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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1934
Page
8
Rev. Joseph O. Kroff grows superb blackberries in Tavares predicting about 1000 quarts per acre at maturity and expanding plantings. The notice warns residents to pay poll taxes by Saturday to vote and that May 15 is the deadline to pay taxes without penalty.
Mount Dora Lodge No. 134 Knights of Pythias records the sorrowful loss of Brother C. W. Clary. The resolutions extend sympathy to his family and authorize copies to be sent to the family and published in the Mount Dora Topic The Okaloosa Messenger and lodge minutes.
The Wayside Packing House on U.S. Nodal in Sylvan Shores will close June 1 after a successful season. Shipments expanded fourfold to distant places and many tourists and locals were served free orange juice. The plant plans a larger facility and showroom to handle tropical fruit products and mail orders within Florida.
City business women led by Mrs. Nellie W. Taylor studied home problems at a monthly meeting focusing on canning chicken and kraut making. Orange County women’s clubs recently featured Mrs. Taylor demonstrating kraut preparation as part of the ongoing home demonstration program. Florida’s 1934-35 citrus crop projections suggest price fluctuations of about 10 cents per box could impact growers by roughly 3.5 million dollars, prompting Agricultural Experiment Station advice to boost tree nutrition for higher quality fruit.
Revival in Florida stems mainly from farm, grove and truck garden output with tourism and other sources contributing. Small areas receiving large capital for fruits and vegetables have shown faster recovery from principal decline.
A brief baseball note mentions Stephens delivering an out to Mosteller. The sentence preserves the names and indicates a play or exchange without extra details. The readable fragment implies a game event involving these players.
Fred Farun, UF agriculture graduate, received a two year scholarship to Oxford University School of Forestry in England from the Palestine government. He earned a BS and MS in Agriculture and will join the Palestine forestry service after study, departing for home this summer and entering Oxford in the fall.
County Agent Hiatt urges citrus growers to fertilize in May due to expected heavy fruit set and rains that have leached water soluble nitrate. Early fertilization is essential for desired fruit size and quality, as delays into June may miss sizing effects amid a likely heavy crop.
Herbert Cornelius Longstreet died in New Smyrna Florida on May 13 born in Syracuse 1866 son of Cornelius and Esther Longstreet. He lived in Mount Dora Coronado Beach and New Smyrna with a grocery business post master and mail carrier career, and served on Coronado city council. He is survived by two children R J Longstreet and Mrs Marion Tyron. Funeral held in New Smyrna with burial at Forest Cemetery Mount Dora.
Dr. Wilmon Newell of the State Agricultural Extension Service says counties now employing farm or home demonstration agents report greatly increased demand. In recent months several counties added agents and negotiations are underway in others.
A mixed page item lists a Westinghouse stove for sale at 60 delivered, plus an extended notices section detailing tax deed warnings for James holder, probate final settlement for Thaddeus W. Hackett, and a chancery foreclosure suit in Lake County Florida including parties Nitrate Agency Company Houston Rogers and others.
A 1941 notice announces candidacy for the Florida House of Representatives from Lake County Group 2. The author seeks Democratic voter support in the June primaries and states intent to succeed themselves subject to the voters will.
Florida 4H club boys and girls, county winners, will attend the annual short courses this year. The girls course will be held at Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee, June 8, with the boys course planned nearby.
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