Lois Driver Wins Wildwood Queen Crown at Labor Day Pageant
Mount Dora High School senior Lois Driver was crowned queen at Wildwood Labor Day festival beating seven blondes and one other brunette. She received a diamond ring, a week’s Coral Gables vacation with her mother as chaperone, a dresser set, and a choice of beauty treatments, while her fiancé Harold Stewart of St Petersburg is noted.
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Lois Driver
Lovely Lois
Mount Dora High School
Wildwood
Lois
Charlotte Baker
Harold Stewart
St. Petersburg
Saints
Coral Gables
Melbourne
J. E. Driver
Briggs Digs A Laugh Topic Column Debuts
Local notes reveal a new Topic column titled Briggs' Digs to appear on Page B. The piece mentions columnist Harry W. Tien writing from Mount Dora and hints at lively, controversial content with a series of libel warnings.
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Briggs
Harry W. Tien
Daep
Mount Dora
License Sale Set For Sept 23 at Mount Dora Chamber
County Judge A S Herlong announced that drivers licenses go on sale September 23 at the Mount Dora Chamber of Commerce. Licenses must be obtained by September 30 to avoid a $1 penalty or to take a driver’s examination. Forest fires and insects consume 15 percent of the nation’s timber annually.
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Mount Dora
French Teacher Learns Of America Beautiful At Underground Leave
Miss Francine Schyns of Paris attended the Florida Conference of the Methodist Youth Fellowship at Mount Plymouth where delegates from France China and other nations gathered. The French underground member will return to France next Tuesday after a year in the United States studying education and working in rail traffic during the war. She praised America as wonderful and free while recalling her family's hardships under German occupation. More than 200 delegates gathered for the closing sessions led by Rev. George Gibson with Bob White of Mount Dora as president.
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League
Doris Harding
Mount Dora
Florida State University
League of Nations
Florida
Methodist Youth Fellowship
Mount Plymouth Hotel
Lida Ling
Shanghai
China
Florida Southern College
de Fernandes
Cuba
Harding
Francine Schyns
Paris
France
The
Underground
Bob White
Palmetto
George J. White
Warren W. Willis
Lakeland
George Gibson
Mount Dora’s
Methodist
Luis Diaz de Arce
Havana
Mount Plymouth
Wuna
America
Allice A la Resistance Francaise
Americ
Methodist Church Conference
Chilren
Wisconsin
Methodist Youth Organization
Dora’s Methodist Church
George White
Legion members volunteer for weed clearing at Veterans Memorial
The American Legion calls on members to donate time and labor on Sunday to clear weeds at the Veterans Memorial home on Highland Avenue so construction under the new bond program can begin. Refreshments will be provided for volunteers.
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American Legion
Veterans Memorial Home
Highland Av
Cast ers Schedule
Members of the Caster's club will meet each Tuesday after school at Gilbert Park Margot Hosford, instructor, announces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilbert Park
Margot
Hosford
Lawyers Ponder Course On Resignation In Mount Dora
The looming resignation of Mount Dora Mayor J. E. Fortner prompts lawyers to analyze the city charter to determine succession. The 1910 charter with 1925 and 1932 revisions requires no special election and designates the council president to serve the unexpired term, with council reorganization in January shaping the next mayor.
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J. E. Fortner
Mount Dora
Tom Cooley
Cooley
Fortner
R. R. Eddy
Otis Hale
D. Fletcher Crane
Rolly Morse
Roy Christopher
Personalities Around Mount Dora Feature Gilbert Family Ties
The week highlights two figures linked to Mount Dora through the Gilbert family, Miss Lucy Gilbert private secretary to Governor Caldwell and her sister Mrs Margaret Urquhart Rodgers of Eustis. It recalls the Gilberts as Florida pioneers and details Calvin and Margaret Gilbert moving from Ohio to Minnesota in an ox drawn wagon.
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Mount Dora
Eustis
Tallahassee
Gilbert
Lake Dora
Gilbert Park
Clayton
Liberty
Margaret Gilbert
Ohio
Minnesota
Mrs. Gilbert
Florida
Lucy Gilbert
Gilbert Family History Ties Florida Pioneers Across Mount Dora
Tallahassee sisters visit Mount Dora as R. J. Longstreet, Daytona Beach educator and Gilbert descendant, brings notes on Dr Calvin Gilbert and Lola Etta Gilbert. He plans to publish Calvin Gilbert’s diary, revealing early Florida settlement links with the Gilberts and local families like Vrookman and the Longstreets.
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Tallahassee
Rodgers
Mount Dora
Dr. Gilbert
R.J. Longstreet
C. H. Longstreet
R. J
Daytona Beach
Florida
Gilbert
Lola Etta Gilbert
H. C. Longstreet
Daytona
Gilberts
Charles Vrookman
Almeda Gilbert
Margaret
Calvin
Mr. Longstreet
Calvin Gilbert
Lady Gilbert
Dora area growers hail shipping curb on grapefruit
The Federal Citrus Marketing Committee endorses a curb on grapefruit shipments in Mount Dora area as the citrus year begins. The rules restrict white seeded grapefruit to 70 per box and white seedless to 96 per box, with October shipments possible for Dora fruit. Growth prospects cite favorable Florida conditions. farmers expect many early shipments to be affected.
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Federal Citrus Marketingent Committee
Mount Dora
Florida
Dora
G. B. “Crip” Hurlburt
Hurlburt
Howard Simpson
Simpson Packing Co
Secretary of Agriculture
U. S
Water Analysis Snafu Creeps Into Memo to Jimmy Dean
A memo urges Jimmy Dean to have water from his irrigation well analyzed after a tale of a son seeing a big black bear. The note links drinking water to temperance, mentions Dizzy the dog, Bob Widmer, Ray Northrope, J. M. Greene, Pinecrest, and a housing project, and warns against misusing the water for flower beds.
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Jimmy Dean
Jimmy
Jacksonville
Dizzy
Ray Northrope
Bob
J. M. Greene
Pinecrest
Zennias
Kiwanis To Elect Officers At Noon Luncheon
Past president George J. White will chair the nominating committee for Kiwanis as officers are elected at today’s noon luncheon in the Community building.
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Kiwanis
George J. White
Council Meets Tonight On Light Plant
Mount Dora City Council meets tonight to review findings on building a new light plant to offset higher electricity costs. A council committee report on recent investigations of New Smyrna and Daytona Beach will be presented after a Wednesday diesel plant tour led by Mayor J E Fortner.
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Rehbaum Hardware
Henry
Rehbaum
Ee Sorrento
Lions
AM & S
Sorrento
Rehbaums
Crane
Zellwood
Mount Dora
New Smyrna
Daytona Beach
J. E. Fortner
Mayor Fortner
D. Fletcher Crane
al Rehbaum, Jr
R. C. Bardwell
R. R. Eddy
Harold Overhiser
Tom Cooley
William Stewart
Rev Gibson to Direct Mount Dora Music Department
Reverend George Gibson, pastor of the Method ist church, will lead the Mount Dora schools music department. He directs the band lecture and teaches music while remaining as pastor. The appointment replacing Mrs. Bennett Land is temporary, per supervising principal D D Roseborough.
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George Gibson
Methodist Church
Mr. Gibson
Mount Dora
Gibson
Bennett Land
D. D. Roseborough
Match For Rabbits Ad Tops Topic Classifieds
Ernest Zepplin of Zepplin's Rabbitry at 601 Fifth Ave found demand for prize winning heavy weight Chinchillas bred for meat and fur from Red White and Blue Seal Show stock. He sold 15 rabbits by Thursday evening and was out by Saturday. his four time ad was postponed to let stock catch up.
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Ernest Zepplin
Zepplin
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Nat Wallace
49Ers
Lions Club
Ernie Mosteller
Henry Beims
Holly Hills
Little House
Brenwood Studio
Mabel Norris Reese
West
Lucy
Dora Area
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