New hardware store in Mount Dora seeks a name
The Fifth Avenue hardware shop invites public input with a naming contest. A committee of A C Quixley C J Helm and Fred McDowell will pick the winning title, with Miss Rosalie Brantley credited for a suggested name. The Grand View Hotel to host a turkey dinner on Thanksgiving day priced at 1.25, served 12 to 3 with reservations requested.
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Fifth Avenue
Messrs
A. C. Quixley
C. J. Helm
Fred McDowell
Permane Sniglle Na Abit Pew Fraser
Tosumune
Breardware Company
Rosalie Percolator
Brantley
Grand View
Dixiers
Sorrento
Estelle Marie
Clark VanDeroer
Tavares
G. W. VanDeroef
Richmond
Sorrento Baptist Church
Mount Dora City Council Candidate Promises Progress
A candidate outlines two years of service on the Mount Dora City Council, highlighting wage promotion policy, sanitation and street maintenance reorganization, phasing out gifts of city revenue, charter revision adoption, and cooperative fire protection with neighboring communities.
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Mount Dora
City Council overhauls administration to cut costs
City leaders reorganized to place administrative authority with the city clerk, reducing department overlap and avoiding a tax increase. Despite savings, opposition notes loss of grants and lingering loans. The move aims for a more responsive, economically run government, prompting the president not to seek re election.
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Seeeeaere
Dean van
Mount Dora Hosts Busy Weekend of Sidewalk Sale and Show
Downtown Mount Dora drew large crowds during a weekend combining sidewalk sale and antique show with wide smiles from shoppers and merchants. Organizer Roy Christopher notes the American Power Boat Association sanctioned Lake Dora races as part of a regional circuit, expected in late February. Three local restaurants were among early developments this week.
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Mount Dora
Roy Christopher
American Power Boat Association
Lake Dora
Miami-St. Petersburg
Squires Hope Restaurant Named Mount Dora Caterer
The Mount Dora Community Building will lose its city subsidy as Sylvia Cook retires this year and private enterprise steps in. Squires Hope Restaurant has been chosen as the new caterer. Alisa Beth is set to return home from the hospital Friday after a fall left her with a broken leg and a five week recovery ahead.
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Mount Dora
W. D. Patton
Margaret Lafroos
David Bowen
Win Clark
Park Commission
Little Theatre
11Th Avenue
Sylvia Cook
Mrs. Cook
Squires Hope Restaurant
Alisa Beth
Mount Dora Library Opens in New Quarters
The Mount Dora Library board celebrates a timely opening of the new quarters. Edythe Wald and Jean Sams led the move with help from many volunteers, including Al Hlavac and Lou Gippert, while Mount Dora Public Works provided trucks and labor. Special thanks go to the Friends of the Library and Founders Circle for the celebration and to WGTW for broadcast coverage.
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Mount Dora High School
Topic
WGTW
Leesburg Cablevision
WLCO
Jeannie Frisby
Mount Dora
Edythe Wald
Jean Sams
al Hlavac
Lou Gippert
Judy Oglesby
Dorothy Pelton
Louise Hummel
Mary Ritchie
Jeanette Sams
Jacqueline Bullock
Bookracks
Carl Brookhauser
Gordon Dat
Dolly Gates
Broder Petersen
Kay Underhill
Joe Burgess
Janet Cudlipp
Swann Grogs
Kate Todd
Circle and the Men’s Garden Club
Tack Kaufman
St Imp
Funeral directors warn against alarming sales device in Lake County
Lake County funeral directors urge caution over a device claimed to replace vaults and caskets. They warn of restricted service choices, nonrefundable terms, and possible out of town arrangements. They promote choosing trusted funeral directors and prepay options with full refunds and interest. Names of local funeral homes and directors are listed.
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Lake County
Funeral Service Trust
Lake County Funeral
Arthur P. Hilbish
Beyers Funeral Homes
Hamlin and Hilbish Funeral Directors, Inc
Harden Funeral Home
Kurfiss Funeral Homes _ Page-Theus Funeral Home
Rehbaum-Harden Funeral Home
Steverson Funeral Home
Save old library park Mount Dora residents protest sale
A Mount Dora citizen petitions to place on the ballot a plan to sell a park for a parking lot after the council refused the idea. The author urges residents to sign petitions and asserts city property should belong to citizens, not the park board or council.
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Mount Dora
Park Board
Mount Dora Council Backs Licenses and Population Report
Mount Dora City Council approved a SRX liquor license for Lee's Country Pub at Grand View Hotel. The city clerk reported Mount Dora population 6 023 as of July 1 1977, with a year over year rise and a revised method inflating figures. The FMUA hired Horne Rhodes Jaffry Stevens Bryant Horne and Chapman to represent Mount Dora before the PSC on municipal utility rates. A traffic signal project at Fifth Avenue and Highland Street was approved with the Department of Transportation due to rising accidents and pedestrian risk.
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SRX
Maruice
Lee Gahagan
Lee’s Country Pub
Grand View Hotel
University of Florida
Mount Dora
Florida
Topic Announced Subscription Rate Increases
The Topic will raise subscription rates effective December 1 for Lake County addresses to 6.00 yearly or 11.00 for two years and 7.50 yearly or 14.00 for two years for other destinations. Existing subscribers may renew at old rates through December 1. The single-copy price remains 15 cents.
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Alfred Hathaway
Gowen
Anna Battle
Wayside
E. S. Platt
West Fifth Avenue
Mount Dora
P. O. Box
Florida
Lake County
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David Burr
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Willard Wadsworth
Mount Bora
A.M. Liveright
Liveright
Mount Dora Art League
Phyllis Dobay
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