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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1941
Page
6
Mount Dora Publishing Company announces subscription pricing for Mount Dora topics in Florida. Rates include One Year for $2.00 Six months for $1.00 Three months for 60 cents and a single copy for 5 cents. Display advertising is 35 cents per inch with a 25 cent minimum. Classified ads apply. First class matter date April 7, 1916.
A class discusses The American Creed and announces new library books for eleven grades. They report a 3.05 dollar candy sale to fund books for the fifth grade and rehearsals for a Christmas pageant. Their room mother is ill. they sent flowers and a card hoping for her recovery and Thanksgiving meal. Frances Smith and Roberti Teasley named as spelling stars.
In our elementary setting the department prepares for a Christmas program while also focusing on Thanksgiving. Students make booklets with color coded covers and collect pictures to illustrate a spelling based Thanksgiving story. Activities blend art spelling and language.
Students describe Armistice Day events with names such as David Blanchard Elizabeth Oliver and Russell McKinney attending parades and park exercises. New student Betty Smith arrives with her family while Marcia Jo Foster visits Jacksonville. A candy sale is planned for December 2 to benefit the elementary school library.
Second grade children raise 85 cents for the Red Cross. Fifty cents funds Junior Red Cross enrollment and the rest buys scrapbook materials for Crippled Children's Home in Umatilla. The class will continue collecting.
A reader notes a curious pack that fits multiple uses counting months weeks and prayers. The author claims one item covers a year quarterly weeks and common prayers, linking time, scripture, and ritual in a compact reference.
The account honors Mrs Eliza L Evans born November 24 1871 Napoleon Ohio who moved to Mount Dora in 1922 for her devoted public service Her obituary notes her fearless outreach and impact on social and civic improvements The piece also mentions community events including scrapbook projects for Crippled Children's Home Umatilla and local school activities with birthdays attendance visits and a cotton seed project.
Dorans fall 53 to 0 as injuries crippled the squad with sixteen players lost since the season start and eight of the first string sidelined. Small linemen deserve credit for hard work while quarterback David French directs plays. St Cloud’s Lister Connley and Smith added points with Hedrick and Haner scoring twice. The Dorans showed spark in the third quarter with several passes and runs before a critical interception ended the rally.
Ormund Powers reports Orange State Groves founder S M Coen is developing a citrus estate near Mount Dora inspired by feudal fields. He plans 500 acres with 300 new. aims to pack 100,000 boxes per season and house workers on site. Estate zones will separate white and colored workers. Coen, former Pure Oil national distributor and Seaboard Oil founder, seeks to grow and pack fruit for 75 cents a box, aiming to pass citrus wealth to the next generation.
Sailors in whites from the U S Naval Reserve on shore leave in Panama appear as cavalry on a bucking bronco sea tale. Enlistment is four years but can be released to inactive duty when the national emergency ends. Advancement, travel, and pay are identical for Regular Navy and Naval Reserve enlistees.
Mount Dora offers near perfect living conditions with mild year round temperatures. The average yearly rainfall is about 56 inches and winter days average 72 degrees while some days dip below 50. The area’s pine woods and orange blossoms fragrance the air as residents enjoy golf motor boating tennis and outdoor recreation in a Homeland ambiance.
Florida leaders General Albert H. Blanding and Adjutant General Vivian Collins will attend the Lake County Fair opening on Monday March 9. Collins will review the Florida Defense Force Fourth Battalion and Blanding will be guest of honor also reviewing the same unit. A supper for the officers and a parade to the fairgrounds will follow. Major Dave L. Wiley commands the battalion with Captains Don E. Smith and Rollin Javens leading two Lake County companies.
The Lake County Chamber of Commerce board met at the Court House on Friday November 21 and unanimously passed a resolution commending the President of the United States. It calls him to use full power to ensure railroad coal mine and other union labor abide by mediation to avert threatened strikes that could disrupt defense operations.
Edge L D Edge of Groveland marked his fiftieth birthday on November 21. Born in 1891 at Glenville Georgia, he studied at Stetson University Southern College and the University of Florida. He came to Lake County in 1901 and became Groveland’s first mayor and a young Florida legislator.
W J Rogers of Tavares born November 27 1883 in Keyser North Carolina attended Georgia grade schools and Mercer University He has served as cashier of the Bank of Tavares since 1918 arriving in Florida in 1906 and Lake County in 1911 He is a Baptist Mason and Kiwanian noted for active civic leadership in Lake County
Mrs Lucy M Woodruff of Clermont born November 22 1897 in Columbus Georgia pursued education in Atlanta LaGrange College and built a life as a housewife mother of three and business owner She managed Woodruff Pecan Company and Lakeside Camp while guiding Clermont and Lake County civic groups including the Clermont Chamber of Commerce Lake County Chamber of Commerce and the county commercial organization.
Lieut E Hood Wilkerson of Eustis born November 26 1898 in Cuthbert Georgia. He attended public schools in Cuthbert and Athens and graduated from the University of Georgia. He worked for the ACL Railroad at Donaldsonville and served in Mexico 1916 and two years at the front in France during World War I.
Members of the Lake County Board of Realtors and their wives gathered Tuesday evening November 20 at the Dutch Kitchen in Eustis. Over 20 attended from all Lake County sections. Reports on state and national conventions were given by S. H. Bowman H. B. Harrell and Violet Dunham. A. C. McNarlen spoke on Obligations of a Realtor. The December 18 meeting was set for the Dutch Kitchen in Eustis. A nominating committee was named to select officers for the new year.
The 1942 calendar from the University of Florida Agricultural Extension Service highlights the Food for Freedom theme. It features a two meter bomber at Orlando air base with home-preserved foods, vegetables, and baskets arranged by Lake County agents R. E. Norris and Mrs. Lucy K. Miller. A Mount Dora 4-H Club boy and girl appear, along with a man, a woman, and two air base flyers.
Christmas holidays at Florida State College for Women begin December 19 at 4 30 p m and continue until January 5 at 8 30 a m with no classes during the period. The schedule reflects a college shutdown over the festive season.
Notice is given that a General Town Election for Mount Dora Florida will be held at City Hall on Tuesday December 9 1941 Offices include Mayor two year term Town Clerk Tax Collector Treasurer two years Four Councilmen two years Park Commissioner five years One Board of Elections member two years Petitions by at least twenty five qualified electors must be filed with the Town Clerk at least twenty days before election Polls open 8 a m close at sundown Registration book open at Town Clerk during business hours until noon on December 6 J B Griswold Town Clerk.
Notice informs that Turner's Paint & One Shop will register a fictitious business name under Chapter 20053 Laws of Florida. The filing lists the business at Fourth Ave and Donnelly St Mount Dora Lake County with J M Turner as the interested party, dated November 13 1941.
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