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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1929
Page
3
The report notes numerous local residents visiting Jacksonville for a football game and attending gatherings around Tavares. People named include Mrs. Will Nichols, J. M. J., H. C. Duncan, O. Sewell Palmer, Max Barbee, Mrs. Barbee, J. N.vers, S. C. Cooley, J. McCranie, Paul Colbert, and Mrs. B A Cassady, with notes on recent trips, boat rides, picnics, and a picture show attendance.
Florida marks Navy Day with tribute to Roosevelt and the Spanish American War history. The state highlights Key West naval station Pensacola Naval Air Station and coastal protection roles, noting growing maritime trade and ongoing peacetime readiness.
Mrs B A Williams and her daughters Lucile and Barbara spent Sunday in Leesburg with relatives.
A regular weekly P T A gathering for the colored community meets at 8 pm every Monday in East Town. New officers include Elvira Jackson as president and Mamie Gilbert as secretary. Members pledge forty cents monthly, with over thirty four enrolled. The initial funds will buy library books. Colonel Sanborn spoke on industrial education and Negro schooling, inviting further support. A Halloween party is planned at the colored school to aid the school’s interests as it grows this year.
There are more than ninety seven children on the rolls and an average attendance of about eighty five, roughly 25 percent higher than ever before. The school, aided by the Association, plans a larger program this term than in any previous year.
To one quart of hot strained cranberry pulp and juice, add half a cup of minute tapioca a quarter teaspoon of salt and a quarter cup of raisins. Cook in a double boiler for fifteen minutes stirring frequently. Add a cup of sugar four oranges peeled and sliced and a quarter cup of chopped nuts. Chill and serve as a relish with meat.
A simple recipe fragment describes chopping raw onion carrot mango celery and cucumber. The mix is seasoned with salt pepper a dash of vinegar and salad dressing then piled on sliced tomatoes.
The guidance says nut meats in cookies should be broken by hand or cut with a knife. Grinding or chopping is discouraged as it harms flavor.
The Sorrento Home Demonstration Club met Wednesday afternoon in the school auditorium with new agent Miss Allen in attendance giving an engaging talk. The Ladies Aid Society was entertained at Mrs. Harry E. Thomas's Mount Plymouth home last Thursday with a business session followed by refreshments and a social hour.
Mr and Mrs G Cc Battle Ralph Battle and Mrs Ira Connor spent Thursday of last week in Jacksonville.
Mr and Mrs M F Covart and children with Miss Snella Covart and Miss Hattie M Allen spent Sunday in Titusville as guests of Libe Allen.
Misses Julia and Nellie Adams have returned and opened their winter home here after spending the summer in Perrysburg Ohio.
Mr and Mrs P E Register of Jacksonville spent last weekend at Mrs Lola Kennedy s home. F S Battle and the Misses Ida Anna and Del Battle and Hoke Wood were in Tampa Saturday for business and pleasure. Miss Lila Kennedy visited relatives in Jacksonville and attended the Florida Georgia Tech game. Mr and Mrs P S Barber returned after spending the summer in northern states. Truman Royal Clifford and John Laidlaw came back from Cabet Paris where they worked the past summer.
Mr and Mrs E K Martin Ralph Battle Mary Battle and a friend from Stetson University motored to Jacksonville last weekend to attend the Florida Georgia game.
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