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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1944
Page
5
The Ocklawaha Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution will meet December 7 at 2 30 p m in the parlors of Mount Dora Congregational Church. Col Page will speak in the afternoon. Visiting Daughters are invited.
The Auxiliary plans a regular meeting and Christmas party next Monday night in the City Hall auxiliary room. Members are urged to bring gifts for veterans. Legionnaires are invited to join for a social hour and refreshments and may bring gifts as well.
The Mount Dora Home Demonstration Club will meet on Wednesday, December 6 at 2 30 p m in the Community Building for a Christmas party. Members are asked to bring a small gift. Attendance at the last meeting was good and interest remains high.
Mrs Ernest Mosteller was hostess to a family Thanksgiving dinner Sunday November 26. Attending were Mr James Simpson, Mr and Mrs Howard Simpson and children Jimmie and Bobby, Mr and Mrs Russell McKinney and daughter Sandra of Sanford, Mrs Vera Lott and daughter Dorothy of Orlando, Mrs Mary Schaller and guest Mrs Keller, Mr and Mrs Frank Finzel, and Mr and Mrs Mosteller and son Clyde.
Six tables of bridge and six of five hundred played in the Monday Social Club. Mrs. Ray Blanchard won the bridge prize and Mrs. Elizabeth Fielding took five hundred. A monthly pot luck dinner is set for next Monday at one. Hostesses include Mrs. C. E. Abbott, Mrs. Frank Judd, Mrs. White and Mrs. George DeMuth. Card games resume at 2 15 with Mrs. Collier Cooper hosting bridge and Mrs. Mattie White five hundred.
Miss Joyce Duggan hosted a Friday afternoon gathering at her Sylvan Shores home for a group of local youths. Guests included Betty High, Betty Cooley, Laura Roseborough, Lucille Minkley, Maryann Hadlock, Anna Margaret White, Ruth Shipes, Fay Shipes, Peggy Joyce Rutherford and Catherine Gardner from Orlando. Ashton Brown, Charles Smith, Charles Javens, Dwight Mosteller, Wesley Wilder, Bobby Petraschall, Donald French, James Bean, Jack Burr, Sonny Malone, Tom Kelley, Buddy White and Horace Adams also attended.
Mrs. Pearl Camp led the Mount Dora Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star in a regular meeting. A donation was approved for the Masonic Home in St Petersburg. Mrs. R N White Sr was voted into membership by affiliation and two candidates were named for the December 14 degrees. Visitors included Mrs. Judd Evans Morrell and Rev Sutley.
The Youth Fellowship held a meeting on November six led by Doris Harding with four teens present. They plan larger attendance next week and discussed Christian Living using The Story of the Great Stone Face. A Friday night party with Thanksgiving motif was held November 24 with games and refreshments. Reverend Spotswood and Tampa youths will entertain on December 10, inviting all aged 12 to 23 to attend each Sunday 6:30 to 7:30.
The Womens Missionary Society of the Baptist church met Friday at Mrs. Florence G Hanscoms home 831 North Grandview street. The gathering focused on prayer study and fellowship with visitors invited. The book studied was not specified in the accessible text.
The 10:30 a m devotional opened the study led by Mrs Patrick with segments by Mrs Sutley Miss Kurtz Miss Clarke Mrs Gridley and Mrs Bouterse. A noon covered dish luncheon followed and the gathering adjourned at 3 p m. attendees included a long list of members and visitors.
The annual Order of the Eastern Star memorial service was held Sunday afternoon by Mount Dora Chapter. The hall featured white chrysanthemums, star-point colors, and a white star jasmine arrangement. Pearl Camp presided. Rev J H Sutley opened with prayer and the program included readings, solos, and tributes to two deceased members.
Personal notices list residents and guests in Mount Dora including Mr. M. J. Sedano improving at Waterman Memorial Hospital Mrs. Howard Wetz heads to Chicago for a two week visit Beverlyg and David Sellers Orlando grandparents with DL Sellers and George C. Shepard family at 737 Clayton street H A Dahm returning from Webster Groves J Bert O Hara Weedsport visiting his father J L O Hara Mrs Dixon and children Perry Ga visiting Mrs Dixon's relatives L J Drawdy Sr Libby Drawdy C E Abbott hosts informal gathering Mrs M O Adams Hingham Mass in Mount Dora Dr C E Beeman Grand Rapids Mich winter visit John C Bailey Middletown Conn unable to visit due to poor health Theodore Swanson Pratt Hollow Mount Dora for winter stay.
The report notes canceled reservations on the Cham pion due to an earlier wreck near Georgia, and describes residents and guests in the area. Harold G Morse entertained his daughter in law Sgt Thelma Morse of the Womens Army Corps at Moore General Hospital Swannanoa NC. Bess G Colwell of Mexico MO visits with her sister and brother in law Carl and Lovless. Dorothy Loveless and Alvin Knight join families in Wewahitchka and Jacksonville. J B White and family in Gulf County visit, while J J White takes charge of the Mobile Experiment Unit during a short break from work. Hiram Bradner and spouse arrive from Bradley Beach NJ for the season on Seventh Avenue, noting storm damage along almost twenty miles of boardwalk heavily washed or damaged by the tidal surge.
Pvt and Mrs Wilbur L Woodruff Jr announce the birth of a seven pound fourteen ounce son Raymond Wilbur on Friday November seventeenth at Waterman Memorial Hospital Eustis Mother and baby are doing finely Pvt Woodruff is now somewhere in France Rev and Mrs Victor L Rankin announce the birth of a son David Lee Rankin born November twenty third Mother and baby are doing fine Rev Rankin is minister at Broadway Methodist Church of New Philadelphia Mrs Rankin will be remembered here as Katherine Killian daughter of Mr and Mrs C A Killian Sylvan Shores
The Villa Dora Hotel celebrates Thanksgiving with prayers on the meaning of thanks and notes its service to the community. It highlights recent events including Kiwanis Club lunches dinners, a tea, a family reunion, a dinner for the 55th Searchlight Battalion, and reservations for a 20th Thanksgiving dinner. It extends greetings to new and returning northern visitors listing multiple names and locations.
The Mount Dora Public Library Committee lists new arrivals for the month across fiction and non fiction shelves. Notable titles include Ride With Me by T B Costain A Bashful Woman by Kenneth Horan Ridin the Rainbow by Rosemary Taylor Cluny Brown by Margery Sharp Immortal Wife by Irving Stone No More by August Der eth Doctor Ellisons Decision by Elizabeth Seifert The Building of Jalna by Mazc De La Roche Inherit the Earth by Margaret Shedd A Star to Hold by Joan Garrison The Boston Cooking School Cook Book by Fannie M Farmer We Live in Alaska by Constance Helmericks Gifts Songs and Rhymes for Little Ones by Mary W Morrison The Hash Knife Outfit and The Trail Driver by Zane Grey.
The Navy Recruiting Service of Florida announces three voluntary enlistment programs. They cover Radio Technician Radar Training available to pre-induction candidates, WAVES for young women, and Aircrewmen enlistment open to 17 year olds and single draft-age men up to 27.
Major General Frederick E. Uhl announces new War Department procedure limiting requests for soldiers to return home to those routed through the Red Cross. Local Red Cross chapters determine actual need, report to the field director of the theatre, and theatre officers decide final action.
Harold Colee of the Florida State Chamber of Commerce said Washington assured a commemorative stamp will honor Florida’s 100th anniversary of statehood. The Tampa Collectors Club started the effort in May and received swift chamber support and congressional backing. Work is to begin around the first of the year.
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