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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1932
Page
3
Mount Dora bi monthly issue notes staff editor Helen Bartholomew and Lemuel Downs guiding Mount Dora Topic Wor 7 No. 5.
In a charity benefit match for the King's Daughters Fund, Mount Dora High School played its last game of the season. Captain Downs led a resilient effort with Gould Sadler and Alfred Neil contributing despite injuries as the senior players depart for college plans.
Mount Dora High presents its senior play this term to avoid conflicts with other class activities. The performance of Seventeen by Booth Tarkington involves a young man striving to keep up with his crowd while his parents think they do not understand him.
Homecoming featured a 6 to 0 loss for our team against Georgia Tech at the Florida stadiums on November 19. A large crowd from the football squad and town attended with limited transport, led by Ed Sadler and Frank Pooser among others, while a small group of girls rode to the game and teachers attended as able. The day did not dampen pupils’ Monday drive to study and work.
A school librarian urges students to treat library volumes as personal property and to avoid heat moisture rough handling and dog chews. He cites torn bindings incomplete pages and reads the need for responsible use to preserve books for all readers.
David Newell of Fruitland Park buys bears and plans to move north east of the county for artistic pursuits and wildlife work. G. G. Ware of Leesburg reelected as a Lake County Chamber director and a Fed Reserve officer. Rev. J. Alvin Inman will start as pastor of First Baptist in Tavares. Lake County Press meetings resume. Warfield reception at Whitney Inn.
Eighth grade debaters opened with a Science versus English clash on Tuesday November 15. Affirmative speakers were Howard Rutherford Jerry Davis and David Harvey. negative speakers Cyril Hopcraft Winslow Wasser and Lee French. Unanimous vote favored the negative with F A McNair as chairman and judges Oller Craft Tracy Kramer and L C Green. A second debate on Thursday November 17 has girls debating Home Economics versus English.
A Mount Dora High School assembly on November 23 precedes a Thanksgiving break. The article notes the U S Thanksgiving history from 1621 and Lincoln’s 1864 proclamation establishing the last Thursday, while winter arrives in the South bringing cooler days and early absences as students anticipate Christmas holidays.
Mount Dora High School expresses appreciation to Mr. Lloyd Jones for donating the Florida Times-Union to the school library. The athletic association and students extend gratitude for the contribution benefiting the school.
A Lake County roundup notes orange and grapefruit movement totals for a 98 day period, honors Leesburg citizens in the Lake Old Timers group, and recalls Judge Gaines’s long legal career. It also reports record potato yields from local growers, a syndicated feature about Lake County, and tag agency appointments for 1933 counties with new tags available after December 15.
The Stuart Typewriter Agency in Orlando offers 700 dollars for the return or information leading to the recovery of an electric calculator stolen from a car in front of the county courthouse in Ta vares during a daytime theft. No clues are available as officers investigate.
W B Gibson and C D Kirk of Leesburg spend a week at a Dixie county hunting camp seeking big game. Horses are kept at the camp with guides. Gibson notes his past as East St Louis mounted police for seventeen years as he enjoys the old sport. Florida law allows Sunday hunting per state game commission advice. Residents over 65 and under 15 and Confederate veterans are exempt from licenses, as well as Florida residents and their families on lands they own. Lake County’s Lee J Sandridge is expected back soon as Senator after a strong district showing last November. Mrs Lillian Gallivan leads Tavares residents joining the Lake County Chamber for 1938 with a $5 check. The Gallivans moved from New Jersey to Tavares last summer. Mr Gallivan died in June. The piece mentions groves and properties here and a final note about a Geo i Gockicn check from Ala.
The report cites A D Marshall of Groveland in the lumber business with mills at various points as a prominent member. and O W Smith of Astatula who runs Lake County Supply with stores in Astatula Clermont Eustis and Tavares and is quick to send in membership checks.
R D Keene of Eustis buys a 250 acre bearing grove south of Windemere in Orange county to operate as Lake Butler Groves Inc with Keene as president. Win C Sleight of Tavares leases Sylvan Shores Mount Dora property to ship fruits and supply plants and shrubs. News of Col E E Haskell s death in Oklahoma City is received with sorrow in Lake County where he owned citrus and tung holdings. Many officers seek to retire to Lake County, drawn by local appeal.
A ripe bell pepper displayed in a window contains a perfect inch long green pepper growing inside its seed core. J A Rutherford brought the oddity from a grocery purchase and cut it open to reveal the miniature fruit with a stem at its base. Another unusual fruit, an orange at the Chamber of Commerce, shows a growth along one side resembling a tiny dragon.
William Hockman beloved husband of Mary French Hockman died November 11 1932 at his home Newman Springs Red Bank New Jersey. Services held at his home Monday November 14 at 2 p m.
Sudden death on Tuesday November 15 at Mount Laurier Quebec of Campbell Valentine, son of the late Henry K. Schuyler and Ellen Valentine. Interment is private in Belleville Cemetery New Jersey.
The undersigned as ancillary executrix of the Estate of John J Alvord deceased will on Wednesday January 4 1933 present to the County Judge of Lake County Florida at his office in the Court House in Tavares Florida for final account and vouchers and apply for approval and for her final executrix. The notice is dated February 2 1982. Rove
I B A Cassady as Sheriff of Lake County Florida levies on real property under a May 17 1932 writ from the Sixteenth Judicial Circuit Court in a case Thomas Buchanan v Washington Irving Park Inc The description anchors at Section 30 Township 19 South Range 27 East Mount Dora plat references outline streets Tremain Tavares Road Seminole Avenue Atlantic Coast Line Railroad and boundary lines touching property now owned by Angus H MacKenzie and Rossell Street Easter direction across the street completes the conveyance details
A notice describes the sale of the property of Washington Irving Park Inc at the circuit court in Tavares Florida. The parcel lies along Helen Street Seminole Avenue and Annie Street with a specified center line point on Seminole Avenue. The sale date is December 5 1932 with hours from eleven to two. A. Cassaldi is clerk, D S Thomas H Cooley is attorney for the plaintiff.
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