Mount Dora Flourishes With Winter Attractions
Mount Dora promotes a full winter program of sports and leisure with a recreation center at Donnelly Park and lawn bowling at Lakeside Park. The city offers tennis, croquet, gambling and athletic fields, a Yacht Club on Lake Dora, two golf courses, a 1929 Community Building, and abundant fishing and hunting opportunities for visiting guests.
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Mount Dora
Donnelly Park
America
Lakeside Park
Lake Dora
Lake County
Ands
Resignation of Dr Lambert from Mount Dora Church
Dr. Lambert resigns as pastor of Virginia Avenue Baptist Church Mount Dora effective November 15 after two years in Florida. He will preach a farewell sermon November 11 then depart for Kentucky with Mrs Lambert. The couple contributed to a fully organized Sunday school and active auxiliaries as Mrs Lambert led statewide Sunday school campaigns. They will lead a growing Parkland area Louisville church with about 867 members and a near thousand in Sunday school.
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Virginia Avenue Baptist Church
Kentucky
Lambert
Mount Dora
Louisville
Parkland
Baptist Theological Seminary
Destructive Moth Threatens Local Oleanders
A specimen of a destructive moth and its egg on an oleander leaf is shown as the culprit. Mrs. Zell urges residents to destroy any moths seen to save the hardy shrubs which have suffered damage. Caterpillars have formed cocoons and are being watched closely.
Community Armistice Day Vesper Service Planned
A community vesper service will be held at the Community Auditorium Sunday afternoon from 4 to 5 o'clock. Churches join with the Parent Teacher Association to honor Education Week and Book Week with Dr. A. M. Brodie as speaker on Parents Responsibility for the Education of Children. He is pastor of the Congregational church and ex Near East Relief worker. Music by Mrs. Esther Wyatt and the First Methodist Choir, led by Dr. A. A. Stanley, with Perry B. James presiding. Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts will act as ushers.
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Parent Teacher Association
A. M. Brodie
Brodie
Congregational Church
Near East Relief
Washington
Esther Wyatt
Spirit of God
Neidlinger
First Methodist Church
A. A. Stanley
Perry B. James
Parent-Teacher Association
Tly
Witel
Ku Klux Klan
Donnelly
Donelly
Fifth
Alexander
Hallowe’en
Curtis Jackson
Charles Wilkinson
Mickey Mouse
Fifth Avenue
Association
Welfare Committee
Gerald Hurlburt
Frank Burkart
Honor Roll by Grade With Pupils Named
The list shows each grade level with its top students and percentages. First grade has Alfred Dixon et al achieving 24 percent. second grade 27 percent. third grade 19 percent. fourth grade 22 percent. fifth grade 30 percent. sixth grade 33 percent, with named students across grades.
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Alfred Dixon
Tommy Kelly
Josephine Lanier
Dwight Mosteller
J. L. Redd
Ruth Shipes
Wilma Thompson
Charles Wilkinson
John Coffin
Montine Dollar
Sarah Dooley
Betty Jean Flemming
Joan Goddard
Charles Javens
Joan Merrick
Faye Shipes
Wesley Wilder
Virginia
Childers
Gladys
Irene Crane
Harold Greene
Grace Lee
Jackie
George Backus
Rita Daniels
Joann French
Maurece Glass
Lloyd Greene
Winifred Harding
Betsy Kramer
Iris Moon
Sheila Spilky
Edwin Thomas
Dr Dickson Receives Exhibit Certificate for Grapes
Dr R W Dickson received an exhibitor's certificate from the Florida Exhibit Century of Progress for a bunch of grapes from his Lake county vineyards sent for exhibition. The certificate bears the Florida Exhibit seal and signatures of Governor David Sholtz, the Florida State Chamber of Commerce president, Lorenzo A Wilson, Florida World's Fair Commission chairman, and E M Brown, Florida Exhibit manager.
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R. W. Dickson
Florida
Century of Progress
Lake County
David Sholtz
Florida State Chamber of Commerce
Lorenzo A. Wilson
Florida World’s Fair Commission
E M. Brown
Marie Slack Becomes Senior at Florida State College for Women
Miss Marie O Slack of Mount Dora joined 241 fellow seniors in Tallahassee as Florida State College for Women held the investiture ceremony in the college auditorium. Dr Edward Conradi, the college president, placed mortar boards on each senior’s head marking their commencement attire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie O. Slack
Mount Dora
Florida State College For Women
Tallahassee
Edward Conradi
Kiwanis Club News Highlights Meeting Speakers and Visits
The Kiwanis program features Dr. A. M. Brodie as speaker with last year’s attendees urged to return. Clermont Kiwanis joined Mount Dora for an inter-club program with music by harmonica and piano and a talk on Education by Dr. Fleishman during Education Week. Clermont guests include multiple members from New Albany Indiana and local visitors J. O. Bowman and Mrs. Esther Wyatt. Fletcher Crane won the attendance prize. Mount Dora Kiwanis will visit Eustis Rotary on the 23rd for another inter-club meeting.
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Kiwanis
A. M. Brodie
Brodie
Clermont Kiwanis
Mount Dora
Fleishman
Clermont
Kiwanians
M. H. Knight
J. N. Ingram
C.C. Mooner
T. Takahashi
S. H. Bowman
Geo. C. Westbrook
A. O. Hawkins
W. B. Chesterfield
R. W. Simms
Carl Kindréd
Geo. Everett Lytt
J. Russell Wheeler
E.G. Winston
L. S. Wheeler
Louis Gruby
C. O. Roe
E. C. Pemberton
Geo. Bartlett
A. D. Thohman
H. C. Brown
C. C. Higby
O. K. Kapp
John C. Lochner
Frank Morris
New Albany
Ind
J. O. Bowman
Esther Wyatt
Fletcher Crane
S. S.sader
Mount Dora Kiwanis
Eustis
Stores Close Monday for Armistice Day
As Armistice Day comes on Sunday all stores have agreed to close on Monday the nineteenth. Shopping Saturday will be busy with stores not opening until Tuesday, so plan accordingly.
Local bank reports surge in savings accounts growth
The First National Bank announced a significant rise in savings deposits through the latest weekly statment. Mount Dora area business activity remains strong as savings show a historic increase, praised by bank president White for its timing and scope.
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the. Bank
Closing and arrival times for mails effective Oct 29 1934
Mail closes at 7 09 p m 12 25 p m and 5 30 p m Mails arrive at 7 39 p m 12 55 p m and 2 00 p m Sunday closing 3 30 p m Arrives 2 p m A nickel isn t supposed to be as good as a dollar but it goes to church more often.
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Sunday Mail
Golden Wedding Celebration Was Colorful Event
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer M. Wentworth celebrated a two day golden wedding with eight children present for a family reunion. About 200 friends visited open house Monday afternoon as flowers cakes and cider punch adorned the scene. Mayor M W Simpson presented a civic honor, and gifts included a gold headed cane and a gold bowl ladle engraved with wedding dates 1856 1906 and 1884 1934 to pass to the next golden wedding in the family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elmer M. Wentworth
Mrs. Wentworth
Mrs
Wentworth
Cadman
Esther Cadman
Mr. Simpson
Mount Dora
Mr. Wentworth
William T. Wentworth
Fred Wentworth
Paterson
N. J
Lakeside
America the Beautiful
Gerald Hurlburt
Alfred Rehbaum
Sin
Paradise appeal drives home seekers to Mount Dora town
The Mount Dora feature extols a Florida town offering citrus beauty and balmy year round weather. It highlights the Hallowe'en parade and carnival run by the P T A with substantial proceeds for school lunches, then paints Mount Dora as a home seekers paradise with lakes, orange groves, clubs, golf courses, artesian wells, and easy access to major cities.
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Mount Dora
Lakes and Hills
Central Florida
Lake Dora
Seven Lakes
Ocklawaha
Jacksonville
Atlantic Ocean
Dora Cannal
Orange Belt
Lake County
Yacht Club
Florida Gas Comys
Lake County Country Club
Mount Plymouth Country Club
Gulf of Mexico
Atlantic Coast Line
U.S
St. Augustine
Daytona Beach
DeLand
Orlando
Bok
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Mount Dora Yacht Club
DR. Dickson
Marie Slack
Kiwanis News
Mount
Dora
Prida
Weather Report
Mount Plymouth
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