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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1942
Page
5
The Social Mount Dora Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star will hold its regular meeting this Thursday October 8 at 8 00 pm All Stars are invited to attend.
Mr and Mrs Arthur A Tanner marked their thirteenth wedding anniversary with a steak supper in Trimble followed by a cruise on Lakes Beau laire and Din. The couple hosted a small group including Mr and Mrs Fletcher Crane Mr and Mrs W M Kennedy and Mr and Mrs George Keller.
The Mount Dora American Legion and the Legion Auxiliary held Monday night meetings in City Hall. The Legion planned the Armistice Day celebration and voted to assist city police on Hallowe en. Afterward the Auxiliary served doughnuts and coffee to the combined group.
The Home Demonstration Club JP meets Wednesday October 14 at 2 30 p m in the Community Building. Members should bring garments to remodel for planning. work to be done later. An exchange of plants will occur. all women are invited. Sewing classes announced for next week.
The first P T A gathering Tuesday night opened with the pledge and song. President Mrs M B Allen led, theme set as Conservation of Human Values and Natural Resources with speakers on the Scrap Drive and parental duties, a social hour followed and prizes awarded to sixth and twelfth grades.
Mr and Mrs Pickens Talley announce the birth of a son Kirby Bruce on Wednesday morning October 7 at Orange General Hospital Orlando. The baby weighs 7 pounds 10% ounces at birth and both mother and child are reported doing nicely.
Mount Doraisha announces engagement of Janet Priscilla Morse to Lt William Watson House Jr son of West Hartford Connecticut. Morse studied at Edgewood Park Briarcliff Manor Rollins College and The Boston School of Dental Nursing. House attended Kingswood Academy University of Pennsylvania Rollins College and Phi Delta Theta member. He is a lieutenant in the infantry at Fort Benning Georgia and a military wedding is planned at Fort Benning in December.
Personal items list moves and visits of residents and guests across Ohio Florida New York and New England. Names include Miss Fannie Noonan Myrtle Kempf Hazelwood Victor Killian Clark and Brantley with addresses and travel details noted.
Local notes recount winter visits and travels of Mount Dora residents. Several individuals head to Florida, New York, and Indiana for visits, work, and a naval joinery. The column highlights family ties, business connections, and wartime duty as residents plan seasonal movements.
The Service Club cookie jar kept filled for two weeks from September 20 to October 3 by Methodist Church women led by Anna Slack. Donors included E B Kramer E H Van Voorhis C M Gudgeon Carl Risley Mary E Schaller and others. Hosts supplied extra cookies for higher than expected service member turnout. a prominent bachelor promised cookies, noting men cooking yields high quality results.
A Mount Dora Public Library Committee note cites W Somerset Maughams Have You Read The Hour Before The Dawn as a story of an English Henderson family during war time. It follows Roger Henderson in intelligence work, Jim a conscientious objector, Dora an Austrian refugee, and May his wife who falls for estate agent Murray as war unfolds. The page also suddenly shifts to gardening advice on soil organic material calcium and phosphate notes.
The first vacancy for the 1942 43 season follows the death of William T. McDonald of Boston and Pepperell Massachusetts on September 15. Other absentees include Willard M. Bryant and family of West Hartford Connecticut and Robert and Jessie Gould of Contoocook New Hampshire. The piece notes club founders and several returning members planning winter arrangements and new arrivals to Mount Dora, with dates and places for the relocating players.
Mrs H E Adams of Wautoma Wisconsin died at home on Friday September 18 following a two year illness. She was a longtime winter visitor in Mount Dora accompanying her husband until his death five years ago and continued seasonal stays at Lakeside Inn and later a cottage or apartment.
Mr Barber returns to Sorrento with his daughters after a summer in Toledo Ohio. Mr John Goodwin and son Cadet Buster Battle visit from Jacksonville. Mrs Rush Regent of Ocklawaha Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution calls on Sorrento friends. Cadet Battle to Dallas Air Training Camp this week. Mrs Jones and Mrs Lightfoot of Umatilla teach in the public schools.
Red Cross notes detail junior volunteers packing gift boxes for children abroad due by October 25. Training for colored first aid instructors led by Harry Kenning in Tavares October 12, with transportation arranged from multiple towns. Water safety course for white instructors also set for the same week. Surgical dressings production delayed due to missing materials. Mrs. Emil Yde and Mrs. Florence Hetsch assume Lake County chair duties.
Residents report changes in households Mrs Lola Kennedy hosts students this year. Mrs Edwin Battle receives letters from Panama City Canal Zone. Dixie Royal family to move to Umatilla for new jobs. D Conant travels to Ft Bragg NC and will bring back his son LaMar Conant's car. Parachute Division private slated to depart Ft Bragg soon.
Local social notes report visits by Lt. and Mrs. Edwin Fly and other military families, weekend guests from Mount Dora, Orlando, and Georgia. It lists postwar moves, hospital recoveries, employment updates, and a wedding at the Orlando Air Base Chapel. It ends with war time food storage tips.
A king pinned potato flowers to his coat and popularized potatoes as apples of the earth, leading to wide adoption by his subjects who began eating them widely.
As war goes on there is greater need to be alert against insects mold dampness mice and all other saboteurs of the pantry. We must act to protect rations and safeguard supplies for the home front.
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