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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1946
Page
2
Eustis Furniture lists a wide array of home furnishings and decorative items with prices, from walnut desks and vanity mirrors to folding beds, cedar chests, radios, sewing tables, and kitchen chairs. The ad promotes a Christmas Lay Away Club with easy weekly payments and invites visitors to shop at low prices without obligation.
The article reflects on fair play in sports and life, noting an age limit of nineteen for high school players set by an Athletic Association. It recounts an evening program featuring a skit Phonetic Cure and a final verdict scene, with performances by Horace Adams, Kilroy shout, and a duet Oh Susanna.
In a November assembly Sue Bond earned an Honor able Mention Scholastic Achievement Certificate from Business Education World for solving September's bookkeeping contest problem. About 3,000 students from 36 states and several Canadian provinces competed. The event highlighted Sue as the first such award at M. D. H. S. The program also showed films on meat cooking by Armour with Marie Gifford and a basketball themed piece promoting teamwork and new techniques for the upcoming season.
Groveland's strong backfield and tough line overwhelmed Mount Dora as the Green backs chalked up their seventh Florida Conference win, 25 to 0, despite key absences. Mount Dora fought hard with a full lineup including Ledford and Hamlin in a spirited loss at home.
M D H S extends a hearty welcome to new pupils including Betty Smith from Eustis and Frank Meade of Michigan. Bill Bland returns from North Carolina as Armistice Day draws many students out of town. Weekend visitors travel to Ana Maria Beach Lake Wales and Silver Springs while 4H girls sell orange juice to support projects. Junior rings and pins ordered with delivery planned in February.
Fragmentary local note describes a chaotic scene around a December 6 evening at 7 45 p m with jokes about a football squad and a senior making a remark during a class gathering. A quoted nickname Inner Willie appears and attendees struggled with an argument during the event.
The clipping recalls Roy Dutton's surrender and Marion R. proves it can be done. Lucille attracts admirers while Bill Hawkins wins her heart. Nell Lois and Jackie Norris are social dates for the month as Howard and Maryann B. pursue blondes. Coole hints at someone from Ocala and B Jay is linked to Mary B. from Eustis as talk swirls over blondes or redheads.
The library saw more than 7 000 items checked out this summer, including 1 283 children's books. About fifty children enrolled in the summer reading club.
Clermont Hilltoppers opened the season with a 26 6 victory against Mount Dora on the Mount Dora athletic field. Mount Dora scored a first quarter touchdown by Turner but Clermont answered with two second quarter touchdowns and two more in the final period to secure the win.
Professor Roseborough opened the assembly on November 15 presenting the trophies won by the boys and girls basketball teams in 1946. Mr Hall and Miss Vandiver accepted them for their teams. Patty Claflin led the sophomores in initiating the freshmen with Jianne Norton as mistress of ceremonies.
The note records 116 juveniles added over the summer and a bookcase placed in the stack room plus two in the read room. It mentions minimal substances received and discusses output to the Public Library Committee.
O. W. Smith of Ware proposes plans for forestation and soil conservation at a forestry conference. The discussion centers on practical steps for reforestation and land protection.
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