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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1930
Page
2
King's Daughters will meet at Mrs. Geo Pray's home at 5th and Highland on Wednesday evening September 10. A September 3 card party at the Community Building raised funds to complete a $100 matching gift from Mr. Gorham for the Circle's work.
An all day celebration Sunday at the home of Mr and Mrs A H Taylor honored Mrs W T Treadwell, the celebrant mother of Mrs Taylor. A noon dinner accompanied a traditional birthday cake marked Happy Birthday, with guests including Mr and Mrs Jack Wilkerson and son Charles of Mount Dora and Mr and Mrs O C Flowers of Ocklawaha Florida.
The Overhiser Circle of the Baptist church met with Mrs. H. A. Eckholdt on Tuesday of last week to celebrate her birthday. Fifteen members attended the business session and many more joined the party. Guests shared home made cookies and birthday cake with punch, and sent cards letters and telegrams from relatives and friends in other cities.
Mrs. Emory Close and two children hosted in Miami. Mrs. Sally Lawrence plans eye surgery recovery at home in Orlando. Mr. and Mrs. Watt return to Mount Dora for winter after summer in New England. Mrs. Emily B. Adams and grandson back from Mount Kisco to spend winter in Mount Dora. Raymond Perkins leaves for University of Florida after Connecticut summer. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Smith and daughter back in Mount Dora after summer in Patogue New York. Wm. Rehbaum Jr and friend visit Mount Dora from Clearwater. Mrs. A. J. Pearson returns to Mount Dora from Cleveland with daughter Miss Yvonne Malusky enrolled in school.
Community notices list E Bell dinner host and guests from Eustis to Cedartown. Cadman family and others back from Ohio and North Carolina. Teachers Miss Oman and Miss Hubbell return to Mount Dora schools. Dr T R Spencer operated in Orlando. Keller family resuming Mergenthaler duties after visiting Bat Cave. local rotations of residents and staff noted.
At a Boy Scouts Court of Honor in Cambridge Minnesota Troop 135 Eagle Scouts Edmund Flink George Engberg Clemens Fredeen and Norman Butler received their badges. A bolt of lightning knocked down several scouts but no injuries occurred and the investiture resumed after a brief halt.
A rural couple documents nine months of chicken records showing 163 eggs per day? no. The Mary and Spuds Johnson story explains how keeping records boosted profits from about 500 to 250 in nine months with 125 birds. They plan to expand flocks and reenter the Home Egg Laying Contest next October along with neighbors.
Florida Forest Service reports organized protection covering 1,187,963 acres across 11 units, up from 670,285 acres last year. About 60 landowners cooperate with 18 fire towers and new telephone lines. Plans call for another 500,000 acres under protection this Fall, plus 700,000 acres on nearby national forests, reaching over 2.4 million acres or about 10 percent of Florida’s forested land.
The text argues that without adequate funding and local flexibility education tends toward coercive central control. It cites history showing specialists may use political grants to push agendas, urging continued support for local experimentation and research. It contrasts bureaus with limited legal power, which expand inquiry and local cooperation when endowed intellectually.
Florida newspapers played a major role in the ninth annual Farmers and Fruit Growers Week at Gainesville. A.P. Spencer notes record attendance of about 1,700 from 57 counties and around 200 more visitors, with radio broadcasts reaching an estimated 10,000 who could not attend. Nate M. Reece of the Florida Press Association echoes the positive impact of the event.
Construction of a 75000 dollar creamery and refrigeration plant will begin immediately. Palm Beach town buys lake front property at the foot of Australian avenue from Earl Deakin and plans to fill and park the entire lake front strip.
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