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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1932
Page
2
The Young Women's Auxiliary of First Baptist will gather Tuesday October 11 at 1502 Donnelly Street. All young women are invited to attend.
The Women’s Missionary Society of the Methodist church will meet Monday afternoon October 10 at 2 30 at Miss Fairley’s home Ninth avenue and Grand view street. Mrs Anna Carr leads the program and outlines plans and the study course for the coming year. All members and friends are invited.
Mrs. Frank Nettleton of Clermont entertained her needlework club at her Mount Dora home on Clayton Street North. Twelve ladies attended with guests Mrs. Grant Cowles and Mrs. Ray Blanchard of Mount Dora joining the group last Thursday afternoon.
Miss Mary True entertained a small group Monday night for her sister Carrie True's birthday. Guests included Miss Nancy Stuart and Mrs. David S. Simpson, Mrs. George Coffin, and Mrs. George Keller as they chatted, played a musical guessing game, and enjoyed refreshments.
The W C T U met at the Community church chapel on October 3 with seven present. Miss Charlotte Fitch was chosen as delegate to the State W C T U convention at Sanford, opening October 31 and ending November 2. An article from Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, president of the Women's Organization for National Prohibition Reform, advocates beer for every man, woman and child.
Mrs. Carr led the funds readout for the government treasury progress. Blye’s article Booze and Ciruses from the Saturday Evening Post was summarized and a Orlando conference resolution listing officials for election and their platforms from the American City was read.
The next King's Daughters gathering, set for Tuesday evening October 11, is rescheduled to Wednesday October 12 at the Grand View Hotel. Miss Mary Dyson and Miss Nan J. Stuart will serve as hostesses and officers will be elected for the coming year. All members are urged to attend.
The Baptist church with Girls Auxiliary presents The Way of the Cross on Wednesday evening October 12 at 7 30 at Mount Dora Baptist Church. The speaker Mrs Stephen Witt a missionary of twenty years on the Isthmus of Panama eleven years in Costa Rica and four years in Cayman Islands is the featured speaker. All are invited to join the auxiliaries for the event.
Miss Marion Cookinham and Frank Haas Jr. were married on September 22, 1932 at the home of Rev. J. M. Bouterse in Winter Park. They returned from their honeymoon and are staying near Sorrento until their new home is ready.
Personal Miss Mildren Snell and Miss Iona Moten were weekend guests of Miss Marie Whitten. Mr and Mrs James Lea of Tampa visited Mr and Mrs Fred Harding on Sunday. Mrs E E Truskett Miss Ahna Blake and Mrs Champ spent the weekend at Daytona Beach. Mr and Mrs J B Griswold returned to Mount Dora Sunday after a vacation in Jefferson Ohio. Mrs J R Tucker and children drove to Lake City to visit Mr Tucker ill in the Veterans Hospital there. Mr Tucker had a ton-
A roundup of residents and visitors in Mount Dora includes Sil Operation Sunday at Grove Street Eustis, Easter Armstrong returning from Mount Carmel, Mr. and Mrs. Faulkner at Alexander Street, Louisa Hague’s improving health, J. G. Kirby and family at the World Series in New York, and many others visiting or traveling between Mount Dora, Orlando, Tampa, and nearby locales. The piece lists arrivals, departures, and social engagements with mentions of dinners, cantatas, and circuses attended.
Dear Editor requests residents with radios to tune them down to their own homes. The writer notes several radios audible a block away in the residence area and that constant cries of radios are unpleasant for neighbors.
Mr and Mrs Etchells report improving conditions in New England with many visitors at Kennebunk port and ten dress shops open this summer. At Biddeford textiles mills run full time with day and night shifts for first time in over three years, and the couple returned with their adopted daughter Kathryn Dorothy, four.
Dr. Duckwitz, director of Stetson University Conservatory of Music, will offer extension piano classes in Eustis weekly with five pupils per class. A Mus.D. from Bucknell, he previously led Toledo Rochester and Kidd Key conservatories and has trained notable pupils including Pearl Stephens and Dorothy Miller. Information available at the Chamber of Commerce.
Dr Enwalls Philosophy Classes start October 12 at 7 00 pm and 8 00 pm in the Tavares High School library. Classes are mostly for teachers but open to interested citizens with a small expense charge. Interested persons should notify Superintendent D H Moore in Tavares Florida.
Mount Dora traveled to Winter Garden for the second football game. Winter Garden led 6 0 after the first quarter with a blocked extra point. Both teams stalled in the later quarters as the Mount Dora line strengthened and the ends began to click. The team hosts Utamilla at home next Friday, October seventh.
Five year old Marjorie Little daughter of Mr and Mrs Robert B Little of Concord New Hampshire and granddaughter of Mrs Mattie B Little of Mount Dora was killed when struck by a motor truck while crossing a street on Tuesday afternoon September 27. The driver took her to a hospital where she died fifteen minutes after the impact before her parents could reach her. She was the only daughter and is survived by her parents and three brothers.
Special Master schedules sale under a 1932 final decree in Lake County Florida. The mortgaged goods include a valve refecer set, welding outfits, presses, jacks, tools, machines, a cash register, lamps, oil tanks, and other shop equipment to be sold to the highest cash bidder at the courthouse on November 7, 1932.
The Florida State Association of County Officials will hold its annual meeting in Tampa at the Hillsboro Hotel on October 7 and 8. Most sessions will take place in the hotel near the Hillsborough County Court House, with a large attendance expected.
A Monday evening meeting elected Flora Morley secretary and Mary Elizabeth Simpson scribe to fill vacancies from last year. Members discussed handcraft work and continued projects in the Scout room.
I. B. Cassady sheriff of County Posse announces a writ issued by the Circuit Court of the Six to enforce a sale. Details list the property, terms, and auction date as provided by the court and sheriff's office.
Legal notice states the Lake County Groves Corporation property will be sold at public auction on November 7, 1932 between 11 am and 2 pm at the front door of the Circuit Court House in Tavares Florida. Sheriff A Cassady oversees the sale with attorney Thomas H Cooley representing the plaintiff.
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