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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1954
Page
5
Residents of Friendship prepare for June 8th Golden Wedding tribute to Dr. and Mrs. Pratt natives of Massachusetts with long ties to Greenfield and Worcester. They plan a North Carolina visit before returning to Mount Dora for summer.
City Council approved Tuesday night the Woman's Club appointment of Mrs von Warren as the club's representative on the Planning Commission for the new fiscal year.
The notice lists church postings in Mount Dora including Mount Dora Baptist Church Sixth and Tremain with Rev. David Coffield, Bible School at 9 45 a.m. and multiple services. Methodist, Church of Christ, Presbyterian, and Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with service times, Sunday School, and midweek meetings.
In Eustis, First Church of Christ Scientist holds Sunday services at 11 a.m. with Sunday School at 11 a.m. Wednesday service at 8 p.m. Faith Lutheran Church in the library basement lists Sunday service at 8:30 a.m. led by Rev. Phillip Schlessmann. St Thomas Episcopal Church offers Holy Communion at 8 a.m. every Sunday, 9:30 a.m. on first Sundays and morning prayer at 9:30 a.m. on other Sundays with a church school at 9:30 a.m.
Henry and Anna Brown of Tangerine celebrate their 64th wedding anniversary. Born in Vermont and married in 1890, they moved to Florida in 1921 winters and built a long community presence. Henry, a former Vermont legislator and Odd Fellows grand master, recalls boyhood on a Coolidge era farm.
Miss Rita Rea Edge of Tavares and formerly Newton Iowa is engaged to Lieutenant Samuel P Ford son of Mr and Mrs Samuel P Ford of Mount Dora Their wedding is planned for 4 pm Sunday June 13 at First Methodist Church Tavares Rev Paul Stewart will perform the ceremony Rita Edge is a Mount Dora high school senior Samuel Ford is a 1949 graduate who entered the Air Force in 1951 and is stationed at Moody AFB Valdosta Georgia
Two Mount Dora seniors, Helen Wages and Herbert Kurras, were among 25 entertained at a Tallahassee breakfast last week by Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Vogt. He is a professor in the School of Business at Florida State University.
William Ross Rainey, son of Mr and Mrs George Rainey of Sorrento, earned a Master of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and is set to commence ministry. Three days later he married Miss Lillian Enchelmaier of St Louis Missouri and plans to live in St Louis after a summer pastoral assignment.
The Lake County Pilot Club will hear Orvel Boyd head of the Christian Home and Bible School at its May 27 meeting at the Grand View hotel Mount Dora. The club seeks information on home needs to guide a potential project. Children from Florida attend the school and others come by bus from Central Florida communities. The group, two years old, has moved from Eustis to Mount Dora.
Juniors presented two plays at the IceHouse with standout performances by Knoll and Patty Johnson. Cast included David Cox Nancy Hamilton Charles Wareing Jo Osborne and Leslie Sanders in He Loves Me Yes and Betty Croke Pam Brown Bob Barnes Roger Haverlah Hank Link in Thank You Doctor. The two nights earned nearly 100 in free will gifts for the IceHouse building fund after expenses.
To emphasize its county wide flavor, Miss Helena Nutt of Tavares is president, guiding a broad initiative across communities with local officials and volunteers contributing to the effort.
Dr. Ladd M. Spivey, president of Florida Southern College at Lakeland, will lead the local Methodist church service Sunday while Rev. H. Mauriece Felton is in Key West serving as chaplain for two weeks. Other churches list speakers and topics for the weekend.
Al Rehbaum Jr was reelected commodore of the Mount Dora Yacht Club at the annual meeting. Elected with him were Howard G Gamble of Eustis vice commodore Dr J B Hall Mount Dora rear commodore John Murray Mount Dora secretary treasurer and J D Pease Sr Mount Dora member of the board of governors.
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