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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1937
Page
7
The piece urges loyalty, cooperation, and school spirit as essential values in learning and life. It notes dishonesty harms both school and business, and highlights grants and gifts from Mrs. Keller and Mrs. J. P. Laughlin, plus a fund by Mrs. Walter H. Rush to award top history students in several local high schools.
Miss Vivia Craig of Dade City is highlighted for a long teaching career spanning twelve years in high school settings including Mount Dora. A Florida State College for Women graduate with an A B in Education she teaches Latin I and I seventh and eighth grade English and health. She has coached girls diamondball and basketball for three years and values athletics as her hobby.
Miss Mary Frances Pemberton, born in Lawrenceville Georgia, grew up in several towns before settling in Clermont. She studied music at Florida State College for Women Tallahassee, taught on the college faculty, and now teaches music in Mount Dora. Her glee club will stage College Daze on December 10 at the Immunity Building. She plans a Master’s at Northwestern in about two years. She is five feet four, 110 pounds, with light brown hair and hazel eyes and a sunny disposition.
Helen Meadows born in Vidalia Georgia lived there eight years. She has four brothers in her family circle. The narrative notes her early life in the fifth grade.
Miss Meadows moved to Umatilla after high school, studied home economics at Florida State College for Women in Tallahassee, and now teaches seventh to ninth grade home economics, general science, and bios. She began teaching in 1934 at Mount Dora and has coached junior girls basketball for three years. Her notable life experiences include a 600 mile motorcycle trip and a five day hike in Carolina mountains where she encountered rattlesnakes. Her summers are spent at Tallahassee attending summer school and she hobbies dogs and ships.
An October 28 assembly in the high school auditorium featured the orchestra performing Valse Antonette and Claudine Waltz. Local lawyer W M Red Kennedy spoke on Safe and Sane Living, stressing clean habits of mind and heart and warning that drinking and stealing erode self respect. He shared stories and closed with a poem about a poor boy who lived a clean life.
The P T A Hallowe en Carnival opened with a parade in the business district on November 1. Prizes were awarded for prettiness and originality, with a skit program, impersonations, songs, and a Big Brown Bear song. Games, refreshment stands, and a street dance closed the social evening, thanked by carnival chairman Mr Ezzard and organizers.
The Mount Dora High School Glee Club directed by Miss Pemberton presents College Daze, an operetta, on December 10 at the Community Building. The two act show features a large cast including Bob Burk Spencer Tom McCabe and major roles such as Mrs Jenkins Ossie Ginther and Governor Thompson. Rehearsals began November 1 with sixty to eighty students in the program.
The Town Council on November 2 1937 ordered removal of listed residents from the Mount Dora Registration Roll. Names may be restored by December 11 1937 with evidence that removal was erroneous, presented to the Registration Officer.
Proposed ordinance states each Mount Dora Town Council member receives five dollars for every regular meeting attended with no pay for absences. Effective date is the second Tuesday in January 1938 after passage and mayoral approval. The measure, initial reading completed November 2 1937, will be reheard December 7 1987 at 7 30 PM with objections heard.
Under a 1937 Florida decree Orange County Building and Loan Association will publicly auction at the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares the parcels Lot 1 and 31, Block A Morningside Park Montverde, described in Plat Book 6 Page 34. Special Master Walton B. Hunter. Giles & Gurney Attorneys.
James Simpson holder of Tax Certificate No. 958 filed for tax deed on Gov lots 4 and 7 in Section 8 Township 19 South Range 27 East 46.03 acres in Lake County Florida. Original assessment in name of S. I. Yoder. Property to be sold at courthouse door December 6, 1937 if not redeemed. Dated October 19, 1937. Clerk: Geo. J. Dykes by A J Harnage.
Administratrix C. T. A. Anna M. B. Koster of John E. Sewell deceased files Final Report and Petition for Final Discharge in Lake County Florida before County Judge A. S. Herlong Jr. on the 6th day of January 1937. Blackwell and Walker, attorneys, Miami.
Electric cooking on the new 1937 Westinghouse Electric Ranges has proved a sensation. People must see and taste foods cooked on the Westinghouse to believe how justified the praise is.
Mount Dora hardware store marks 22 years of steady growth as local customers rely on its tools, supplies, and service. The business highlights continued community support and plans future expansion.
The Town of Mount Dora will hold its General Town Election at City Hall on December 14 1937. Offices up for election include Mayor Town Clerk Tax Collector Treasurer four Councilmen two Park Commissioners and one Board of Elections member. Petitions with twenty five qualified electors must be filed at the Town Clerk’s office at least twenty days before election. Polls open 8 a m to sundown. Voters must pay poll taxes for 1935 1936 by December 4 1937 noon. Registration open now at Town Clerk’s office until 12 noon Saturday before election.
Carl EB Henderson seeks to sell Tax Certificate No. 888 from 1930 for unpaid state and county taxes 1929 1937 on a Lake County Florida parcel described as N616 ft of E990 ft of NE quarter of Section 34 Town 21 South Range 26 East. Sale to highest bidder for cash at the Court House door in Tavares on November 22 1837 at 11 AM.
Co C Matthews, holder of part Tax Certificate No 1216 issued September 7 1931, has filed for a tax deed. The certificate covers the NEY of SEY of NW in Section 33 Township 19 South Range 27 East, Lake County Florida.
Court notices warn that properties described in tax certificates held by W.P. Sartain Maggie Sartain Harold D Overhiser Pearl Overhiser and others may be sold to the highest bidder at the Lake County courthouse on the first Monday in December 1937. Dated October 12 and October 18 1937. Also guidance on Florida red scale control for citrus trees using laundry soap spray.
Autumn roselle blooms yield red calyces for jelly and sauce. Harvest three weeks after bloom, process juice with water, boil ten minutes, then sugar to taste. Roselle jelly should not overcook. serve cold for roast dinners or with grapefruit and citrus as a colorful appetizer. Rhubarb in Florida must be planted in fall and harvested in spring.
The Florida Agricultural Experiment Station's herbarium received 1 059 sheets from the New York Botanical Garden. Dr John K Small donated the collection, contributing about one third of Florida’s flowering plant species with 3 514 known in the state. Erdman West and Miss Lillian Arnold oversee a total of 60 000 plant specimens.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce offers full information on Central Florida events and invites the public to call 122 in Tavares. Rollins College Winter Park hosts events from November 5 to June 1, with hours for Bok Tower concerts also on file.
The Florida Grower for November features a striking image of Howey-in-the-Hills in Lake County showing a paved highway and groves along the road. The photograph was supplied by the Lake County Chamber of Commerce. The caption advises drivers to use more horse sense and less horsepower.
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