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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1938
Page
4
Georgia peaches flourish while Florida eyes growth from festivals to farm finance. May 26 hosts the Lebsurg Watermelon Festival as gladioli bloom export millions of stems, and a New Deal housing aid expansion offers farmers long term low interest loans and FHA insured mortgages to rehabilitate farms and homes.
The passage recalls Roger Bacon, a Franciscan at Oxford, proposing a device to fly by man powered wings. It notes that such ideas were once dismissed as emanations of a Black Dots association and that Bacon faced shock and imprisonment for his theories.
The Lake County assessor Murl Pace is praised by publisher Martin Anderson for implementing an equitable assessment system. He credits Pace with reworking raw land values into improved property values and boosting tax rolls while lowering taxes for some.
The first blue and gray reunion will take place at Gettysburg with WPA preparations and Federal funding for veterans travel. Pennsylvania will cover expenses. more than a hundred thousand visitors are expected daily, centering July 3 when President Roosevelt dedicates a peace memorial.
Comptroller Jim Lee leads tax collection in Dade county drawing criticism from merchants and legislators amid a one half of one percent gross receipts tax dispute. Florida Democrats seek a new state party chair with three candidates, led by Tif Turnbull, amid ongoing New Deal loyalties after the recent primary.
Growers report U S No 1 melons ship with minimal trouble as limited rain reduced fungus diseases. A Florida Citrus Industry bulletin from the Agricultural Adjustment Administration provides economic context for production and marketing. Lake County 4H club sends 25 boys to Gainesville for a weeklong Short Course at the University of Florida.
The piece presents a devotional verse asking for divine guidance and deliverance from sin plus a consoling image of an angel at the crossing river. It is attributed to Cresson E. Finch and ends with a reflection: too much outside advice feels like back seat driving.
Olympe Bradna and Gene Raymond star in Stolen Heaven a Paramount romantic drama at the Princess Theatre next Sunday and Monday. Bradna a seventeen year old French actress plays a jewel thief who seeks a fresh life with Raymond as an aged pianist helps the couple against their past. Glenda Farrell and Porter Hall join the cast as the couple s daring allies.
The journal describes a day trip from Havana to Matanzas on April 20 1938. The group travels 150 miles east through towns and sugar mills to the city of Matanzas population about 60000. They tour the San Antonio sugar mill caves of Bellamar and nearby Monserrate Hill. They note tropical scenery Royal Poincianas laurel Ceiba trees and a thunderstorm. They end with an American film Mr Topper and promise a concluding article next week.
Rev. Kenneth G. Rogers leads services at 11 00 Union Memorial in iCommunity Auditorium with 10 00 Church School and 6 30 Epworth League. Baccalaureate sermon by the minister follows, and midweek prayer is scheduled for Wednesday at 7 30.
The notice lists services at Union Memorial Church in the Community Auditorium with an 11 00 a m morning service B Y P U meets at 7 00 pm and a Wednesday mid week service at 7 30 pm Strangers are welcome and those without a regular church home are invited.
Coane Andrew Melrose D D Florence Gilbert Hanscom organize Bible School at 10 A M and a memorial service scheduled for 11:00 a.m. at Union Memorial.
St Thomas Episcopal in Florida holds Sunday School at 9 45 a m and Holy Communion at 11 a m with a sermon by Rector D T Johnson.
The Church of God on Liberty Street led by Pastor G G Prince invites worshipers to Sunday services at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. Sunday School is at 10 a.m. and a prayer meeting is held Thursday at 7:30 p.m.
First Church of Christ Scientist in Eustis Florida lists Sunday service at 11 a m with the topic Ancient and Modern Necromancy alias Mesmerism and Hypnotism Denounced A Wednesday 8 p m meeting features testimonies experiences and readings A reading room at 117 Eastustis Street Fountain Inn open daily except Sundays and legal holidays from 3 5 p m The Bible and Christian Science literature may be read borrowed or purchased Public invited to attend services and use the reading room.
In Lake County two couples marked long marriages this week. On May 16 in Eustis Mr and Mrs Henry W Bishop celebrated fifty years of marriage. On May 17 in Tavares Mr and Mrs J M Gillespie reached fifty six years, after marrying in Warwick New York and moving to Tavares in 1923 where they have long served the community.
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