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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1940
Page
5
The 13th at the Cameron home hosts a Ladies Aid dessert social Friday at 1 30 PM with thimble needle and scissors requested. Mount Dora Eastern Star honors Sister Mamie Landers and her mother at tonight's meeting with visiting Stars welcome.
The Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will hold a meeting Monday May 13 at 11 a m at 241 S Highland Ave the home of Mrs Rollin Javens. A covered dish luncheon will be served and all interested ladies are invited.
The Woman's Club sponsors a summer card party at the Milner residence on Ninth avenue Thursday at 7 30 pm. A small fee is charged and proceeds go to the Mount Dora Public Library.
Mount Dora Girl Scouts surprised Mrs. Thomas Lashar at her Alexander street home on May Day with baskets of flowers and gifts after singing scout songs. She recently donated a lot on Lake Joanna for the Scouts Little House.
The Misses Doris and Twila Camp hosted a surprise card party Saturday night for their mother. About five hundred attended, with rose and snapdragon decor. Guests included Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Purdy, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Blanchard, Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Ten Broeck, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. O'Hara, Mr. Anthony I. Goding, Mrs. Jean Tucker, and Miss Alice Ten Broeck.
Mr and Mrs Claude T McCarty of Boise Idaho announce the engagement of their daughter Jane Claire to Richard B Branham of Fort Pierce son of Mr and Mrs Lester E Branham of Indianapolis Indiana. Jane is a 1939 Stetson University graduate and member of Pi Beta Phi and Phi Beta. Branham also a Stetson graduate and Pi Alpha Upsilon member, and is athletic director of Fort Pierce High School. The wedding is set for June 5 at the Community Church Mount Dora Florida.
The Mount Dora P T A met May 7 in the Community Building with Mrs. George Coffin presiding. Lake County P T A Council President installed officers including Coffin as president and Mrs. Harold Overhiser as first vice president. A National Music Week program followed, with attendance prizes for 5th and 10th grades and a social hour after.
The Lake County Spinsters Club held a banquet and dance on Tuesday May 7 at the Mount Dora Yacht Club for members and escorts. A late 8 pm banquet was served by David Edgerton and corsages were worn by the ladies while escorts wore boutonnières.
The Ocklawaha Chapter DAR met at 11:00 A M to elect officers and hear reports. New officers include Mrs Mildred Fogg as Regent and Miss Hattie Allen as Treasurer. About fifty guests attended the luncheon and tea with blue yellow and white decorations marking the Golden Jubilee.
A noon gathering at North Donnelly avenue honors Mrs Ida Jackson on May 4 for her 79th birthday. Attending are Leslie Jackson and his father, Mrs Lotta Weeks, Curtis Jackson, Mr and Mrs Wm F Itgett, Mrs Hattie Mill Lolland, Mrs M E Hegeman, and Dr Heber D Ketchamall. The event features greetings, a dinner, and reminiscences of New England life.
Mrs. Adam Hazelwood intends to leave for Chicago early next week and will spend the summer there. Miss Dorothy White spent several days last week in Winter Park as a guest of Miss Ruth Beerbower. Mr. and Mrs. J.H. Brydon of 912 N Tremain street went last week to their northern home at LaGrange.
Mrs Clarence Gudgeon is in Indianapolis Indiana where she will spend the month of May visiting relatives.
Dr. and Mrs. R. A. Jones of 1271 South Clayton street departed last week for their summer residence in Toronto Canada. Miss Grace Liddecoat of Cleveland Ohio is visiting Mr and Richards at their Lake Geneva home.
Mrs Thomas Lashar returns to Fairfield Conn after months in the south. Mrs Esther Wyatt and Mrs Calvin Jones attend a PTA School of Instruction in Clermont. Mr and Mrs A N Stowe drive to Meredith NH after winter in Mount Dora Fla. Mrs G B Underwood visits Eastman Ga and Jacksonville guest of her son. Mr and Mrs Harry T Mathews go to Mount Kisco NY after winter in Tremain St. W E Simmons return to Edgewood R I. C J McLain heads to Kalamazoo Mich after visiting Villa Evans. Mrs Paul Johnson and Patricia return from Mount Plymouth Tenn illness visit. Mr and Mrs Frederick Mar move from First Ave cottage to Bustins Island Me for summer. They plan fall return. R J Brown and Miss Cora Brown motor to Lancaster NH after winter on Eighth Ave. Etchells family go to Stunkport opening their shop Frock and Frill. Wilbur Whitney arrives from Conneaut Ohio for a visit then returns with relatives north. Fred W Cross and Ada leave Tremain St for Fredericksburg Va then summer in South Royalston Mass. They plan October return. Harvey Kimball and daughter Ada visit son Don Kall at University Gainesville and attend eighth CSO anniversary banquet. Marjorie Cameron, wintering with Mrs H H Mallory, returns
Last week a popular young lady plans to return to Conneaut Ohio next winter. Mrs Alta Belshe and family travel to Memphis then Winnetka for the year while Mr and Mrs W W Schwartz visit Arcadia after the death of Mrs Schwartz father R B Coker an early DeSoto County settler from sixty five years ago.
Mrs D E Condit sails north after months in Mount Dora. She plans a Niagara Falls summer with son and daughter in law Donald and his wife. Mrs Sarah G Baker, improved, home from Mount Dora Hospital thanks friends. Dr and Mrs C C St and Mrs Isabel Webb head to New York City for months at Richmond Hill summer home. Mr and Mrs Edward N Wentworth of Chicago visit their mother in Mount Dora. Wentworth leads Armour livestock division on a southern business trip with their Samoyede dog.
The Epworth League expresses gratitude to Reverend K. G. Rogers and Mrs. Rogers for their untiring efforts and splendid direction of three one act plays presented on Friday May 3.
Hattie M. Allen past regent of Ocklawaha Chapter DAR expresses gratitude to the Mount Dora Topic editor and publishers for generous notices and meeting reports during her term. She offers good wishes for the Monitor and Topic.
The Mount Dora Girl Scout Troop with 24 active members met on April 29 and May 6 to elect new officers for the year. They plan a Court of Awards with the Eustis Troop in about three weeks and invite all visitors. The Shooting Stars and The Bobcats patrols will hold a candy sale next Saturday to fund the Girl Scout Little House on Lake Joanna. reporters Martha Williamson and Libby Drawdy.
Scoutmaster C E Carpenter and ten boys attended the Lake District Camporee in Leesburg park April 26 27. Total attendance 89 Scouts and 10 adult leaders. Odell Redd and Paul Mosteller received Life Scout awards. Walter Tucker First Class. Dwight Mosteller Second Class. others merited awards.
The piece reviews Gwen Bristow as author of a Louisiana trilogy and highlights Deep Summer as the first novel. It notes plantation life at Ardeith and Silverwood and suggests the American Revolution held little meaning for the residents, who dismissed outsiders.
A library note recommends Handsome Road This Side of Glory and Deep Summer as vivid portraits of old Louisiana life. The pieces trace two generations of Upjohns and Larne of Ardeith through antebellum wartime upheaval and 20th century social change. Eleanor Upjohn fights to save a broken plantation while maintaining her marriage and class traditions.
Lloyd Eason known as Lloyd Jones left Mount Dora on October 9 1937 to search for his father J F Eason. He found him in Atlanta Georgia in 1938 while working in an ice plant and was invited to come to the city for work.
In January he began as assistant to supervisor at a garment plant making work pants and related gear. He expects promotion in two months to lead the line, then become helper on the next line under the same director with the plan to advance to director of the two lines. His mother, Mrs. Jones, plans to move from Mount Dora to Atlanta to live with him in early summer.
The U S Civil Service Commission announces a competitive examination for a Substitute Clerk Carrier at the Mount Dora Florida Post Office. Applications close May 21 1940 and must be on file with the Fifth U S Civil Service District in Atlanta. Height and weight rules apply with military preference exceptions.
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