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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1937
Page
8
Mount Dora High announces Russell Grantley from Rochester PA as candidate to replace Billy McCown at quarterback. Meanwhile two players Blair Kramer and Bayard Roberts are sidelined by injuries from the Apopka game, Roberts possibly ending his season.
A collection of unsigned lines shows students or teachers typing brief exchanges. Topics range from greetings and crush talk to game prep and apologies. Notable names include Ruth, Lois, J. W., Bayard, Natalie, and others, with remarks about peanuts, traveling, and social events.
A fragment shows Virginia asserts certainty, Dorothy Gray speaks of expectation, and Dorothy White recalls a missed or unknown Monday date, hinting at a personal row or social plan. The sparse dialogue hints at a possible relationship triangle without full context.
The junior class reports a successful candy peanut and drink sale at the Apopka Mount Dora game Friday the 29th with a profit of 4.50. No progress on the annual class play yet as prospective characters read the script. Three members Donald Strickland W T Treadwell and Albert Dahlke have quit school.
Ninth grade reporters relay campus chatter about Arch ie Tucker Grace Conant James Aahas and Betty White at the football game in Eustis Iris Moon seen with W F Duggan at the carnival Bruggs Kennedy teaches algebra and Latin in the library two students red faced in study hall Bus ter Battle and Jean Shipes quarrel over a late study session Betsy Kramer and Tommy Shipes reportedly split Tommy seen with Betty Beerhower Castle a popular hangout for freshmen
A note on romances and reunions from the eighth grade mentions June Fenn and Elmer Youngblood seen together at the carnival Monday night. A Sunday school party took place Saturday night at Mrs Burkart's. It seems that it took Bernard.
Fragments suggest chatter about Geraldine Richardson pursuing Bernard McCabe from Libby Drawdy. Thomas Scott plans to leave Mount Dora schools on the east coast. Kaewes occupies Libby Drawdy’s time, while class reporter Matt Williamson has resigned.
A humorous college gossip column notes social buzz around students and couples. It mentions Dedrick visiting Leesburg for a red headed reason and various campus romances, crushes, and whispered rumors involving Russell G. Bayard, Esther, Cyril Hopcraft, and others. The item reads as playful, tabloid style chatter about senior and junior interactions and school events.
A guide advises treating grass webworms with a mixture of one pound arsenate of lead and eight pounds hydrated lime. Mix thoroughly and dust infested lawns lightly with a hand duster. If rain falls within a day or two after dusting, repeat the application.
In wintering beef cattle, livestock men must obtain feed that is affordable while supplying the necessary nutrients to sustain the herd through the cold season. The challenge lies in balancing cost with nutritional adequacy to maintain weight and health.
Congressman Joe Hendricks summarizes the push to balance the budget without raising taxes while warning against excessive cuts. He explains delays in old age assistance due to filing order and workload. He also discusses the Mediterranean fruit fly bill, soil conservation, and county 4-H activities with local leaders and projects ahead of January’s county fair.
The Montverde School announces modernization with an all electric dishwashing unit, new visual educational gear costing over 500 dollars, and a projector with loudspeaker and phonograph. Alumni funds to install steel windows and lighting updates improved the dining area while efforts to year-round use continue. A 1937-38 alumni bleacher project is planned for the athletic field.
Over the last 25 years more than 7,000,000 rural boys and girls have participated in 4H club work, a nationwide youth program focused on practical education and leadership.
The Junior Club Women of Florida announce they will sponsor a two bed ward at the Florida Tuberculosis Sanatorium ten miles northwest of Orlando. Mrs Joseph L Gray says each Junior Department member will contribute fifteen cents toward the project with about $300 expected from a statewide total of two thousand members. Funds buy adjustable beds mattresses pillows linens bedside tables chairs dressers and equipment renewing annually as needed. The sanatorium near Orlando plans to open to patients in December with applications sent to county commissioners across all 67 counties. Facilities will serve men women white and colored with minimum age 16.
The fragmentary text reflects confusion and garbled phrases about thinking and music. It mentions saxophones and unclear terms, suggesting a noisy, mixed content piece with no coherent event or clear subjects.
Orlando area residents flood Lake County Chamber of Commerce with diverse asks. A man seeks help selling a home, a Winter Park woman offers crotonal seed for sale, another Orlando resident looks to lease land for watermelons, and a veteran’s widow requests pension assistance.
A historical reflection notes how women chase fashion with strict harmony among dress, hat, cosmetics, and accessories. It compares fashion dictates to extreme beauty practices in various cultures, ending with the idea that men remain entranced by such style obsessions.
Public high schools report increased enrollments in sectional education classes this year. Past data shows 1,382,000 youths and adults enrolled in trades industries home economics and vocational agriculture.
Newspapers relay Karl Lehmann, secretary of the Lake County Florida Chamber of Commerce, touring New England and New York promoting Florida tourism. Clips describe large audiences, colored slides of Florida spots, and invitations to visit or relocate for winter residence, with varied local takes from Times-Union to Brockton Enterprise.
Ten practical guidelines promote good habits for children including fair play, diet focusing on fruit and milk, thorough chewing, water intake, dental care, regular bowel movements, personal cleanliness, careful company, covering sneezes, scholastic effort, and ten hours of sleep with a tidy, cheerful environment.
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