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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1932
Page
2
The Ladies Aid Society of the Methodist church will meet Friday at 3 PM with Mrs. Slack on Tremain Street for a church gathering and discussion of plans.
The Mount Dora Art League will hold its first meeting of the season with Miss Armstrong on Alexander Street and Sixth Avenue. The gathering is set for Thursday November 3 at 7 30 p m. All who are interested in Art will be welcomed.
The Women’s Missionary Society hosts a reception next Tuesday evening November 3 at 8 o’clock at the church to honor the new pastor and wife Dr and Mrs W R Lambert. Public is invited.
Mrs. A. E. Davis hosted a Monday night party at the Lake Ola home to honor Eva Davis on her birthday. Guests included Doyle Woodward of Orlando, plus Mr. and Mrs. Brando, Bob Jarvis of Tangerine, Mrs. Jessie Albee, and Sidney Lane of Mount Dora.
Fourteen Mount Dora women joined the district meeting of the Methodist Missionary Society in Eustis on October 20. Morning sessions featured the demonstration Building the Well of Salvation and remarks on Our Young People's and Junior Departments by Mrs. John H. Neville. Afternoon business elected officers with Mrs. L. W. Zimmerman of St. Cloud as president for the coming year.
Friday at 1 30 p m the Primary grades will present a health program in the High school auditorium. The event is part of the annual Health and Temperance Day observed by all the schools.
The last Friday program features first grade play Healthy Happy Play with songs and recitations. Second grade stages Health Circus and third grade A Stranger in Good Habit Land. A free will offering funds work books. Rev. G Leon Wells will speak on Health and Temperance to older students.
Miss Mary Jane Eckis of Deering New Hampshire and Mount Dora Florida wed Joseph Baker Swift of Tangerine Florida in an October ceremony at the Deering Center old church. Dr. Daniel A. Poling officiated as decor and musical arrangements highlighted the event. The couple resides at 418 Broadway Orlando following the ceremony.
Personal Charles Keith of Chicago visits Mount Dora for several days. Numerous guests and winter residents arrive in town, including Mr. and Mrs. Carpen, Mr. Stout, Mr. Kennedy, and J. Hardin Peterson visiting as a Democratic candidate. Attendees attend football games in Tampa and Orlando, with many staying at local homes on Ninth Avenue, Alexander Street, and nearby streets for the season.
The Mount Dora Garden club held its first meeting of the year in the Community Building social room on a Wednesday afternoon. Plans for the upcoming season were discussed.
A sketch promotes funds for the Florida Methodist Orphanage at Benson Springs via fifth Sunday collections in Florida churches. Mount Dora church does not regularly participate. Rev. G Leon Wells welcomes contributions and will forward them. Octagon Soap wrappers and coupons support the orphanage, aiding laundry equipment. State Road No 10 in West Florida undergoes hard surfacing from Holley to east of Milton. engineering is complete.
The Wo man’s club in Tavares hosted the Home Demonstration Council meeting with rug displays and a quilt sale to aid 4H girls. Miss Lucy Belle Settle spoke on conservation goals for the coming year. Officers were elected: May Steffens Cassia president Chas Himelsbaugh Tavares first vice Frank Finzel Mount Dora second vice Cox Cassia secretary S. E. Walker Whitney treasurer Roy Kurtz Whitney reporter. The King’s Daughters heard Professor D D Roseborough sponsor an inter class football game for November 16 to benefit their funds. Next meetings set for November 4 in Tavares pavilion and November 8 at Tremain Street residence.
On Monday October 24 fourteen Girl Scouts attended a Halloween party at Mrs Banks. The main game was To the Witches Cave. Refreshments of punch and cookies were served. Mary Elizabeth Simpson, Scribe.
Dr Mildred Marsh states she will be home the last of this week and will reopen her shop Monday keeping to her usual hours once fully recovered.
Special Master will sell at public auction on November 7 1932 at the Lake County Courthouse in Tavares Florida the personal property described in a mortgage securing Wallace M Pike date October 29 1929 and recorded in Record Book No 4 page 394. Items include machinery tools presses and electrical gear totaling multiple equipages. Sale is for cash to the highest bidder during legal hours.
Decree announces sale of described Lake County real property on November 7, 1932. Sheriff Cassady will auction at the Circuit Court House in Tavares for cash to the highest bidder. Attorney Thomas H. Cooley represents the plaintiff Lake County Groves Corporation.
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