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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 28, 1931
Page
2
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union will hold a meeting at the Community church chapel on Monday afternoon June 1 at 3:00. Dr Clapp will lead the session. This will be the last meeting until September.
Mrs Ethel Zell announces a park benefit card party to finance the rock garden under construction at Donnelly Park northeast corner. The event is Friday June 6 at 2 30 PM at Villa Dora hotel with 50 cent tickets. Townspeople are urged to attend and donate.
Mrs. R N White organized a children’s musical for about twenty five guests at Mrs. A W Birkbeck’s home last Friday afternoon. The program included patriotic songs, piano solos by Emily Battle, voice and piano duets by Flora Morley and Mrs White, piano duets by Emily Battle and Mary Louise Rehbaum, recitations by Mrs White, solos by Mary Louise Rehbaum, small solos by Betty Lou Battle with Emily Battle on piano, and tap dancing by Emily Battle and Mary Louise Rehbaum with Mrs White accompanying.
Mrs Ernest Youngblood and Mrs C J Helms hosted a Monday evening shower at Mrs Youngbloods home. Guests enjoyed spring floral decor and games including a towel hemming contest won by Mrs Michael and Mrs Claude Chapman. A basket of clothes delivered by Mrs Paul Johnson, in a dressed as mammy costume, presented gifts to Miss Bouterse. Ice cream course served.
Cake and punch was enjoyed by all. Those present were as follows: The Misses Dean Pinkston, Vada Ham, Mab Ray, Beulah Bouterse, Jewell Boydston, Georgia Kirby, Rosalie Brantley, Kathleen Gallo way, Bettye Bouterse, and the Mes dames Penny Fish, Mabel Norris, Earnest Youngblood, C. J. Helms, Sol Spilky, Paul Johnson, C. M. Brown, M. J. Bouterse, C. C. Moor head, Addie Chandler, Harold Over hiser, J. M. McCown, W. C. Williams, W. A. Carter, E. G. Hardy, J. G. Ray, W. T. Treadwell, Bessie Pooser, G. R. Galloway, Claude Chapman, T. B. Brock, C. E. Brock, Russell Coats, B. S. Eason.
Mrs E D Parker leaves Grandview Street for Norwalk Ohio. Dr Elizabeth Waller heads to Daytona Beach for summer. Mrs Warren C Butts stays at a private sanitarium in Eustis. Dolly Hayden travels by motor to Philadelphia for the season. Maud Day leaves for Lorain by bus. Miss Harriet Levings returns to River Falls Wisconsin after winter in Mount Dora. Mrs A M Slusser to spend summer with Miss Charlotte Fitch on Eighth Avenue. Burgess Thayer hosts birthday dinner for George D Thayer. E F Morrow and wife return from Warren Ohio to Mount Dora for the summer at Dunraven on Fifth Avenue. Dr and Mrs R C Conklin visit daughter Mrs C D Retan and granddaughter Geraldine of Rochester New York. Grant A Ladd to return from Merritt Island. Mrs M L Sears and Mrs Emma Marsh depart today for summer in Geneva New Mexico. E R Chamberlain and spouse spend first week of Mr...
motorists and families plan summer relocations to Pleasant Spring Park Ches ter West Virginia and other northern resorts. The list includes Mr. and Mrs. Clifford heading to Wellington Ohio, the Umlaufs to Maple Springs New York, Miss Lindeman and Miss Scott Daytona Beach, and many others joining relatives in Maine Connecticut New Jersey and Michigan for the season.
Frank Butler a Montverde boy swam twelve miles across Lake Apopka from Wells Gap to Montverde in five hours and fifty four minutes. Accompanied by Coach Eddie Young of Montverde School and Avery Houchard the senior, he started at 9 17 a m and completed the crossing at 3 11 p m. He did not touch the boat during the swim and received milk for nourishment mid crossing.
Mount Dora dated May 25 1931 announces the Board of Equalization will meet in the City Clerk's office on Friday June 12 to hear grievances regarding assessments as levied by the Assessor for Latah.
A proposal for a summer swimming competition for boys from several central Florida counties generates strong public interest. Some advocate holding the event in early fall rather than summer to suit conditions and maximize participation.
The Dickson Ives store in Orlando hosts a display titled The Birth of a Fashion inspired by the French Colonial Exposition. Readings on how designers in Paris adapt native costumes from Madagascar Indo China Somalia Martinique Morocco and other colonies into contemporary wear accompany the exhibit this week.
Howey in the Hills announces a summer open program at its golf course with greens fees set at fifty cents per day. The campaign invites golfers to enjoy the season at this affordable price point through the summer term.
Word has been received of the death of Miss Alice Emerson at Stamford Connecticut on May fifth. She and her mother Mrs Nellie E Emerson had spent seasons in Mount Dora and made many friends. Alice perished in a sanitarium fire while her mother survived. Remains sent to East Weymouth Massachusetts for burial. Mrs Emerson now at the home of her daughter Mrs Burnham in Central Falls Rhode Island.
Obituary recalling David St. Clair Simpson born September 23, 1886 in Mount Dora to David Milton and Mary Vann Simpson. He served as Mount Dora postmaster for 19 years, helped found civic groups, led local businesses, and died May 20 in a North Carolina camp after organizing Mount Dora Crate and Supply Co. Funeral held May 22 with Masonic rites.
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