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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 07, 1939
Page
5
A social event hosted by Mrs Benjamin Cook is planned on the Old Eustis road. Cars will leave the church at 2 45 and transportation will be furnished for those who wish to attend.
Mrs Frank Burkart hosted a luncheon and swimming party at her Sylvan Shores home on Monday for her house guest Elizabeth Garcia of Jacksonville. Attending Elizabeths Mary Elizabeth class included Roseborough Lena Harding Cooper Florence Fenton Grace Lee and Dorothy Geiger.
The elementary faculty will meet Friday afternoon at Miss Elizabeth West’s home for social time and to discuss plans for the coming year. Attendees include Misses Elsie Turner Vivia Craig Doris Camp Virginia Bardeen Jane McCown and Elizabeth West. The group will convene at the high school third grade room with D. D. Roseborough at one o'clock Saturday afternoon.
Mrs Silas G Benedict announces the marriage of her daughter Helen Bellringer to Wilbur Renfrew McElroy on Saturday at St Marys Episcopal Church Waynesboro Pennsylvania The bride is one of the Bellringer twins who left ten years ago to live in Waynesboro and has since completed her college work.
A small group attended a program picnic supper on the porch of the Masonic Building. Present were Mrs. J. M. Smith and daughter, Mrs. Hannah Davis, Mrs. Cliff White, Miss Gladys Simpson, Mrs. Jennie Stovall.
A Florida Sigma Chi Rush event gathered alumni and friends at Mrs. Samuel S. Sadler’s Tangerine home with entertainment including swimming dancing boating and aquaplaning. Gamma Theta Chapter and Southeast alumni plan another Gainesville dance to conclude summer social activities.
Bob Burns headlines a colorfully written drama as a lawyer philosopher in a 100 percent American role. Susan Hayward and Joseph Allen Jr co star with Elizabeth Patterson Gene Lockhart and Charles Bickford amid a plot of pay cuts strike breakers and a bombing as townsfolk rally for order.
A Sunday meeting hosted by Mr and Mrs S S Sadler Jr and Mrs Samuel S Sadler Sr with Miss Frances Sadler drew a list of attendees from across Florida. Participants included Rhoda Sison Bill Stewart Shirley Coen Bobby Wells Ellen Schrup Steve Harvey Gladys Simpson Roy Christopher Tom Hurlburt from Mount Dora Frank Bennett Lorraine Frash John Edward Merrill Barbara Lindner Sammy Pyles Anna Sands Red Phillips Reuben Sanders Rachel Reynolds Sally Anna Wasson Paul Swink Jr Gene Bryant from Ocala Charles Lassiter Marion Morris Charlie Taylor Alice McKinstry and others from Gainesville Tampa St Petersburg Jacksonville Leesburg Kissimmee and more.
Personal notices list many residents returning from trips and visits. Frank Davidson, S. C. Colley, F. O. Brando, Bill Taylor, H T Fenn, H A Vinton, Frances Sadler, Jeannette Pike, John Key, Martha Fenn, A H Dickey, Irene Brooks, Lucy Alderman, G B Hurlburt and Tom are named with journeys to New York, Bedford New York, Hendersonville, Jacksonville, North Carolina, Texas, Ohio, and other locales.
Mount Dora figures spent the summer in Massachusetts and joined Labor Day beachgoers. Miss Grace Butterfield left for Camp McQuarrie for a few days and was to return today. Donald Strickland of Mount Dora stayed at the Hotel Roosevelt in Jacksonville last Wednesday. Lem Downs and John Duncan visited Daytona Beach while Henry and Mrs Land returned from Gatlinburg Tennessee after a week’s vacation.
The column recounts local residents and visitors spending Labor Day and late summer in Daytona Beach Sylvan Shores and Mount Dora. It notes arrivals and returnees including Miss Leila Killian George Cornelius Dr H S Bradley and many families with travels to Detroit Louisville New York Toronto and Cleveland and mentions Miss Bobby Page from Toronto visiting.
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Church will hold a meeting Monday at 3 PM in the church parlors. All are invited to attend.
The article previews Bing Crosby headlining at the State Theatre in Eustis with a program of popular songs and new tunes by Johnny Burke and James V. Monaco. It highlights Crosby’s rise from penniless songwriter to radio star in a Paramount feature The Star Maker and notes supporting cast members and the orchestral accompaniment.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon releases Our Battle as a counter to Mein Kampf. Kaltenborn calls it a blazing historian’s torrent against Nazism, praising its indignation at Nazi indecencies and noting Hitler’s propaganda reach across the Atlantic.
A new health education plan for Florida public schools was adopted and issued as a teacher bulletin after a two week joint conference at the University of Florida in Gainesville. The event brought together educators from public schools statewide to shape the revised curriculum and teaching guidelines.
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