Winter Lawn Bowling Opens With Active Season
The article notes a strong start to the lawn bowling season with many players returning or planning to join for the winter in Mount Dora and Sewickley. It lists arrivals, club moves, and social notes including Mrs. Stocker’s passing and sympathy extended to the Stocker family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Hutchinson
Lake Placid Club
Sewickley
Edgeworth Club
Dick Edgerton
Lakeside
Edward Bower
Alexander
Hendersonville
Frank M. Else
Mount Dora
Donnelly and
Tenth
Beach
Bittner
Grace Trager
Marie Warren
Charlotte Druar
Garrison
Emmy Beach
Emmy Beach, Mrs. Denbroeder, Johnson and Spencer
Etta Spear
Mary Garrison
Davis
Jewell
Pill
William Breckenridge
Edward Blackburne
Roy Jones
Charles Skoglund
George Stocker
Henry Warren
Forrest Dean
Clayton Applegate
Arthur Bennett
Lloyd Oster
Guy Carrel
John Chesley
George
Freezer Institute to Aid Home Freezer Owners and Renters
The Freezer Institute will be held at the Home Demonstration building in Tavares on Tuesday November 8. Gainesville and Tallahassee specialists will lecture on freezing topics including dressing, glazing and wrapping Lake County fish and selecting and preparing poultry for freezing. Demonstrations cover aging and packaging beef while sessions on home freezer wiring and management are included. County agents urge all home freezer owners and freezer renters to attend the all day event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freezer Institute
Tavares
Gainesville
Tallahassee
Lake County
W. J. Platt, Jr
J. S. Moore
Lena Sturges
Robert L. Reddick
Lake County Chamber membership tops 1800 mark
Lake County Chamber of Commerce membership exceeds 1800 this week with Mount Dora at 185 percent of its quota and Mt. Plymouth at 250 percent Sorento at 183 percent. The annual dinner in Leesburg on Nov 11 crowns the drive chaired by C Harold Hippler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Knorr Named Bee President of Central Florida Beekeepers
Karl Knorr of Tangerine was elected president of the Central Florida Beekeepers Association at the Orlando meeting, succeeding Arthur Brew of Umatilla. Other officers include Ferry of St. Cloud as treasurer, Henry Swanson as alternate secretary, and Mrs. Millard Coggshall of Minneola as treasurer. Retiring president Brew thanked garden clubs for cooperation and urged restrictions on planting pink trees due to nectar harming orange blossoms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Karl Knorr
Tangerine
Central Florida Beekeepers Association
Knorr
Orlando
Arthur Brew
Oetilla
Ferry
St. Cloud
R. E
Bob
Nonris
Lake County
Orange County
Henry Swanson
Millard Coggshall
Minneola
Umatilla
Association
Coggshall
Garden Club
Directors Named for Lake County Fair Association
The Lake County Fair association announces its 1955 56 slate of directors led by President L L Polk. Named are Donald Conkling KA Deen Dr dB Hall We E Holler G B Hurlburt Al Rehbaum Sr and George J White Sr.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Lake County Fair Association
L. L. Polk
Donald Conkling
KA. Deen
Db Hall We E. Holler
G. B. Hurlburt
al Rehbaum
George J. White
Kiwanis Club to Hear Orville Boyd Speaker
Orville Boyd, president of the Christian Home and Bible School, will address the Kiwanis club today and present students from the school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kiwanis
Orville Boyd
The
Christian Home and Bible School
Kiwanis Club
Do You Dare Rate Your Town Mount Dora Questionnaire
Mount Dora residents are asked to circle Yes or No on a list of 28 questions assessing civic life including schools staying local, easy loan access, active chamber, fair fines, swimming facilities, housing, governance, town entrances, teacher pay, parking, dining, sewer work, volunteers, farm toilets, ambulance service, and zoning. The piece notes Way Town Journal and Bradford County Telegram coverage and November report timing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Town Journal
Florida
Starke
Bradford County Telegram
Mount Dora
Steady Improvement Adds Second Victory Terriers Here Friday
Mount Dora High School hosts Titusville in a Friday night clash after Mount Dora’s 20 12 win over Umatilla. Key players include Jeff Ray Don Gregg Billy Simpson Roland Lane and Bob Alderman among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Titusville Terriers
Mount Dora
Terriers
Ralph Pauley
Central Florida
Hurricanes
Umatilla Bulldogs
Umatilla
Don Gregg
Billy Simpson
Bulldogs
The
Dorans
Hurricane
Jeff Ray
Golden Hurricanes
Dickie Denson
Charlie Brown
Tyrone Parker
Robert Alderman
Thomas Norris
Ted Carey
Robert Wilson
Roland
County Executes Two Drinking Cases
Ray Garner, longtime custodian of the Community building, was fired after a driving while intoxicated charge and is held on a $250 bond. A 50-year-old husband faced county authorities for public drunkenness after his wife sought county handling to push possible jail time and end fines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray Garner
Lou L. Heaton
City Hall heating project panel named by Moon
Council President Wayne Moon appointed Councilman Bill Prinz Ira Kellogg and Gordon Conboy to a committee to study heating and cooling options for City Hall. The panel will solicit bids for the chosen system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wayne Moon
Bill Prinz
Ira Kellogg
Gordon Conboy
Remedies for infestations on citrus and dogwood trees
The Citrus Experiment station advises dusting citrus trees and cover crops with toxaphene or parathion to control pumpkin bugs, or spraying with corresponding strengths, with optional sulfur. For dogwood, Florida experiments suggest weekly sprays in summer to reduce bark beetle damage, or pruning and burning infested twigs if the tree is small.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citrus Experiment Station
Florida Agricultural Experiment Station
University Honors Colburn Former Vermont Art Educator
The University of Vermont passed a resolution honoring Elizabeth V. Colburn in August and sent a copy to Miss Mary B. Colburn in Winter Park. A Florida resident of Mount Dora and Tangerine for six years, Colburn helped found the Mount Dora Art League and taught at Pratt Institute Columbia University before joining Vermont in 1918. She retired in 1943 and was active in Vermont art circles as a speaker juror and promoter of art movements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Vermont
Mary B. Colburn
Winter Park
Elizabeth V. Colburn
Elizabeth Colburn
Mount Dora
Bes
Cicero on the reward of noble actions
A Cicero quote notes that the awareness of performing a splendid act is enough reward. The saying implies intrinsic value in virtue over external praise.
Local Shuffleboard Scene Brightens Community Play
Des Moines visitors join residents for early season shuffleboard at Umatilla County clubs. Notables include E C Musgrave and wife, Mrs Cora Randall, Miss Anne Smith, Mrs Myra Englar, and Mrs John Bridgeman. Club events feature doubles play and a Red and Black scramble with Prizes as high as 50 and 35 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. C. Musgrave
Des Moines
Cora Randall
Anne Smith
Myra Englar
John Bridgeman
SAS
A. J. Whims
Bedford
Ohio
Dad
Dee
Rg 4 City
Myrt
Umatilla
Dykes-Turner
W. L. Gray
A. R. Kinsey
Walter
Estelle Hall
Fred Place
Bert Owens
Frank
Verna Legat
Tom Hunter
Ray Dooley
Jean Herblin
Earl Dodd
Bob Mills
Harry Prentice
Kuhlman
Lodge
Prof
Short
Pete Weaver
Mount Dora Man Held After Western Mount Dora Collision
Mount Dora police report an accident on the Orange Blossom Trail involving Lester Stephens Robie Sr and Donald J Porter. Porter’s car went 240 feet into the parkway before stopping. Stephens liable, to be tried in county court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Dora
Lester Stephens
Robie Sr
James Orr
Donald J. Porter
Eustis
Orange Blossom Trail
Porter
Stephens
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E. M. Remley
Jimmy Hughes
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