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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1948
Page
2
Dora Scouts of Troop 19 under Walter Patton will conduct investiture ceremonies for East Coast and West sections of the Central Florida council this month. Eighteen members travel to Daytona Beach on Saturday for afternoon rites and a city-hosted evening reception, with further ceremonies planned for November 27 in Orlando for tenderfoots.
Three Mount Dora 4 H club members Chester Weinman David Burke and Arthur Lewis served as judges in a Webster cattle contest. Hillsborough team won first prize. Dora H club plans a winter project planting two acres of pines off 441 near the Orange County line.
The Kramer brothers Tracy and H Blair set to open Kramer s Monday on Donnelly Street in Mount Dora with a used furniture shop selling radios and home appliances. Tracy leaves his radio shop to join his brother, a former Crane employee.
State wildlife bulletin notes quail plentiful in Lake County along with deer and squirrel. turkey scarce. It suggests Brevard and St. Johns counties as better bets for Thanksgiving poultry.
Mount Dora prepares for an authentic Smorgasbord as Ivar Nielsen Urban Busch and wives take over the Grand View hotel dining room for C. E. and J. A. Hames. The Swede dining concept, brought from Secret Lakeside Lodge, signals a new culinary season with Nordic dishes and modern refinements.
Golden Triangle Enterprises, Inc plans a drive in theater south of Eustis on Bay Street opening after January 1. The project covers 400 acres with land cleared and directed by EB J Hassler Floyd Hassler and local leaders from Eustis Umatilla and Leesburg. Corporate capitalization is $50,000.
Gladys Bradford formerly of Marion Indiana has joined Alberta's Beauty Shop on Alexander Street. She is a former member of the Woman's Army Corps.
Local club confirms a change as the couple leaves the organization during the winter season and the group begins a search for new members or leadership.
Mount Dora alumni of Rollins College and Stetson University anticipate the annual Rollins Homecoming game in Orlando on November 26 when the college will meet Stetson. A full three day program of activities has been planned.
A telegram from the War Department informs Mrs. Zera Adams that her husband John H. Adams, killed in action in Germany, is being returned for burial in Mount Dora. The message arrived last Thursday.
Huff, former A and P manager, opens his own grocery on Highland Avenue last week. Mrs Huff, also a former A and P employee, joins as clerk with her husband.
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