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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1941
Page
5
A special meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary is set for May 13 at 8 pm in the Kers City Hall Council Room. All members are urged to attend. The Community Church porch party is Friday at 8:30 am hosted by Mrs. Harry Westbrook at 714 Donnelly Street with sewing for the December sale.
Mrs A M Green announces the engagement of her daughter Miss Lillie Mae Beasley to Mr Cecil W Barks son of Mr and Mrs William Barks of Mt Plymouth Florida Miss Beasley is a Mount Dora Public Schools graduate Mr Barks a graduate of Apopka schools and is now stationed at McDill Field Tampa The wedding is set for mid summer.
The Monday Social Club wraps its season with a 2 15 start for the last gathering. Mrs. George DeMuth has served as club president this season with six tables played. Mrs. Ray Daniels won in contract, Mrs. Lotta Weeks in auction, and Mrs. Ray Blanchard took top honors in five hundred.
The May 1 gathering at Veteran's Hall Umatilla featured Mrs. Fogg presiding as Regent and Robert Abernethy of Winter Haven named Florida State Regent. A covered dish luncheon followed with corsages and remarks by Abernethy on plans for the term and Continental Congress highlights.
Personal S. Cadman rests at Sound Dorn Hospital while Mrs. Cooper of DeLand visits her son Clarence Cooper. Mrs. Stanley Holmes plans a two month trip to New Jersey and Connecticut starting the fourteenth. Clark and Chandler Holmes travel from Newark to visit Mrs. Holmes’s mother in Donnelly Avenue Donnelly. Others depart for homes in Chestnut Hill Pa Youngstown Ohio East Liverpool Conn and Maine after winter stays.
The piece lists local residents attending reunions and visits, summer plans and relocations. It notes Jerald Drawdy’s appointment as M A of his platoon at Norfolk, VA, several families leaving for summer homes in Maine, Indiana and Connecticut, and Col. W. J. Sanborn's recovery after a broken hip while in Lake County Medical Center.
Sorrento residents report winter visitors leaving for Ohio and returning to homes in Paris Hill New York and Missouri relocations. E C Porter has closed his winter home and heads to Paris Hill. Barrs family moves from Missouri to a brother's property formerly occupied by Snyder. Visitors from Zephyrhills Cleveland Painesville Wooster are noted.
The article notes Mrs. McAllister making Miami her permanent home and that a veteran minister plans to continue service through May marking fifty two years in the Presbyterian church. It lists past postings in Pittsburgh Newark Aurora and other communities, cites health as reason for immediate departure to Philadelphia, and mentions well wishes for his recovery. It also references local families and community members, travel to St. Augustine for a school program, and a Toy Land themed presentation by students of the State School for the Deaf and Blind.
The Lake County Medical Center in Eustis invites the public to visit Sunday May 11 1941 from 2 to 5 p m in celebration of National Hospital Day. The event honors Florence Nightingale for her 1854 Crimean War work and lasting impact on hospitalization.
Lake County watermelons, usually the nation’s earliest, will likely be a month late due to unfavorable weather. Frosts killed early plantings and forced replanting up to six times, with harvests not expected until late June. Sea Island cotton and tomatoes are progressing, while cucumbers move heavily and rain is needed in parts of the county.
The National Forest System reaches its fiftieth anniversary this year, noting that the term National Forest did not come into use until 1907.
The Leesburg Commercial reports plans for a Central Florida blood bank at Theresa Holland Hospital. Mayor Herbert Butler volunteers as the first donor as Dr H G Holland screens donors and typing begins. If funded the bank would store plasma for emergencies and aid England, with cities like Miami and Jacksonville already ordering equipment.
The Lotus Blossom Festival returns to McIntosh on June 26 with a historical pageant tracing pre white arrival to today. Directed by Mrs. M. M. Gist a contest selects the 1941 Lotus Blossom Queen followed by coronation and guests aboard Bird Island Cruise.
Uplifting guidance from the Federal Bureau of Home Economics urges daily potato usage. It covers cooking methods to maximize vitamin C, reduce water loss, and achieve fluffy mashed potatoes and crisp hashed browns with a small amount of hot water for a brown crust.
State Superintendent Colin English announced two Florida universities will invite high school teachers to enroll in national defense courses. The program will be conducted at the University of Miami and the University of Florida during the first term.
Each institution will provide classroom instructors of mathematics and science with six weeks experience in laboratory and manual work related to airplanes engines radio and machine shop tools. Courses respond to demands from high school teachers to cooperate with the State Department of Education in its defense program.
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