mrs Esther yatt. Born to Mr and Mrs Joseph Evans on April 24 at Lake County Medical Center a six and three quarter pound son William Stanley. Mother and baby are getting along nicely.
Mount Dora Library adds The Wabash by William E. Wilson to its Rivers of America Series. The volume, part of a nine of twelve published titles, highlights the river’s role in shaping early U.S. borders and settlement amid notes on series editors Constance Lindsay Skinner Stephen Vincent Benet and Carl Carmer.
W. E. Wilson of Indiana presents a Lincoln biography noting Abe Lincoln’s early years in Wabash County and the frontier influence on his character. Illustrations by John De Martelly accompany the narrative. library hours shift after May first to Monday Saturday afternoons through six.
A fragmented note outlines budgeting for a Salem Massachusetts household. It lists expenses such as beer meat fish groceries coal oil and a weekend beer totaling sixteen dollars, with an admonition that debt would result and a suggestion to cut the wife’s beer. The message conveys household frugality and social detail from a personal letter.
Congress faced a large printing bill for 1938 39 with $570000 spent on printing alone and a total of $700000 covering committee reports hearings franking envelopes and other printing duties. Public Printer A E Giegengack announced the figures in January.
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