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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1932
Page
5
A Democrat candidate for the State Senate from District 3 urges Lake County voters to support his bid. He reflects on his years of service to Florida during past sessions and pledges to use his experience for Lake County and the state if re elected.
Clermont resident George F Westbrook ran a paid political advertisement detailing campaign positions. The notice appeared in local election materials, outlining endorsements and policy stances ahead of the upcoming vote.
Sorrento residents including Mr. and Mrs. Albert Black visit Petersburg and family in Jacksonville while many others travel for holidays. Mrs. J D Kennedy plans Jacksonville visits with relatives Carl Walker and Percy Register. Local residents George Coe Willie Ferris C M Brown Glen Brown and Ethel Lent are mentioned along with departures to Illinois and Ohio. Services at the Baptist church are set for Sunday at 11.
The article records a Sunday schedule led by Rev Youmans with a noon dinner and an afternoon service by Tomblinson of Orlando, plus a Mother's Day program at 7 30. It lists social visits including Mrs T A aonagaw as a dinner guest and mentions several families traveling or visiting relatives in Zellwood Mulberry DeFuniak Springs Mount Dora and Mammouth Me. Mrs Hill dies and is buried north with the body accompanied. other locals plan Revivals with Shaw and family. Dr Cowart and Mrs Ware also noted as winter visitors returning home.
The Philomatheans won the annual inter-society track meet at Montverde School on Saturday for the first time in four years. The event brought back many former teachers and students to the campus, including Miss Mary Daiger, Leon Osborne, John Bryson, Benjamine Gettings, Norman Gerald Thomson, Gwendolyn Sutterfield, Coleman Hinton, Margaret Whiddon, and Arrietta Carroll.
A Montverde May Day program featured readings and performances including A Rose am and a themed show titled A Tide in Disguise. Senior plays and department shows highlighted student talent with enjoyable acts and student involvement.
Rev. T. W. Carlton preached on prayer emphasizing the need for spiritual heritage and birthright in the Kingdom of Heaven. He also spoke at the evening service to Zellwood 8th grade graduates about greater opportunities for service through education.
The PTA will hold its monthly meeting in the school auditorium on Tuesday night of next week. All members urged to be present.
The annual boys and girls club rally will be held in Umatilla on Saturday May 7 at 10:00 in the school house in a joint meeting. After the joint meeting the boys will have a business session and a diamond ball game. Medals and scholarship winners will be announced. All county 4-H members and their parents are invited.
The Florida State Live Stock Sanitary Board releases Lake County Citrus Sumpter Seminole Brevard Indian River parts of St Lucie Osceola from tick dipping. The move brings 49 tick free counties, and cattle owners plan herd improvement by crossing native cattle with Angus and Hereford bulls as tick eradication proves valuable.
Wylie W Gillespie of Tavares announces for the nomination as County Surveyor of Lake County to succeed W F Lacey, who is not pursuing reelection.
At a called meeting on April 28 Lake County Poultrymen endorsed a committee report and recommendations. They urged County Agent and State Poultry Marketing Specialist Mr. Risher to hold meetings across the counties so every poultryman learns the details. A full plan set will be published later.
The article notes aphis damage in winter, especially on slow to come out trees and tangerines. It questions whether spraying or dusting is cost effective, advises limited control in old groves, and suggests Black Leaf Forty or nicotine lime dust with agent guidance from the County Agent.
A general surveying practitioner under the firm name Lacey and Gillespie has nine years of experience with Mr. Lacey focusing on property lines and corners in Lake County. He knows U S General Land Office and Florida land survey laws, county survey records of twenty years, and has passed the State Board of Engineering Examiners exam to be registered as a Professional Engineer and Land Surveyor.
Stafford Caldwell announces a direct campaign message to Democratic readers of the paper. He argues for frank public questions and records without personalities and asserts the need to resist political manipulation in a field of ten gubernatorial candidates. He frames modern power as money and legal tricks and urges voter independence.
A speaker urges voters to choose a gubernatorial candidate based on state leadership since 1920. He criticizes politicians for trying to curb voter freedom and defends his past discussions of state government while addressing records of Martin, Dar, and Hardee. He promises frank, studied remarks on state affairs.
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