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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1929
Page
4
A park beautification fundraiser will be held at the Villa Dora Hotel on Friday November 22 at 2 30. Bridge and five hundred will be played with tickets at fifty cents. Prizes go to high and low scores. Proceeds buy flowering plants for park borders at about $1 per hundred. 3000 plants may be needed for the walks.
The Mount Dora School pupils of grades four to six present a group of Thanksgiving plays in the High School auditorium on Tuesday evening November 26. The shows include A Thanksgiving Dream The Harvest Thanksgiving and The Mysterious Thanksgiving Guest. Proceeds go to buy books for the school library.
The Woman's Club will hold a full day meeting at the Congregational church on Tuesday November 26 to sew for the children of the Jacksonville Home. The article also lists numerous seasonal arrivals from across the U S including G E Ganin from Mount Kisco NY and several families spending the winter in Mount Dora.
Residents arrive for the winter season in Mount Dora with visitors from St Petersburg Tampa and Miami. Junior clubs form across Lake County with plans for canning exhibits flower shows and a county contest set for January 1930. The Congregational church hosts a sewing bee for Jacksonville's Children’s Home and church services continue with notices for local churches and demonstrations.
D B Spencer Pastor leads Sunday School at 10 a m and Morning Worship at 11 a m The Christian Endeavor Society meets at 7 p m November 24 with the theme Through Thanksgiving A Union Thanksgiving service is planned November 28 at 7 30 p m at the M E Church Friday November 29 the Ladies Aid Society will meet at the church parlors at 2 30 p m
Sunday school at 10:00 a m and classes for all ages. Sermon at 11:00 by the pastor with Epworth League at 6:30 and an evening sermon at 7:30. Junior League Monday at 4:00. Mid week service Wednesday evening at 7:30. Union Thanksgiving services planned for Thanksgiving evening at 7:30 with Dr Spencer or Rev Montgomery preaching in pastor’s absence. An offering for Children’s Home Jacksonville. James H Elder pastor.
Sunday School at 9 45 a m. worship at 11 a m and 7 30 p m led by the pastor with preaching at each service.
A faggot breaks into sudden light on the hearth as a cricket in the corner calls. The poem shifts to a slow deepening silence, capturing a quiet night scene with a moment of flickering warmth.
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Terry of White River VI guest of Charles and Miss Doubleday last week and stay for the winter in DeLand. Mr. and Mrs. Charles T. Scott of Maine occupy the Estey bungalow for the season. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Howard, Mrs. Inez Unger and Richard Everson spent Tuesday at Silver Springs. Miss Patch Clark and George Clark of Wyandotte Michigan arrived.
Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Gay of Tyson Vermont were weekend guests of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gay before traveling to St. Cloud. Charles H. and spouse arrived Tuesday from Vermont where they spent the summer. The Sanitarium opens for the season with some patients. Church services are discontinued due to the pastor Dr Marsh’s illness.
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