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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1959
Page
5
Mount Dora women launch a new Summer activity volf golf inviting husbands to join for two ball nine hole contests at Mt Plymouth Country Club with a handicap system and prize awards. Sign up deadline is 3 p.m. Friday.
Mrs. Daniel Bishop reports a well attended orientation workshop last Friday in the Community building. Over 150 members gathered for an all day session from 8 am to after 5 pm to train incoming chairmen of the club and its nine circles. Past chairs led the instructions and answered questions to prep for the coming year.
Miss Louise McClure gave a rollicking final program by elementary students in Mount Dora before leaving to Jacksonville next fall to continue teaching music. The performance, before the Parent Teacher Organization, included a calypso number and drew enthusiastic applause. It capped her brief Mount Dora career with plans to direct music for Baccalaureate and graduation.
The chart is a scale the author has devised and widely used to bill medicinals to those on public assistance. Mrs. F. H. Schuckert and Mrs. May Laughlin left Tuesday for Detroit to visit their families for a couple of weeks and then return to Caro, Michigan. Miss Ina T. Webster departed Monday with Mr. and Mrs. James Leach for Manchester, New Hampshire, then Ely Vermont, and Crawford House in New Hampshire for her 12th season there before returning to Mount Dora after October 1.
Mount Dora School patrol boys joined an annual Police Department trip to Silver Glen Springs last weekend Chaperones were Capt. Hermon Cox Patrolman J T Huett and Oscar Grantham Readable list of attendees includes Bobby Flora George Stoothoff John Rit tenhous Stephen Lane Harvey Partridge Edmund Harrison ae Caudel and Tommy Hurl att Florida legislators earn 1200 yearly plus 15 per day for session days and 0 10 per mile for eight home Tallahassee trips during the regular session
Linda Sue Frisby and Herman Kenneth Cox wed at the Baptist Church with Rev. David Coffield officiating. The ceremony featured lace and tulle gowns, blue chiffon bridesmaids, and a reception followed. The couple plans to reside in Tangerine after a honeymoon to New Smyrna Beach, while local obituaries and community notes fill the rest of the page.
District 14 of the Registered Nurses Association will hold a rummage sale on Saturday at 9 a.m. opposite the Post Office on Alexander Street. Proceeds support club activities and member outreach.
The 15th annual Garden Club short course runs June 23 to 25 at the University of Florida. More than 250 gardening enthusiasts are expected. Mrs. Edith McBride Cameron leads the program, with emphasis on landscape architecture and general gardening topics. Advanced registrations are to Mrs. Cameron in Gainesville. Registration is $3 for any portion.
The Junior Woman's Club advances a maternity clinic on city land granted on the 11th. A bake sale is set for Saturday at the Princess theatre, with the Senior Woman's Club assisting. The annual installation banquet is Monday at 7 30 p.m. at the Community building, with Mrs. Donald Hollingsworth as installing officer.
Mount Dora hosts Lake County Duplicate Bridge with winners Mrs. E. A. Nimnicht and Mrs. William Clifton claiming first place, followed by Mrs. S. C. Colley and Mrs. John Alden Murray second. Ernest Butler and Merrett Reeve take second in the east west pair.
Mrs. Mary Morse and Mrs. Annie Congdon, both of Mount Dora, remain confined in Waterman Memorial Hospital along with Rev. William Aubrey and Joseph Henna. Also hospitalized is Mrs. Loretta Montgomery of Lake Jem.
The quote argues that irrational held truths can be just as dangerous as errors reached by reasoning, warning against blind faith over critical thought. It attributes the maxim to Thomas Henry Huxley.
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