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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1932
Page
2
The B Y P U societies of the First Baptist Church will hold a combined social and business meeting Monday evening November 7 at the church.
The Ladies Aid Society of the Community church will meet Friday in the church parlors to sew all afternoon for the upcoming sale. Please come as early as possible.
The W C T U will meet Monday November 7 at 3 pm in the Community church chapel. Echoes from the state convention at Sanford this week are expected to be discussed.
Mrs Mary McCarty entertained the Pythian Sisters sewing circle last Friday with fifteen members in attendance. Refreshments included home made cookies and grapefruit juice. The next meeting will be hosted by Mrs Eleanor Jackson on Wednesday November 2 from 2 to 5 o'clock.
Miss Marguerite Sidel and assistants hosted a Halloween party for about twenty five primary department children in the church parlors last Saturday. They enjoyed games and stunts with Lena Harding winning the pumpkin hunt prize. Refreshments of orange juice and cookies followed and each child received a lollypop.
Mrs. Owen Connor hosted a Hallowe'en party at Lake Jem for her daughters and their little friends. Children dressed in costume bobbed for apples played games and enjoyed ice cream and cake after refreshments.
At a children's party a small guest received a horn as a favor. Attending children included Eddie Fay Stokes Freddie McDowell Stella McDowell John Coffin Gladys Crane Edward Klatte Kathryn Etchells Betty Cooley and little Miss Cross.
Mrs Catherine Zittel aged ninety celebrated her birthday October 8 in Buffalo with an afternoon reception. About fifty relatives and friends called to offer wishes. She received ninety roses and dozens of chrysanthemums, lighted birthday cakes as favors, and will spend this winter in Mount Dora with her daughter Mrs William Umlauf.
Mrs. L. C. Jerne hosted a Hallowe'en party for daughter Lois in the Banks' garage on Clayton street. Fortune telling and wills writing formed the afternoon’s games with guests in costume creating a lively scene. Refreshments included punch and cookies. Attendees included Nona Mortenson Dorothy White Natalie Spilky Dorothy Gray Virginia Chapman Rosetta Vivian McClellan Jane Sharpe Nancy Connant Sara Margaret Bruner and Hazel Edwards.
Mrs Adam Hazelwood entertained at her First avenue home on Friday afternoon in honor of Mrs F W Eastman of Fond du Lac Wisconsin visiting several weeks at Villa Dora. Flowers decorated the rooms lavishly and prizes were bouquets of roses won by Mrs Watson and Mrs Schumacher with a guest prize to Mrs Eastman. Refreshments were served among a small group including Mrs Eastman Mrs D T Johnson Mrs Watson Mrs Clinton Childs Mrs E L Schumacher Mrs Gottier Mrs Clara Palmer of Eustis and Mrs J J Alvord of Mount Dora.
The M E church in DeLand will hold a two day gathering on November 9 and 10 focusing on organization and preparation. Mrs Allen a returned missionary from China will speak Wednesday evening. Thursday features a pageant by the DeLand Epworth League titled The Mass Movement in India with expected visitors from Mount Dora.
The Legion Auxiliary sponsored a Monday night benefit card party at the Community Building. Sixty attended with two tables playing five hundred and the rest bridge, Halloween decorations, pumpkin pie and coffee, nine prizes plus a door prize. Winners included Mrs. C. J. Helms and others. door prize oil painting went to Mr. Lovett of Leesburg.
Mr and Mrs Fletcher Crane hosted a novel Hallowe en treasure hunt with clues around town ending at the Crane home where a ghost directed dig for the cache. Guests in pirate costumes enjoyed supper dancing and games led by Mrs Crane with forfeits for misses.
Mrs A E Bell and Mrs Evelyn Mc Dowell join Mrs Fred MacMahon Mrs Hope Merrick and Mr Richard Eddy in a social or committee roster as listed in the column.
A crowded Mount Dora social scene with Mrs. A A Cooper returning from New York and numerous visitors from New Bedford, Jacksonville, Lake land, and Ohio arriving or staying for the winter. Families including the Blakes, Adams, Carpenters, Hurlburt, Truskett, Eddy, and others are noted visiting, relocating, or settling into winter homes and local hotels.
Relatives and friends in Philadelphia gather for a night event. Several families plan winter stays in Mount Dora with moves between McDonald Street and Ninth Avenue. Attendance includes Miss Anne Elisabeth Webb and Mr. Thomas Jefferson Knox at a Knoxville wedding November 10. Abby Jo Simpson helped with a committee for a Cambridge Boston University event after a student play.
Notice of sale by Special Master Ogers Wells in Chancery for First National Bank of Mount Dora against Wallace M Pike and Car Curtis. At Tavares Lake County Florida the sale on November 7 1932 will list extensive automotive tools machinery and related items to be sold for cash to highest bidder.
The Lake County Groves Corporation property in multiple sections in Township 19 South is to be sold at public auction by the sheriff on November 7, 1932 at the Circuit Court House in Tavares Florida between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. The sale is to be cash in hand to the highest bidder.
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