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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1935
Page
1
A ceremony honors the history of secondary education in America with lists of early schools and notable graduates. The event includes diplomas, a choral address on the future of education, and a reception by the Sophomore Class for Dean Norman and the graduates featuring Virginia Beerbower Barbara Blanchard and 14 others.
The Florida Black Bass Bill, after a decade of effort led in the Senate by T. G. Futch and in the House by I. N. Kennedy, passed the House on April 26 by 79 to 5. The law prohibits purchase or sale of Black Bass taken in Florida waters or shipment out of state, aiming to preserve the sport fish.
The Mount Dora High School Class of 1935 will be guests of Kiwanis for a luncheon program. The class quartet Barbara Hopcraft Barbara Blanchard Frank Pgoser and Cecil Parker will provide music with Helen Stewart at the piano. Ed ward Brooks, class president, will respond to the welcome. introductions and other features planned.
A speech extols steady town growth and merchant support. It argues strong mercantile backing boosts development, urges businessmen to invest in the town, and invites readers to trade locally to save money by keeping their money at home.
Mount Dora split two baseball games this week, beating Eustis then losing to Apopka. Clermont leads the league with eight straight wins, followed by Kissimmee, Mount Dora, Apopka, Umatilla, and Eustis.
At The Theatre Sequoia opens the week with a high mountain filmed drama from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer about a girl in the wilderness who befriends Nature. Chinatown Squad features Lyle Talbot Valerie Hobson and Hugh OConnell. The Hoosier Schoolmaster stars Norman Foster Charlotte Henry. Saturday offers Behind the Green Lights. Next week The Bride of Frankenstein arrives.
The Florida State Fox Hunters Association will hold a meeting here Saturday at 4 p m in the Chamber of Commerce office. E H Wilkerson of Eustis is president and Frank Drake of Mount Dora is a director. The twelve directors plan to bring their wives and a chicken pilau supper will be served after the meeting followed by a fox hunt.
Due to the Memorial Services on Thursday the Home Economics exhibit hour has been moved from 2 30 to 3 30 to accommodate attendees.
A Florida Public Service Company pole near East Town was struck by lightning, melting sand into rootlike glass tubes up to four feet long. Poles shattered and a ground wire was thrown onto the high voltage line, sparking a fiery ground path. Dr. E. E. Strickland’s hat and shoe fragments appeared in the nearby debris from a lightning strike in 1904.
The Legion Auxili thanks all contributors to Poppy Day led by Miss Vivia Craig chairing and her girls along with Mr. and Mrs. Cowles. Phyllis Turner in Red Cross attire presented the poppy to Mayor and Mrs. Simpson. The sale totaled 42.04 dollars, nearly double last year, funds to aid locals and hospitals for disabled soldiers.
Miss Mae McCormick executive secretary of the Florida Tuberculosis and Health Association will attend the national meeting at Saranac Lake New York in June to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the first US tuberculosis sanatorium. She will display Florida publicity material from the 1934 Christmas Seal sale and materials from an April and current year early diagnosis campaign.
Word reaches that Mrs. Frank Parker was seriously burned a few days ago and Mr. Parker is painfully burned while fighting the blaze. The cause of the fire remains undetermined as the Parkers return to their summer home in Salem Massachusetts after spending winter here.
The American Legion Auxiliary plans its regular June meeting at Mrs. Jack Wilkinson's home on June 4 at 8 pm with Bert Goodman as hostess. It will be the last meeting before summer and all members are urged to attend.
Mount Dora youths head home for summer from colleges. Tallahassee F LC W students have returned. Miss Marie Slack and Miss Lois Hazel graduate. Stetson University commencement on June 3 plans for Georgia Kirby Peggy Champ and William Inram to return.
The Red Cross asks for jig saw puzzles to send to the Veterans Hospital at Lake City. About 300 puzzles have been donated to the Topic office. The notice repeats for readers who missed it last week, with leads to the Topic office or Chamber of Commerce.
A historical program outline lists Class Night events at Mount Dora High School with Scene 1 on June 1 1935 and Scene 2 in October 1935. Cast includes Lida Rech Flora Morley Winslow Waaser Katherine Killian Ruth Harvey Loyd Shoemaker Bud Wingler Lurlene Green Ossie Ginther Leta Brantley. A piano solo Variations of Old Black Joe by Barbara Blanchard. An Amateur Night at Hopcraft Place WMDH radio 1942 features Roy Christopher Elizabeth Simpson Ruth Harvey Barbara Blanchard Cecil Parker Jean Smith Helen Stewart Martha Fenn Barbara Hopcraft. Class songs are referenced but not listed.
Memorial Day services will be held this afternoon at Forest Cemetery with a parade forming at Donnelly and Fifth. At 3 o clock the march ends at the cemetery for the Union Memorial Service and a short talk by Rev. Perry James. Committees will decorate graves in Sorrento Tangerine and Seminole Springs. Businesses close for the day with groceries open until 10 a.m.
Daytona Beach hosts Cracker Day next Thursday with 2 PM horse races and 10 PM fiddlers and square dance contests. Prizes honor fastest horse best lady rider fiddler guitar team and best caller. Statewide drum corps compete for state title with Lakeland champion corps and national champions attending. General invitation extended.
A 1935 letter from Spetzer, Rorick & Co. praises Mount Dora Florida for handling finances well. It notes depositing a $1,000 6 percent bond due Oct 1, 1935 with Chase National Bank for exchange into a 20 year bond at the same rate. The firm expresses cooperation and respect for Florida's municipal credit.
The King’s Daughters society asks owners to return their wheeled chairs and crutches, citing a special need. The notice urges prompt cooperation to restore supplies for those in need.
King's Daughters held a Tuesday meeting with Mrs Charles Peffly. Attendance was good with treasurer reports and several cases receiving King's pennies aid. No special business. Social hour followed with fruit punch and brown sugar wafers. Next meeting set for June 11 at Miss Helen Merritt's home.
A Vermont cotton mill worker was nearly stripped to his underwear after oiling a shaft nut, but escaped serious injury and returned to work the next day. The editor invites readers to match or beat this curious incident.
The Hillcrest Tea Room closes Wednesday for the summer. Mrs. B J Saltsman and daughters Thelma and Maxine will stay at home on Fifth Avenue and reopen the tea room in the fall after running it there through the season.
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