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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1937
Page
5
The Ladies Aid will meet at the Methodist church Friday afternoon at 3 o clock expecting good attendance. The group will share discussions, and attendees are urged to join.
Mrs Millard Reid hosted a Friday luncheon and bridge for Mrs F H Thurmond of Eustis who before marriage was Miss Virginia Peppercorn of Orlando. Mrs Roy Morgan of Eustis won the high score prize and Mrs Ray Thurmond received the low score prize.
Guests Mrs Roy Morgan Mrs Ray Thurmond Mrs F H Thurmond Eustis Mrs Elmer Austin Umatilla Miss Carolyn Kennedy Miss Mary Joyce Moorhead Mrs J G Ray Jr Mount Dora attended a prize event with notable attendees from region including Eustis Umatilla and Mount Dora.
An evening of games honored Mr. Learned with a walking cane bearing his initials presented by Mr. Oroa on behalf of attendees. A pink and white decorated dinner and a large eighty one candle cake followed, with Mr. Learned cutting the cake past to Mrs. Gutelius. Miss Lottie Roberts also celebrated with a sewing cabinet gift.
The audience was invited downstairs to a social hour with punch and cookies served and they enjoyed a performance by the high school orchestra directed by Miss Pemberton.
Mrs Isabelle Van Loon and many others leave Orlando for summer or return trips up the coast to Maine New Hampshire Massachusetts and Ohio. Several families plan extended stays from Patchogue Long Island to Cliff Island Maine and beyond while others head to Pensylvania Tennessee and Wisconsin for the season.
Mrs. E. M. Wentworth travels north with the Sanborns and will return by mid July to prepare the house for Miss Wentworth's summer visit. She will tour Chicago Iowa Illinois New York and other outlying precincts if she can endure the pace.
Last Tuesday the Randalls and Mrs. Randall left Mount Dora for the Maine coast where they return every year. Their absence is felt but they boost Mount Dora with Maine friends, while Mrs. Belle B. Sanborn and her son E. W. Sanborn have departed with Mrs. Wentworth. Mrs. Korn remains for a fifth Mount Dora season and may return in the fall. E. W. Sanborn of Dow Jones Co. plans to stay longer next year, enjoying Florida’s lakes and hills and a new desk in Wall Street.
A Mount Dora resident expresses deep gratitude to the local community for flowers cards prayers and visits during illness. Vivia Craig thanks the many organizations and people who offered kindness and support.
The April 30 Court of Awards in the Community Building honors Pine Cone Troop history begun in 1927. Scouts perform songs and a tableau then receive Health, Gold Star, Silver Star, Home Nurse, Junior Citizen, Cook Laundress Dressmaker, Hostess, Needlewoman, and Scholarship badges to celebrate attendance and service.
Mary Estey received the Ten derfoot Pin as Girl Scouts repeated their prayer and joined hands to sing Taps. Delicious refreshments followed the service.
Miriam Hopkins and Paul Muni lead an airborne wartime romance based on L Equipage. Anatole Litvak directs scenes from Paris to the front with Louis Hayward as the young observer and a strong supporting cast.
Mrs Lucy M Woodruff left Saturday for Boston and vicinity with Mr Woodruff before returning to their home and business in Clermont The couple manage a manufacturing business in Clermont and she is a dynamic civic leader serving as a director of the Lake County Chamber of Commerce and Clermont Chamber of Commerce and Mrs Woodruff works with the Ringling Barnum Bailey circus as auditor Mrs Woodruff is noted as an active community leader in Lake County.
Florida claims tung nut trees grow profitably outside China and cites Gainesville as home to the world’s largest tung oil processing plant, highlighting the state as an American tung oil center per the Florida State Chamber of Commerce.
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