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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1945
Page
5
The Home Demonstration Club will skip its regular meeting on May 23 and host a pot luck social at Gilbert Park at 12 30 PM. If rain forces change, luncheon and social move to the Community Building. Male members guests will attend and everyone should bring a ten cent gift.
Mount Dora Chapter No. 193 of the Order of the Eastern Star announces a special thank offering at the next stated meeting on May 24. Contributions for Chinese relief are invited from nonmembers via Worthy Patron M. V. Simpson or at the social hour after the meeting. Isabel Patrick, W. M.
St Thomas Church held a May farewell for Rev Robert C Kilbourn with 75 members at the Parish House. The evening featured church choir numbers and a tune fashioned quartet. A Tanner home farewell supper followed for Mr and Mrs A A Tanner celebrating his recovery. An annual meeting of St Thomas Woman's Auxiliary covered finance reports and officer installations. New officers received their posts and a luncheon honored past presidents and the Kilburuns.
At a luncheon, the new president Mrs Blake congratulated Mrs Simpson for a successful year and expressed thanks on behalf of attendees for her generous hospitality.
Personal notes list William LeFroos in Warren Ohio on a business trip. Mrs. R. P. Briggs departs for New York and New England summers. Mrs. E. E. Dukes hosts sister Mrs. Anderson and child Ronnie from Blackshear Georgia. Esmay family leaves for East Worcester New York summer home. Goulds head to Contoocook New Hampshire after six months in winter home. Ray family travels to New Canaan Connecticut from Liberty Street. Sol Spilky reports a successful buying trip for dresses and merchandise. Anne and Alice Kurtz depart for Milwaukee Wisconsin after winter at the Davis residence.
Mrs Ada Silver leaves for Fayetteville North Carolina to visit her son Flight Officer Laitar M Silver and his wife for a few weeks. Silver is stationed at the glider camp.
Mr and Mrs J E Dixon and children of Winter and Mr and Mrs Jerald ae of St Petersburg spent Mothers Day in Mount Dora with their mother Mrs L J Drawdy Sr. Miss Annie R Reynolds is very ill in Eustis hospital after a stroke. Mrs Walter Campbell Taylor left for Boston after wintering in Mount Dora. Mrs Adam Hazelwood moves to Eustis with Louise Graeber due to living alone in Mount Dora.
Mrs Elizabeth Powers of Cleveland a chief and frequent Mount Dora visitor has moved here to make her home living with Mrs Anna Muecke at 412 Hillcrest Court. She has been visiting relatives in Jacksonville and Tallahassee for months. Mrs H H Mallory left this morning for Ohio and Michigan to visit her son in Cincinnati and other family in Detroit and Grand Rapids.
Mrs A W Hodges of Eustis chairs Lake County on the Stetson University music scholarship auditions. A $100 scholarship to the Stetson School of Music will be awarded to a high school senior or graduate for study in voice piano violin or any instrument. Applications contact Hodges by telephone Eustis 297 White or by mail. audition date to be announced next week.
In Atlanta last week R G Bob Teese of Photo Teese forecasts after the war a swing to motion pictures for amateurs with sound and silent formats. He expects a surge in color photography and notes audio visual education aids already used by schools and churches, highlighting military training program success as proof of instruction value.
Lake County Board of Realtors and guests will motorcade this Thursday afternoon to inspect 10 000 acres of newly prepared citrus lands in Howey Minneola Montverde Clermont and Groveland. The group will leave Floridan Country Club Howey-in-the-Hills at 3 pm and dine at Groveland Hotel at 6 30 pm with speaker Lacy Thomas addressing Lake County water supply.
The American Legion Mount Dora Post 35 mourns the sacrifice of John H. Adams, U S Army soldier killed in Germany during World War II. The post expresses deepest sympathy to his family and honors his service defending freedom and liberty.
The Mount Dora Post of the American Legion passes a resolution expressing condolence to the deceased’s loved ones and recognizing him as a gallant soldier. The measure directs a copy to the widow and is dated May 7, 1945 with signatures from Commander Ben H. Carr and Adjutant J. E. Guy.
Mr. W. E. Wring formerly of Paducah Ky died suddenly Friday afternoon May 11 in Marion Ky after a stroke the prior day. He leaves his widow Mrs. Ethel Wring. The Wrings lived on Eleventh Avenue for about a year until selling to Mr. Minkley this spring and made many friends during their residence.
The notice notes the passing of Mr. Wring and records that before his death he hoped to return to Mount Dora in the fall, reflecting his plans and state of mind prior to his passing.
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