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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1948
Page
2
This excerpt offers position play guidance from an old pamphlet for lawn bowling. It covers leading second vice skip and skip roles, practice advice, adapting to jack distance, and emphasizes examining the head, losing gracefully, and maintaining rhythm and concentration to improve delivery and consistency.
Ed Jacques failed to lift the carved fish from the water while Jasper Wolfe won top honors in the runabout races at the Homefolks Regatta on Lake Dora. Wolfe drove for W A Currie of Howey, with multiple wins and notable spills during the kicker and free-for-all events. The Mount Dora Casters club staged the show with prizes and crowd-pleasing precision, awarding miniature cups and tackle boxes to top finishers.
Rev George Gibson selects For Whom the Bells Toll for Memorial Day sermon at First Methodist Church Sunday at 11 am with Chancel choir Ruth Woodman Stanley soloist and Fred Mauk on organ. Sunday school 9 45 am youth activities 7 pm. Florida Annual Conference meets June 2 6 in Miami with Bishop Arthur J Moore presiding.
A Duroc gilt named prize pig of Charles Allison of the area gave birth to fifteen piglets in May after winning the grand championship at the Lake County Fair in March. The sire is a Cherry King boar owned by Daniel Shaw of Eustis. The mother and litter are reported doing well as Allison bottle feeds four of the babies.
A. O. McAlister and Anton Axman fished near the fish camp on Lake Dora. Axman almost triggered a chase when a real alligator appeared, drawn by a large mouth bass strapped to a boat prow. Wilton Adams reported nine bass from Lake Gertrude last Friday and six the morning before, catching both with wiggler and pork rind.
Forestry is Florida’s third largest income source, bringing in more than 130 million dollars in 1946. The tourism and citrus industries led, with 790 million and 146 million respectively, ahead of forestry.
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