Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving Site Set In Mount Dora
Mount Dora hosts an old fashioned Thanksgiving with Union Church services at the Community church at 10 30 a m. Rev Robert M Blackburn leads the sermon Gratitude to God followed by a solo and a Children s Home Society collection. Hotels and restaurants offer meals as the Legion dance headlines the holiday events with the Quix Quintette performing at the Legion Memorial Home.
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Florida
Lake
Robert R. Reed
Robert M. Blackburn
Methodist Church
Esther Wyatt Bishop
Curran
Children's Home Society of Florida
Legion
Legion Memorial Home
Quix’ Quintette
Mount Dora Golden Hurricanes Face Eustis Panthers Friday
Weekend football highlights include Mount Dora Golden Hurricanes closing holiday play Friday at 8 p m against Eustis Panthers on the Eustis High field. A Saturday Lions Club benefit game features Mt Dora alumni plus 1949 squad members competing at the local high school field.
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Mount Dora
Floyd Jaggears
Meadows Laundry Built After Blindness Changes Family
Howard Meadows of Groveland runs a new Meadows Laundry aided by his wife Mrs Meadows who helped plan the family’s post accident livelihood after Howard was blinded in an automobile crash four years ago. The Hands Replace Eyes program trained him to use highly sensitive hands for work.
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Florida Council For the Blind
Howard Meadows
Groveland
New Meadows
Mrs. Meadows
Meadows
Virginia
Meadows Laundry
Groveland Laundry
St. Petersburg
Lakeland
Florida
Forwart
Mascotte
Howard
Daytona Beach
Helpful Wife and Council Aid Create Groveland Laundry Dream
Four years after a crippling accident left Howard Meadows blind, he runs a Groveland laundry with his wife’s early help and lessons from the Florida Council for the Blind. Though sightless, he controls the machines by touch, aided by his wife's prior laundry work for neighbors and a community support network.
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Council
Howard Meadows
Juniors Stage Fashion Show by Local Children
The Mount Dora Kindergarten Association presents a Christmas season fashion show at the Community Building on Friday December 2. Young models aged toddling to five will display outfits from Nevas with Mrs Celia Claflin as emcee and Kay Rehbaum providing music. Scenes show preschool activities with intermissions featuring skits dances and songs.
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IceHouse
Mount Dora Kindergarten Association
Neva’s
Celia Claflin
Players
Kay Rehbaum
Negligence Leads to Arrest at East Town Lottery Scene
Police arraigned three individuals Lillian Andrews of East Town Arthur Martin and Herbe Evans of Eustis after they ignored conspicuous Mount Dora Police lettering on a car while tearing lottery slips and counting money. Each posted bonds of 100 dollars. Police Chief Richard Shipes supervised the arrest at the East Town juke joint Saturday night.
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East Town
Lillian Andrews
Arthur Martin
Herbe Evans
Eustis
Mount Dora
Richard Shipes
Post office declares daily and Sunday mail closing times
Mount Dora post office announces closing hours for outgoing mail. Daily cutoff is 8 30 a m and 6 30 p m with a Sunday deadline of 10 55 a m under Postmaster Harry Hopcraft.
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Mount Dora Post Office
Harry Hopcraft
Explosion Kills Eustis Man
Warren Acuff, 33, a citrus worker of 311 Lemon Ave in Eustis, died at Waterman Memorial Hospital after a kerosene can exploded while he tried to boost a wood stove fire. Eighty percent of his body was burned. He left a widow, Minnie Mae Acuff.
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Eustis Citrus
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Warren Acuff
Lemon Av
Frank
Treen
Acuff
Eustis
Minnie Mae Acuff
W U Introduces Speed System For Mount Dora Telegrams
Western Union announced a speed up system to speed telegraph service to and from Mount Dora. Local lines are cut into the Atlanta automatic switching center allowing direct transmission to Georgia and other major U S cities. Ruby Doster, local manager, explains the new equipment after a course in operating it. Previously telegrams went to Orlando for transmission.
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Mount Dora
Western Union
Atlanta
Georgia City
United States
Ruby Doster
Orlando
Woman's Association Slates December Meeting
The Woman's Association of the Community Church will hold its regular monthly meeting on Friday December 2 at 3 p.m. in the church parlors.
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Woman's Association of the Community Church
Martha Simpson Wins Central Florida Beauty Title
Mount Dora High School student Martha Simpson wins Central Florida honors in a national soap sponsored beauty contest. She will compete against 165 entrants for screen tests and a possible Hollywood career with judges including June Haver and Mark Stevens.
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Mount Dora
Florida
Ee Ae
Martha Simpson
Soap Man
Lois Driver
Martha
Grady Simpson
Riley’s Park
United States
Central Florida
June Haver
Mark Stevens
Orlando
Lake County
WDBO
The
Lions Club
Simpsons
Kiwanis Club Hosts Mount Dora Football Team
Mount Dora High School football squad members will dine with the Kiwanis club for a Thanksgiving preview program. The event features a turkey dinner and gifts, with entertainers Lois Driver Jackie Ober and two Mrs. Conway and Buckman. Dr. Robert R. Reed will speak on Football and Thanksgiving.
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Mount Dora High School
Kiwanis Club
Lois Driver
Jackie Ober
O. H. Conway
Mae Buckman
Robert R. Reed
Clyde Finds Fruit Of Endeavor Sweet Clyde Finds Fruit Of Endeavor Sweet Clyde
Clyde Mosteller, 1949 Mount Dora High School graduate and UF student, earned a four year Sears Roebuck agriculture scholarship. He credits his citrus grove caretaking on Country Club road for the award.
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Clyde Mosteller
Mount Dora High School
Ernest Mosteller
Clyde
University of Florida
Sears-Roebuck
Country Club Road
Gayla Bissell’s lifelong journey from nurse to political aide
Lake County profile details Gayla Bissell who resisted a business course then helped organize Red Cross in five states, served as secretary to Frank O. Lowden during his presidential bid, and shaped campaign material and speeches across the nation. The piece highlights her strong feminine character and wide-ranging public service.
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Gayla Bissell
Red Cross
Bureau of Censorship
Frank O. Lowden
Gayla
Sylvan Shores
Paign
United States
Lowden
White House
Secretaries, votes, and a Florida hotel venture in 1920
Mrs Rand Bissell backs Warren Harding after Wood loses to 214 to 208. Gayla remains Illinois governor’s secretary and accepts Lew Wiggins Red Cross boss’s bid to run a hotel in Florida. She moves to Lake County in December 1920 to serve as secretary and assistant manager of the Ocklawaha hotel in Eustis.
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Warren Harding
Wood
Lowden
Harding
Gayla
Illinois
United States
Soe
Lew Wiggins
Red Cross
Florida
Ocklawaha
Eustis
Lake County
Wiggins
Center St
Rumors of Write-In Campaign for Angus McDonald in Mount Dora
Rumors spread in Mount Dora this week about a possible write-in bid for mayor in the December 13 election. Angus McDonald had declined to run against City Council President D. Fletcher Crane, yet indications pointed to a growing write-in effort.
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Mount Dora
Angus McDonald
McDonald
D. Fletcher Crane
Christmas Seal Sale Begins
The annual Christmas seal drive to raise funds against tuberculosis starts this week with Lake County targeting $10,000 and Mount Dora raising over $1,100 last year. Roy Christopher is local chairman handling returned dollars. local council race notes mention Wayne Moon and other city election possibilities amid discussions of council slate by the business men’s committee.
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Lake County
Tuberculosis and Health Association
Mount Dora
Roy Christopher
Wayne Moon
al Rehbaum, Jr
R. C. Bardwell
Henry Beims
Crane
Beims
Business Men's
Ernest Mosteller
John Bethel
Lillian Christie
J. M. Turner
Mosteller
Bethel
Rehbaum
Bardwell
Business Men’s
J. ©. Fortner
George J. White
Carl Graves
Richard Edgerton
O. M.simpson
Tom Cooley
Time's A'Wasting Shopper Plans Christmas Early
A reader muses on Thanksgiving past and Christmas ahead. She frets about starting shopping, juggling appointments and chores, and locating a Christmas list among receipts and memories from college days, while promising to finally plan with her Woman's club friend.
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Madame Alexander
Gloria Pullo
Paul Pullo
Gloria
City
N. J
Rossiterst
Neva
W.U
Kiwanis Club Fetes
Mabel Norris Reese
Warren G. Harding
James Milikin University
Decatur
Springfield
Ill
Springfield Art Club
Guyla Q
Otis Ele
Guyla
Lewis N. Wiggins
Stee Gor
den of Hingis Ans
Lowdon
Guyla Bissell
Mrs. Rand Bissell
Johnnie
Mary
Mary Belle
B.P.W
Sis I
FSU
Bob
Tally
Delta Pi
Woman's Club
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