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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1944
Page
3
The King's Daughters will hold their regular meeting Monday October 9 at 8 p m in the Community Building. Annual election of officers will be held. Hostesses will be Mrs Lenna Soper Mrs Rose Searing and Mrs Esther Maglathlin.
The Women’s Association of the Community Church starts the new season with a Friday meeting at 3 PM in the church parlors. Members including Mrs Bradley Mrs Cleary Miss Lemert Miss Milner Mrs Pratt Mrs Richards and Dr Richards will share brief summer reports. Tea will be served.
On Monday afternoon Misses Doris and Twila Camp entertained Mount Dora school faculty ladies at a Coca Cola party honoring new faculty member Mrs James Cooper on her birthday. Guests included Mrs Esther Maglathlin Mrs Helen Parker Mrs Alice Strite Miss LaNelle Vandiver Miss Evelyn Cassady Miss Evalyn Teter and Mrs Nana T Laney.
Elizabeth Wentworth was surprised with a tea party arranged by her daughter Edith and neighbors last Saturday. Friends visited during the afternoon, guests from out of town joined locals as garden flowers adorned the veranda and refreshments were served with individualized birthday cakes and candles.
Personal notes report residents recovering or traveling: George E. Hall after a foot injury. Frank A. Theall and wife return from a summer in Stow Mass. Evelyn Schild visits Cleveland. Gertrude Thorne returns from Daytona Beach. Mrs. Wyer back from Maine. Florence Ault resumes post after illness. several others arriving from St. Louis and Daytona Beach to visit family or reside for winter. Alpha Chi Omega pledge for Grace Lee. Service and housing updates include rentals and moves among local addresses.
The column lists residents and visitors returning for the season to Mount Dora and nearby areas. It notes military and civilian travelers, summer trips to Hendersonville and Wisconsin, and gatherings with local families. Specific names include Dr. and Mrs. Winston Stephens, Mr. and Mrs. William Prinz, Miss Madeleine Milner, Dr. and Mrs. A. P. Pratt, Mrs. Frank Hadlock, Mrs. Mary Koebke, Lieut. and Mrs. R. N. White, Angus McDonald, and C. E. Abbott, with addresses and past summers in North Carolina, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
Miss Twila Camp will attend the Lake County Elementary School Curriculum Committee meeting in Tavares at The Hitching Post dinner meeting. County officials Mr. Frank J. Banning, Mr. James E. Beevis, and Dr. McCracken will discuss school plans and problems with attendees. Mr and Mrs D Fletcher Crane are in Daytona Beach for the weekend while Mrs Crane visits Minnesota and Iowa relatives.
Sorrento announces the birth of Marelyn Elizabeth Klein to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Klein of Detroit born September 21. Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Geo Norton of Sorrento. The mother was known as Miss Ivan Norton to local friends. Also noted are visits from Mrs. Clara Craft of Osceola Ohio and Mr. and Mrs. Hickson of Paterson New Jersey visiting the Weinmann family.
Wallace Beery arrives to headline the comedy Rationing at the Prin cess Friday and Saturday with Marjorie Main co starring bringing a light hearted film program to town.
The report notes Mrs. Lydia Scharfhausen of Mount Plymouth leaving Sunday for Tampa for a month with her daughter Birke and family. Mrs. Paul Ferris and children move into the downstairs apartment in the block house owned by Mrs. Ida. Master Graybille Battle is ill and absent from school. Robert Arenes and husband of Banana River Naval Base visited his father Mr. Clouse and sister Mrs. Marie Nichols. Staff Sgt. Clayton Bagwell is on furlough visiting family and friends after stationed in Minneapolis.
The Executive Board of the Women’s Auxiliary of St Thomas Church in Eustis meets Friday October 6 at 10 am at secretary Mrs H B Blake’s home 226 McDonald Ave. Plans for the year and opening Guild meeting October 10 at 10 am in the Parish House are discussed with Corporate Communion and officer installation. Luncheon at noon. program on The American Scene follows. history by Mrs R E Sawyer.
J Cameron Urquhart born 1862 in Nairn Scotland died at his Highland Court home last Friday September 29. He moved to Chicago in 1891 and retired from the food industry in 1920 before settling in Mount Dora. Survived by wife Brauhart daughter Grace Taylor and son Cameron six grandchildren and other relatives. Services held October 8 at 3 pm with Forest Cemetery interment.
Mrs Sarah Frances Hamill 71 of Gainesville Fla died Tuesday morning September 26 at her sister’s home in Orange City after a short illness Funeral services were held Thursday at DeWitt C Jones Chapel Gainesville with Rev Thomas V McCaul officiating Burial followed in Evergreen Cemetery Gainesville She was born in South Carolina and lived in Florida over 50 years Survived by four daughters three sons nine grandchildren and three sisters in Florida Georgia and Alabama
Etiquette rules are ignored in the very places where they should be observed, reflecting a shift in social norms and behavior across public venues.
A compact transit notice lists departure times from Leesburg and points north and south at 9 45 A M 4 00 P M from Sanford 9 00 A M Star Route from Orlando 6 00 P M Star Route from Leesburg International routes and times noted without additional context.
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