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Newspaper
Mount Dora Topic
Location
Mount Dora, Florida, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1943
Page
5
Dr and Mrs H T Fenn announce the engagement of their daughter Martha to Captain Leon B Cheek Jr now stationed at Camp Van Dorn Mississippi. The marriage will take place in December.
The Home Demonstration Club met at the Community Building on Wednesday September 8 with Mrs. Frank Silver leading The Purpose of the Club. An all day meeting is planned for Wednesday September 22. Betty Andrews volunteered to bake the birthday cake and members are asked to bring lunch in lunch box style.
Local notes list residents traveling for work or visiting family across North Carolina New Jersey Ohio and Florida. Several figures recover from illness while others plan trips to California Tampa Jacksonville and Mount Dora with hotel owners, yacht club officials, and bank staff named.
The clipping notes visits and connections among residents and visitors. Neal J. Schnaiker from Shaker Heights previews Greenville Air School in Ocala and recalls college friend Doc Richardson. Mrs. Minna Hegeman returns from Rochester with niece Rosemary Gourley recently graduated cum laude.
Georgia Congress of Parents and Teachers honored Alice M Hilbun Endowment Fund during her administration. He organized the Macon Quill ub.
Mr and Mrs J E Fortner return from a business trip to New York where they visited their son J E Jr stationed in the Signal Service Long Island City He likes the service very much They also stopped in Columbia to visit their daughter and son in law T Sgt E C Mitchell stationed at Fort Jackson The Farmers report a wonderful trip Also Mr and Mrs Frank Sarver returned after a quiet summer at Great Barrington and Seymour Conn Mrs David H Brockett accompanied them and is listed at 620 Fifth Avenue All are glad to be back in Mount Dora for the duration
In a Duke University unit the V-12 college training program prepares Marine officers. Private William C. Kennedy, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Kennedy, is among the hundreds of young men in training. Kennedy, a Florida and Stetson alumnus and Sigma Nu member, studies sciences and undergoes a hard physical course. After one to four semesters they go to Parris Island for boot camp, then Quantico for officer training, and after four months there are assigned as second lieutenants.
A review praising Without Passport as a vivid everyday novel about youth, its fears and problems, with memorable characters like Johnny the naughty boy and Fielding the painter. It lauds the author as a natural storyteller who renders people and places simply yet revealingly. Mount Dora Public Library Committee.
Sorrento Public School opened last Tuesday morning with a very small enrollment. Mrs. Stager of Umatilla will teach this year, and Mrs. Lightfoot, also hired, moved to Paisley school. Visitors and guests include the Cowarts and Miss Allen Cowart in Mascotte, Mrs. Bertie Futral of Jacksonville, and the Walker family from Jacksonville with relatives joining for a few days.
Miss Mary Battle hosted a birthday dinner on September 9 with her brother Ralph Battle as guest of honor. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Torbert sold their Church Street home to Mr. and Mrs. Thompson of Eau Gallie Florida, who will move in next summer after their teaching job ends. Mr. and Mrs. Torbert plan to occupy their post office area home soon. Mrs. Thomas of Miami visited Sorrento friends last week.
The blue steady warning dims lights, the red wavy signal orders blackout, blue steady signals return to dimout, and the white all-clear prompts restoring bright lighting after the all-clear.
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