Notes On Our Men In Service Chapel Dedication Details
The article describes a chapel in a military setting with a sun set sign and service schedule. Chaplain Cooper, born near Harrisburg and educated at Northwestern and the Garrett Biblical Institute, is featured with prior pastorates and a family in Ishpeming Michigan. Other service members, LT A Lee French Jr, T4 Horace Greely Adams, Warren L Story Jr, and Harold Durden are named with brief updates on postings, leave, and medical discharges plus a father’s illness in Eustis Florida and Mount Dora connections.
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Our Faith
Cooper
Camp Hill
Harrisburg
Penna
Leola
Nois Institute of Technology
Chicago
Garrell Biblical Institute
Evanston
Illinois
Northwestern University
Methodist Church
Temple Methodist Church
Hollywood
Florida
Cha Hap. Cooper
Mount Dora
Sharlotte
Paul
Ishpeming, Michigan
Horace Greely Adams
A S Truman Hill Royal
Sorrento
Lake County
Florida urged to save fats for war needs
Citizens are asked to collect used fats from every kitchen to support war production. The call highlights fats as essential for medicines explosives parachutes synthetic rubber soaps paints fabrics and other battlefield and home front needs. Spare fats should be placed in cans for reuse.
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Florida
East Town Church Activities Celebrate Faith and Service
East Town reports lively church life with Rev. R. J. Boone guest preaching at St Marys Baptist School and Pallbearers Society No 2 anniversary at Mt Olive A M E Church. Special Drive and Loving Home Band appeal for dues and burial fund while members join bands and attend Sunday School B T U conventions. Sickness includes Bro Fred Price and son. Mattie Gamble improves. Pearl Harbor War Bond appeal persists.
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East Town
St. Mary’s Baptist
R. J. Boone
R. H. Harris
Mt. Olive A.M.E
Pallbearers Society No. 2
Mer Jordan
Loving Home Band
Pallbearers Society
Gentle Band Association
Tor
A. L. Russell
Brother
John Torrence
Tangerine
Fred Price
Fred Senior
Fred Junior
Orlando
Eustis
Mattie Gamble
Pearl Harbor
T. M. Thomas
County Officials Set Sale Of Surplus Fair Equipment
Lake County surplus equipment to be sold after Army returns grounds and buildings of the Lake County Fair Association at Eustis. A committee including L. L. Polk, R. E. Norris, and Ralph Arey prepared an itemized list with prices to favor buyers from the county, preventing resale by speculators. An advertisement will publish the list next week with sale date and time.
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Lake County Fair Association
Eustis
L. L. Polk
The
Fair Association
R. E. Norris
Ralph Arey
Karl Lehmann
Lake County Aims to Lead State in E Bond Sales
Lake County tops the state in Seventh War Loan E Bond sales and may become the first county to meet its quota. Officials urge quick action to finish the campaign and fulfill the goal.
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Lake County
Educator Dr. Plummer Dies. longtime Northampton principal
Death ends a career spanning Maine and Massachusetts education roles including principalships from 1918 to 1937 in Northampton and a Smith College teaching stint. He helped found the Northampton Rotary Club, belonged to Masons and Odd Fellows, enjoyed entomology and philately, and counted President Coolidge as a friend. Survived by widow Nellie E. Norwell, son Thomas F. Plummer, daughter Mrs. Ray Fessenden, six grandchildren, two sisters and a brother.
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Calvin
Conn
Ray Fessenden
Athol
Mass
Albert E. Como
Edgar Titcomb
William Plummer
Auburn
Here's Your Infantry to Tour Leesburg Gardens Ballpark
The Army's major public presentation Here's Your Infantry comes to Leesburg Tuesday night June 12 at Venetian Gardens in Leesburg. Sponsored by Company A of the State Guard for the Seventh War Loan, the show unfolds in three phases with a live infantry display, a jungle assault on a pillbox, and an exhibit of weapons and equipment with expert explanations and War Bond stats. Tickets and access are limited to War Bond purchasers through local chairmen in Lake County.
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Orlando
Venetian Gardens
Leesburg
George H. Rast
State OF
Florida
Ella Scott Owens
Birmingham
Alabama
Ella
Scott Owens
A. D
Mount Dora
Lake County
Geo. J. Dykes
Grace H. Cox
D. C
Thomas HI. Cooley
Mary Bolbes
Mary Boles
Thomas H. P Attorney
County Chamber of Commerce Memberships Exceed 1944
Membership Chairman O B Smith of Lake County Chamber reports 1945 dues surpass 1944 record with more individual members. The article notes rising support and funds to aid the chamber’s goals, including a backlog of men and money for when Secretary Lehmann returns.
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O. B. Smith
Lake County Chamber of Commerce
Lehmann
of the County Chamber
Reenbeenie Ues
Buy a War Bond Girls Rally to Free Mothers
Two sorority sisters Gilda and Thelma Klevit in mu chapter of Psi Lambda Tau at Central School launch a War Bond drive. They offer to care for babies while parents buy bonds, citing prior sororities and fraternities performing chores in exchange for purchases.
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Washington, D. C
Psi Lambda Tau Sorority
Central School
Gilda
Thelma Kleiit
Klevit
Baby
Pop
Mom
Wait at home for your returning soldier
Colonel H. G. Williams warns wives and relatives not to seek out returning soldiers at Atlantic ports or reception stations. He explains soldiers are routed through staging areas and home-bound trains within 48 hours, with tickets and meals provided, and that visiting would delay their return home. Stay home to avoid rail congestion and hotel shortages.
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Atlantic
H. G. Williams
Fourth Service Command
Pacific
Williams
Colonel Williams
$300 000 Forestry Research Centers Funded in South
Senator Pepper and Congressman Hendricks pushed a Southern driven plan resulting in a $300,000 appropriation to establish ten forestry research centers across the South. The budget, endorsed by the 12 State Forest Farmers Association led by Colin P. Kelly, followed a failed House subcommittee request for $927,000 for 21 experimental forests. The Senate subcommittee amended the bill to include the $300,000 for sites in Florida Georgia Arkansas Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Alabama Texas Virginia and others amid sharp House debate.
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Pepper
Hendricks
Florida
South
Forest Farmers Association
Southern Timber Land Owners
Colin P. Kelly
Madison
House Agricultural Appropriations Subcommittee
Senate
Russell
Georgia
Olustee
Hitchiti
Round Oak
Crossett
Arkansas
Delta
Stoneville
Mississippi
Bent Creek
Asheville
North Carolina
Santee
Witherbee
South Carolina
Harrison, Saucier
Alabama
Texas
Virginia
House
Return of Soldiers Limits Facilities For Civilian Travel
Army plans to move thousands of troops from Pacific theaters via designated reception and assembly stations across the Southeast and South. Special Pullman trains, meal and ticket allowances will cover temporary duty travel home. Soldiers may visit relatives outside their home towns at personal expense, adding to rail load. Designated reception stations include Fort McPherson, Camp Blanding, Camp Gordon, Fort Bragg, and Camp Shelby. Assembly sites include Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Camp McCain, Fort Jackson, Camp Rucker, Camp Stewart, Camp Butner, Camp Gordon, Camp Mackall, Camp Shelby, and Camp Van Dorn.
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Lee
Accee Seidense
Williams
Pacific
Atlantic
Middle Atlantic
Army
Colonel Williams
Col. Williams
Fort McPherson
Camp, Blanding
Fla
Camp Gordon
More and Bigger Bass Possible in Lake County
Ormund Powers profiles Lake County’s potential for higher fish yields through fertilization and water management. Dr. Verne Davidson and associates meet with Lake County Soil Conservation district leaders to discuss boosting bass and bream populations, balancing species, and achieving 400 to 600 pounds of fish per acre with proper fertilization.
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Lake County
Ormund Powers
Orlando Morning Sentinel
Powers
Verne Davidson
Spartanburg
S. C
Soil Conservation Service
J. C. Rogers
Lake County Soil. Conservation District Board of Supervisors
Davidson
Future Farmers of America
Roosevelt’s Appeal for 7th War Loan
President Franklin D. Roosevelt urges Americans to invest in the 7th War Loan totaling 14 billion dollars while stressing production and bond purchases as essential to victory. He notes that over the past three years 85 million Americans have invested in bonds, linking home front effort to military success.
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Washington, D. C
Franklin D. Roe
Liung
Local conservation officials named in Florida notes
Shafer, work unit conservationist at Tavares, H. B. Helms assistant state conservationist, Gainesville, J. C. Rogers, Leesburg.
Army chaplains not being returned to civilian churches
Chaplain (Colonel) Ralph W. Rogers says former Southeast pastors who joined the Army remain with their units until the war ends. He notes Japan must be defeated before peace and many units will return to the U.S. briefly, then head to the Pacific. He emphasizes a shortage of chaplains and urges clergy to enlist.
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Southeast
Ralph W. Rogers
Fourth Service Command
Rogers
Germany
Japan
United States
Oer Ig
Pacific
Lake County Hyacinth Plan to Clear Waterways
A meeting of Lake and Orange County officials and bankers on May 16 formed the Central Florida Hyacinth Control Committee to remove water hyacinths from lakes canals and streams in Lake County and central Florida. The group urged navigation protection fish habitat mosquito control and outdoor recreation, and tasked H K Stokes to assemble methods and costs while asking Army Engineers to survey central Florida.
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Lake County
Citiens
Orange County
Winter Garden
Central Florida
E. D. Cook
Frank E. Owens
Ralph Arey
Lake Cony
H. K. Stokes
Clermont
Army Engineers
Florida
Mt Dora Seeks Tax Deed For 1932 Certificate
Town of Mt Dora holder of Tax Certificate No 2402 issued August 1 1932 has filed for a tax deed. Certificate covers property in Lake County Florida described as lot 18 Block D Pine Summit Mt Dora with assessment details pending.
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Mt. Dora
Lake
Florida
Pine Summit
Mt, Ora
C. R. Langley
A. D
Statelorida
Lake‘ Idlewild
B. H. Kathe
Tavares
Fla
Geo, Dyk
Circuit Court
Age County
A. J. Harnage
D. C
Do. R. Langley
Lake Idlewild
Lake Co. Land
Court House
GEQ
J. Dykes
Circuit Court of
Lake County
W. Donald Conkling
Donald Conkling
Mount Dora
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Burton’s Garage Automotive Repairing
A. Lee French, Jr
England
Trinidad
Palm Beach
Warren L. Story, Jr
Camp Gordon Johnston
Warren
Harold Durden
U. S. Naval Training Base
Little Creek
R. C. Durden
Mr. Durden
Harold
Ull
O Gdar
Crane Furniture Co
F. W. Plummer
County C. OF C
Roosevelt
Mr.roosevelt
Homer Morris
Texaco
Jimmie’s
U. D
Jimmie) Hardeater
DELCO
U. S. Highway 441
J. FE
Geo. Loyers
Fake County
Florian
Fifth Judicial Circuit
State OF Florida
Eugene O. Owens
Os Ella Scott Owens
Fiftia
Judicial Circuit
Lake Court
Ghaeewa
Cuffie Ake
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