Lawn by Lex returns with reader letters from far and near
A long letter from Ray and Leontine MacNulty opens a winter return column. Ray reports cataract surgery successful but tedious and limiting activities. Other letters describe golfing, travel from Greenville Maine, and updates from the Skeels, Leeburgs, and Meech. Readers promise more excerpts next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ray
Leontine MacNulty
Grace Salt
Mildred
Rufus Howe
Crestview
Lloyd
Louise Goddu
Greenville
Anita
Bill
Gladys
Ted Foley
Jean
Percy Shaffer
Skeels
John
Lois
New Hampshire
Cape Cod
Legion supper honors staters in Sorrento Mt. Dora post
Mt. Dora Post 35 invites all to a covered dish supper on September 13 at 6 30 p.m. to honor Boys and Girls Staters who spoke about their Tallahassee week learning politics and government. Attendees bring a covered dish and table service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Legionnaires
Mt. Dora
Tallahassee
St. John P. B
Rora Anderson Still
Greater St. Mary Baptist Church
Rev
A. Russell
Anderson & Hence Funeral
Wildwood
Still
Waterman Memorial Hospital
Eustis
Edgewood Cemetery
Servicemen Graduates Report From Navy Basic Training
Mount Dora brothers John Jr. and Roger Cain graduate from Navy Basic Training at Great Lakes. John Jr. tops class. Both join USS Sperry in Newport Rhode Island. Lt Victor A. Lent earns army aviator wings at Hunter Army Airfield Georgia. Lent and wife reside in Savannah Beach. Also noted: Cpl Lewis C. Brown Jr serving Vietnam, Gary N. Brown with MP Battalion in Vietnam, Ale James Davis in U S Air Force at Pope AFB North Carolina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jr
Roger Cain
Mount Dora
Navy
Great Lakes
Sperry
Newport
R. I
Victor A. Lent
U. S. Army
A. V. Lent
Plymouth
Hunter Army Airfield
Lent
Anna
Lovell
Savannah Beach
Lake County motor vehicle inspection stations set new hours
Lake County inspection stations announce updated hours. Mon 1 PM to 5 PM and 6 PM to 10 PM. Tue to Fri run 8 AM to 12 noon and 1 PM to 5 PM. Stations currently operate below capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake County
Local Shuffleboard Notes and Historical Gatorade Mention
The report covers Mount Dora and surrounding areas with shuffleboard rounds in Clermont on Sept. 2 and 3, naming teams and scores. It notes hospitalizations, a Bangor Maine recovery, a Nixon Daley ambassador suggestion, and regimental ads on GM Ford Chrysler Seagrams. It also cites Dr Robert Cade creating Gatorade at the University of Florida and its early adoption by Stokley.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miller Tyson
Mount Dora
Hendersonville
N. C
Lake County
Clermont
Albert Oatts
Nina Patch
Carroll Patch
William Nolet
Arch Gano
Mrs. Patch
Fred Brehaut
Douglas Fletcher
Joseph Smith
Marie Brauneis
Smith-Braun
Brauneis-Rohm
Clarence Owen
Albert Oatis
Frank Meyers
Owen - Oatis
Albert Owen
Harland
Nixon
Richard Daley
Soviet Union
Chicago
General Motors Corp
Ford
Chrysler Corp
Seagrams
Betsy Ross
Congress
Alaska
Mississippi River
Jefferson
James Monroe
Paris
Robert R. Livingston
Mississippi
New Orleans
Robert Cade
University of Florida
Stokley
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lex
Newcastle
Ibby Leeburg
Ed Meech
Lake Saunders
Bill Warner
Kathy Lee
Lou Heaton
Scotty
Esther Downs
Wesley Manor
Bridgy
Kellogs
Eckleys
Sorrento
Mt. Plymouth
Linda
Ronnie Sessions
Daytona Beach
Mary
Sam Hodges
Raymond Sessions
Earl Hodges
Ocala Forest
Doris
Mac
McKinna
Mr. van Valkenburg
Joe Boles
Cpl
Lewis C. Brown Jr
Lewis C Brown Sr
1St Force Reconnaissance Co
Vietnam
Gary N. Brown
Lewis C, Brown Sr
1St
M.P. Bn
D”’ Co
Ale James Davis
Thomas Davis
U. S. Air Force
Pope Air Force Base
Sarge
BY Fred Steele
Frederick Garbe
Arlington, Va
Amherst
Mass
Long Island, N. Y
Bessie Economos
Qur
L. Forrest Deane
Edna
Bangor
Maine
State St
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