FROM THE FILES | 62 years ago -- 1951
Reliving history through the pages of the South Lake Press
FROM THE FILES | 62 years ago -- 1951
Reliving history through the pages of the South Lake Press
Ann Dupee
REMEMBER WHEN
-- Clermont chalked up a record $412,750 in new construction and improvements of properties in 1950. Minneola had $55,000 in new construction.
-- Heading the Eastern Star will be Mrs. Daisy Smith, worthy matron; R. Douglas Smith, worthy patron; Mrs. Hazel Ruth Hunt, associate matron; Espey E. Elliott, associate patron.
-- The Alta Vista subdivision on the south side of Minnehaha Avenue, just west of Bloxam Street, has opened.
-- New Clermont Kiwanis Club officers are: Norman Tuckett, president; Fred L. Wolfe, first vice president; Albert Johnson, second vice president; Reuben Hitchcock, secretary/treasurer; Ellis Konsler, Howard Doland, Art George, Oakley Seaver, Paul Meyerhoff, Gene Cantwell and Forrest Colgrove, directors. Club celebrated its 25th anniversary.
-- Ivy L. Slone, radioman first class, USN, and son of Mrs. R. C. Slone of Clermont, received the Purple Heart for wounds received at Wonson, Korea.
-- Retail Merchants elected officers: Dick Harris, president; J. C. Thompson, vice president.
K A. M. Davis of Groveland was unanimously re-elected chairman of the Lake County Board of Public Instruction for the 16th year. H. K. Stokes of Clermont was elected vice chairman of the Board of County Commissioners.
Members of Cooper Memorial Library Board: Mesdames Ross Arnett, Fred Kreider, Irving Schopmeyer, R.E. Berryman, Paul Giddings, Mrs. Ethlyn Harkell, Mrs. Ellen Willis, Mrs. Minnie Helming and Miss Jane Ford. Expenses last year were $946.13.
Fred L. Wolfe was elected chairman of the Lake County Industrial Development Council.
-- Coggshall Honey House was the only individual exhibition from the area at the Florida State Fair.
-- May King and Queen at Clermont High School were Harold Hunziker and Anne Oliver.
-- Mrs. Julian Rowe and her sister, Mrs. Hazel Halverson, have purchased the former dress shop operated by Mrs. Peek in Grove-land and are opening a new ladies apparel shop.
-- Under the able direction of Postmaster R.O. Seaver, the Clermont post office has enjoyed the unusual distinction of attaining 99 percent efficiency rating in 1949 and an almost unheard of 100 percent in 1950. Employees are: Oakley Seaver; Don E. Smith, rural carrier, route 1; John Schop-meyer, Mrs. Johnnie Watson, Robert Zoppi and Daniel Hatcher, clerks; Arthur Guenther, rural carrier route 2.
-- Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Dull announced the wedding of their daughter, Hilda, to Claude Arthur Teachout.
-- One of the oldest establishments on Montrose Street, the Seaver and Harmon Barber Shop, took on a new look. The original barbershop was opened in 1913 by R.P. Seaver (the same year the South Lake Press came to life in Clermont) and moved to the present location in 1917. In 1946 F.C. Harmon entered the organization.
-- Armour Star lamb legs, 68 cents per pound; Palm River sliced bacon, 38 cents per pound; white potatoes, 10 pounds for 29 cents; Star Kist chunk style tuna, 6 1/2 ounce, 33 cents; all popular brands cigarettes, $1.99 per carton.
-- New officers of Clermont Garden Club are: Mrs. O. J. Priebe, president; Mrs. J. R. Grant, first vice president; Mrs. T. C. Cork Sr., second vice president; Circle chairmen, Mrs. R. V. Bakeman, Indian Hills; Mrs. J. R. McCown, Hibiscus; Mrs. A. A. Futch, Town and Country.
-- Don Meeker was elected commander of American Legion Post 55.
-- Mrs. Gerhard Sterling, Blue Island, Ill., was honored guest at a dessert-bridge given by her sister, Mrs. Dick Kurfiss.
-- Fire Chief Albie Sheldon reported the new fire truck is complete and in operation.
-- The new Clermont-Minneola School cafeteria opened.
-- Clermont High School graduate Walter O. Marshall was one of 20 students tapped for membership in Florida Blue Key, an honorary leadership fraternity for men and the highest honor a University of Florida man can receive.
-- Bowman and Brown Realty reported the sale of a Lake Minnehaha lakefront lot to Martin P. Winther of Gates Mills, Ohio.
-- New officers of Clermont Junior Woman's Club: President Mrs. Frances Hayes; First Vice President Mrs. Hilda Teachout; Second Vice President Mrs. Irma Sickler; Treasurer Mrs. Mary Cashwell; Secretary Miss Ruth Patterson; Finance Chairman Mrs. Minnie Viti.
-- Mr. B. J. Newbold opened his new 5 and 10 Cents store in the Barr Building on Montrose Street.
1922
One of the most important real estate deals made in this vicinity recently was closed when P.J. Pool and son, C.M. Pool, came here from Winter Haven and bought the John Hooks land, 147 acres, lying in the southwest part of the city, inside the corporate limits.
About 40 acres are now in grove, said to be among the best in this section. The Pools will immediately take steps to develop the remainder of the land, planting 40 acres to tangerines and 40 to Temple groves.
Coming here from Winter Haven where they already own several hundred acres of grove land, these gentlemen can see in the Clermont section a wonderful future for the citrus industry.
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