Our Town Mount Dora Budget and Debt Report
The Town of Mount Dora reports a total assessed valuation of 3 649 284 dollars and a total budget of 50 000 dollars with 50 percent for debt service. It notes a bonded debt of 404 700 dollars, net debt 242 000 dollars, and 121 dollars per capita. Taxes collected in 1930 83, 1931 76 and 1933 60 percent are cited with 70 percent expected by year end 1933. The report was presented by Mrs. Evans at the Woman’s Club meeting on the topic Our Club and Our Own.
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Mount Dora
Florida
Light and Water
Tourist Club Opens Season With Fine Program
The Tourist Club begins its season with a free program Tuesday at 7 30 in the Community Auditorium. Rollins Glen Club and Rollins Cathedral Choir, now 55 strong, provide the opening night entertainment. The pre season canvass shows strong member interest and a nominating committee will be elected for officers.
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Ac Dora
S. C. Peacock
Rollins Gleen Club
Rollins Cathedral Choir
Christmas Seal Radio Broadcast Opens Campaign
Christmas Seal Radio Broadcast on Sunday December 2 from 10 to 10:30 P M features Dr Frances Trudeau speaker on the twenty eighth annual campaign. Funds from seal sales support health work clinics education tuberculin testing X rays and medical research. Jessica Dragonette and Lanny Ross sing a duet with Malkin's Renaissance Ensemble and Rosarie Bourdon. The National Broadcasting Company via WJZ airs from 8 H studio RCA Building New York City. Lake County Tuberculosis and Health Association supports this among 2000 affiliated groups.
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Frances Trudeau
Edward Livingston Trudeau
Jessica _Dragonette
Lanny Ross
Malkin
Renaissance
America
Rosarie Bourdon
National Broadcasting Company
WJZ
R. C. A. Building
New York City
Lake County
Tuberculosis Fand Health Association
Spirit of the Pines painting hung in Mount Dora social room
The Mount Dora Art League has placed The Spirit of the Pines by Margaret Spencer Davidson on the Community Building social room wall. The gift was funded by donations and a framed inscription funded partly by the Art League and partly by the Community Building Equipment Committee for improved lighting.
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Margaret Spencer Davidson
Mount Dora Art League
the Pines
Mount Coe
Art League
Treasury
Grapefruit Sent From Home Reminds Edgemont Recipient
Coast Line Agent P W Turrentine shipped a box of grapefruit to Mr C W Osborne American Express agent at Edgemont South Dakota. Osborne, unfamiliar with the sender, replied with a note recalling his youth on the Osborne place between Mount Dora and Eustis and saying the fruit felt like a thing from home.
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Coast Line
P. W. Turrentine
C. W. Osborne
American Express
Edgemont
S. D
Osborne Place
Mount Dora
Eustis
Grand View Welcomes Chef Walter Blackmore for Season
Mr and Mrs Walter Blackmore arrived at the Grand View last Thursday and he resumes his regular chef steward role responsible for making meals famous last winter. The Blackmores report a very successful season at the Alpine Hotel North Woodstock New Hampshire before returning.
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Walter Blackmore
Grand View
Blackmore
Blackmores
Alpine Hotel
North Woodstock
N. H
Hi Y Boys Initiated Into National Group at Mount Dora High
In Mount Dora High School second meeting of the season the Hi Y Club was initiated into the national group by seven Apopka club members led by Pres Hitchcock. A model session followed with cocoa and cookies served in the Home Economics room by Miss Meadows Lyda Beck Jean Smith and Ruth Harvey.
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Mount Dora High School
Apopka Club
Hitchcock
Mount Dora Boys
Mount Dora
Miss Meadows
Lyda Beck
Jean Smith
Ruth Harvey
Apopka
Pave Hitchcock
Bill Hace
George Hawthorne
Treas
Robert Stevens
Walter Dunbar
Everett McWhorter
H. Davis
Frank Pooser
Roy Christopher
Frederick
Primary Grades Present Pageant The Cycle of the Year
The Public School Primary Department will stage a pageant titled The Cycle of the Year on Friday December 7 at eight oclock in the Community Building. About 100 children participate with monthly features songs and pantomime directed by Misses Doris Camp Joan Stanley Betty West and assisted by Miss Vivian Thompson. A small charge funds books for the department tickets go on sale next week and a large audience is hoped for.
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Doris Camp
Joan Stanley
Betty West
Vivian Thompson
Mount Dora Merchants Launch Christmas Trade Home Campaign
Mount Dora merchants begin a home trade campaign to boost Christmas business, continuing a familiar plan with a Christmas tree in the Community Building and a Christmas Eve gift exchange for patrons. Stores promise first class stock, good values, and special inducements, urging local shopping.
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Mount Dora
Lake County Poultry Show Plans Complete
The Lake County Poultry Show runs January 8 to 12 in Eustis open to all Florida breeders for the first time. Judging starts January 8 with public viewing January 9 from 9 a m to 9 p m daily through the 12th. Entertainment and agricultural motion pictures supplement four nights of shows as Florida Agricultural College backs the event led by C G Wile president and Tan gerine.
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Lake County
Eustis
Florida
Florida Agricultural College
C. G. Wile
Umatilla
Tangerine
Lake County Poultry Association
Cliff Hiatt
Doc Osborne
Albert Brown
Christmas Seals On Sale Tomorrow For Tuberculosis Fight
Christmas seals go on sale tomorrow in Mount Dora and Lake county to fund tuberculosis and public health work in Florida. Mrs. Gerald Hurburt leads the Mount Dora drive. if seals aren’t received, contact her or visit Rest-a-While Gift Shop on Donney avenue. The red blue and green seal features a cottage built by Dr Drucean, the Father of the Sanatorium Movement.
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Mount Dora
Lake County
Florida
Gerald Hurburt
Donne
V' Avenue
Dr. Drucean
United States
Pythian Sisters Bazaar Set for December 7 8
The Pythian Sisters of Mount Dora announce their annual bazaar in the Simpson store building at Donnelly and Fifth avenues on Friday December 7 from 2 to 6 PM and Saturday December 8 from 10 AM until closing. Many useful and fancy articles made by the ladies will be sold at reasonable prices with early shoppers enjoying first choice.
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The
Pythian Sisters of
Mount Dora
Simpson Store
Donnelly and
Fifth Avenues
Orange Festival Plans Bigger Event in Winter Haven
Florida Orange Festival general manager J B Guthrie says the seventh annual fall festival will run in Winter Haven late January 1935. The event aims to be bigger and better with more rides and amusements.
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J. B. Guthrie
Winter Haven
Christmas Seat Buyers in Florida Follow Money Trail
A vague note traces how Florida buyers of Christmas seats attempt to map the money flow behind the purchase. It hints at pursuit of transparency and possible obstacles in tracking funding.
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Florida
Our Town and Club Hear Local History and Art Talks
The Mount Dora Woman’s Club hosted a meeting on its history and town projects. Mrs George Keller reviewed the club’s 1919 founding and Lake County Federation links, while Miss Margaret Lewis covered the public library’s growth to over 5 000 volumes with a trained staff.
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Woman’s Club
George Keller
State Federation
Woman's Clubs
Eustis
Leesburg
Umatilla
Lake County
Keller
Donnelly
Park Board
Public Library
Margaret Lewis
Graham
Gerald Hurlburt
Florida
Mount Dora
Tax Reform League Of Lake County Organized Last Week
An organization of Lake County citizens launched at Tavares last Friday aims to push a state wide tax reform. Led by S H Bowman it succeeds the Homestead Exemption League and plans precinct leagues across the county to support an aggressive reform program backed by the Florida Association of Real Estate Boards.
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Lake County
Florida
Tavares
Homestead Exemption League
S.H. Bowman
Realton
Clermont
Exemption League
Walter Rose
Orlando
Westbrook
Kennedy
Lake Count
League
Florida Association of Real Estate Boards
Lake County Exemption League
Tax Reform League of
H. Bowman
Harry P. Johnson
J. H
County League
St. Petersburg
Florida Association of ‘Real Estate Boards
Outman
Associaton
SV. H., Toole
San
Town Election Tuesday December 11
The town election will be held Tuesday December 11 in the Municipal Building. Three councilmen and one park commissioner are to be elected. Only four names will appear on the ballot four names: Geo C Keller James Simpson A J Waltz for Councilman and R W Dickson for Park Commissioner.
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Park Commission
Geo. C. Keller
James Simpson
A. J. Waltz
R. W. Dickson
Guild Bazaar At St Thomas Guild In Eustis
The ladies of St Thomas Guild hold their annual bazaar on Saturday December 15 in the store room on Magnolia avenue Eustis next door to Ferran's dry goods store Mount Dora Episcopal ladies are members and Mount Dora residents are invited to attend.
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Ladies of St.Thomas Guild
Magnolia Avenue
Eustis
Ferran’s
Episcopal Ladies of
Mount Dora
Early TB detection and Christmas seal funds
Every advanced case of tuberculosis was an early case once. Early discovery means early recovery. Christmas seal funds help find the early case.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Hi-Y Boys
Roosevelt
Henry L. Doherty
Georgia Warm Springs Foundation
Warm Springs Foundation
Lake County Poultry Show
Pythian Sisters
Interesting Womans Club
State League
Styloa
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