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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1932
Page
2
The W, C, T, U will hold a meeting at the Community church chapel on Monday September 5 at 3 p m Miss Fitch is in charge of the program.
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist church will meet with Miss M. J. Fairley at her Grandview Street home Friday at 3 o clock in the afternoon.
The next King's Daughters meeting is moved from September 6 to September 13. It will be hosted by Mrs Carrie Kimball with Mrs R C Shipes as associate hostess.
Mrs Ida Battle of Sorrento announces the engagement of her daughter Dorothy to Mr Alexander James Stupple of Chicago Illinois. The wedding is planned for early fall.
Mrs William Williamson entertained the sewing club at her home last Monday night with about 19 members present. Home made cookies and iced tea were served. The next meeting will be at Mrs C E Burchett on Gorham street Monday afternoon September 12 from 2 to 5 o'clock. Sisters note the date change.
Mrs Jonathan Smith hosted a Tuesday afternoon birthday gathering on August 23 at 810 Fifth Avenue to celebrate her child's fourth birthday with family and friends.
A party hosted by a local hostess featured pink white and green decor. Prizes went to Warren Story Jr Edward Sirmons and Audrey McNair. A birthday cake with candles was cut and served. Assisting guests included Mrs E B Arnold Mrs Henry Gast and Mrs F L Carden. Present were Elsie Essie Simmons Frances Barbara Carden Audrey McNair Warren Story Jr Joe Gast and Billy Arnold.
Mrs Iris Martin and Miss Mary Battle hosted a pink decorated bridge shower at their Sorrento home for Dorothy Battle whose engagement has been announced. Guests from Miss Battle’s graduating class attended, and gifts were presented from a large basket trimmed in white ribbon after prizes and a salad course.
E. O. Taylor D D in Short Studies in Scientific Temperance states that alcohol is a brain poison, contrasting other poisons and their targeted organs, noting how lead affects wrist muscles and other substances damage different body parts. The passage links alcohol to brain harm specifically.
A writer outlines when to double in Auction or Contract bridge as a business tool. It contrasts free doubles and forced doubles, stresses adding quick tricks from both partners, and urges doubling only to defeat the contract. It includes example holdings and guidance on partner duty.
Local notices recount residents visiting Daytona Beach and returning to Mount Dora and surrounding towns. Names include Mrs. B. F. Williamson, Miss Betty West, Miss Carrie True, Mr. and Mrs. William Lafroos, Miss Georgia Kirby, Mrs. Hope Merrick, Miss Harriet Banks, Miss Esther Cadman, Miss Ahna Blake, Miss Ruth Morgan, and others. Travel to DeLand Lan tana Micanopy St. Peters burg and Lake Franklin Park noted along with stays in Daytona Beach and Mount Dora.
Day trips and weddings fill a Mount Dora segment as families arrive for vacations. Alfred Lane and son David visit from Twinsburg Ohio with Lane relatives, while A H Butts of Fort Lauderdale spends time with sister-in-law in Mount Dora after Asheville. Frances Bloodgood returns from New England trip with Boston visits. Claude Chapman family reports optimism in Georgia cotton regions amid higher prices and brighter business mood.
Mr and Mrs Homer Morris return to Mount Dora from northern Georgia where Mrs Morris and the children spent the summer. Mr Morris moved up a week ago. They report a delightful time and are glad to be back.
Mr and Mrs Sam Sadler and Miss Frances left Saturday morning for Kentucky to enroll Frances at the Tait school for the term. They will then travel to Waynesville North Carolina for about two weeks. Miss A M Ryan has returned to the Senebeesee at a telegraph office. She spent her vacation visiting Mount Dora Hendersonville and Daytona Beach. Mrs Estella Clark left for Charleston to visit her son Harry for one or two weeks and planned to meet daughter Mrs Evelyn McDowell in Valdosta while she travels from Macon Georgia with her children.
The American Legion and Auxiliary announce a Fish Fry at Trimble Point on Thursday evening September 1 at 5 30. All members urged to attend.
The note comments that following the First National Bank's advice could improve everyone's finances, implying the bank’s guidance is valuable and worth heed.
The Florida Farm Hour on WRUF broadcasts daily next week with College of Agriculture staff. Topics include Florida Farm News, diversified truck farming, bean insect control, mushroom culture, seed corn, and citrus fertilization. Home makers get a 15 minute Florida Home Period each morning at 9 45. The 4 H program airs Friday night from Hillsborough County.
A coast to coast NBC network will air the fourth 4H club radio broadcast on Saturday September 3 from 12 30 to 1 30 E S T Delaware and New York club members will speak and the U S Marine band will perform early American music Florida stations carrying the program are WJAX WIOD and WSUN
Easter lilies should be planted about the middle of September to bloom for Easter. A thermos bottle belongs in the school lunch basket. Radios and refrigerators begin with R the Crosley is different. See it at Mount Dora Radio Company shop. Woodland Dairy has a good dairy inspection record.
The card party for relief of unemployment at the Grand View last Friday raised 7.00 for the committee. Prizes were donated by local women and won by several residents including Mrs. Harlow and Dr. Elizabeth Waller. The final event is planned for Friday September 9 at 2 30 at the Grand View Hotel with punch and ice provided by local donors.
An old advertisement promotes Carter's Little Liver Pills as the remedy to restore bile flow, claiming digestive improvement and renewed energy. It warns against laxatives and other products, notes the red label, and prices the 25 cent bottle from C M Co in 1931.
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