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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1946
Page
5
Society members attended the initiation of Mrs. Nonnie Tucker and discussed changing meeting nights to the first and third Thursdays of each month. Sister Eve Chapman won the mask. Hostesses Norma Wise Mae Fenton and Marie Thompson served refreshments. Next meeting is June 4.
Mrs Emma Jane Tallant spends the week at Ocala visiting sister in law Blanche Bryant of Tangerine and plans a June departure for Springfield Vermont Dr and Mrs H B Hostetter of Sheridan Road Sylvan Shores leave for Traverse City. Mr R W Horsley improves after illness and returns home.
Mr and Mrs J L OHara with Mr and Mrs Fred OHara their son and daughter in law aim to visit Auburn Utica Courtland NY and Athens Pa for about six weeks starting next Monday. Eudell Sutley elected vice president of Sigma Delta Pi at Stetson University DeLand son of Rev and Mrs James A Sutley. Fletcher Crane and Miss Allene Moon left for Lamont Ohio for Gladys Irene Crane Graceland College graduation. Lawrence Maher of Boca Raton with family visited Mount Dora on way to Colorado where they will spend the summer.
Mrs Herbert W Bibber and her daughter Lillian Marie along with Mrs Lillian Banks left Samedeg by plane for Harpswell Maine to join Mr Bibber who has been there since his Army discharge. Mrs Banks will spend summers in the north and divide winters between Mount Dora and Tampa Florida where the Bibbers plan to live with Mr Bibber in business with his brother.
Elizabeth Blair Kramer will graduate Monday June 3 from Stetson University DeLand with a bachelor of arts degree. She served as president of Pi Beta Phi sorority and Blazer Club, vice president of the Student Body, and was active in the Woman's Organization and Canterbury Club.
A farmers field day will be held by the Watermelon and Grape Laboratory of the Florida Experiment Station at the Whitatt farm in Leesburg on June 21. Dr Keith Parris, in charge, announced the event featuring new melon varieties, spraying for leaf spot control, a soil treatment machine for nematode control, and discussion of superior grape rootstocks.
Mount Dora Public Library announces receipt of new fiction and non fiction works. Titles include Ilsa by Madeleine L Engle Forever Possesses by Alexander Phillips A World to Win by Upton Sinclair The Heart by Constance Beresford Theodore Dreiser r The Mayfair Squat by Pr Stewart and others Gifted volumes include Cheerful Cherub My Father s World and The River Jordan Mount Dora Public Library Committee.
The State Board of Health cautions Floridians against polio hysteria as cases rise. Dr. Wilson T. Sowder urges calm and emphasizes prevention, sanitation, and fly control while noting no epidemic in Florida. He compares polio deaths to other diseases and advises careful home isolation and physician notice for any ill child.
The Florida Waterway Congress reports from Mount Dora April 11 12 are issued by the secretary treasurer in Tavares. The six seven column pages include illustrated pictures of key groups and copies are mailed to all officers and directors with some held in reserve for new members joining soon.
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