Acton Fair Horse Show Takes Shape Amid 4-H Events
The seventh annual Acton Fair Class B Horse show is set for 10 30 a m August 26 on the second day of the 96th Acton Fair. Cash prizes total 1000 across 31 classes with ribbons and trophies. Entries to Mrs Swasey Fre-Mar Stables Scarborough. Judge will be Mrs John Karahalis. Officials include Fred Swasey, Helen Holden, Cliford Olsen and P O Tracy. Also planned is the York County 4 H Horse Clubs show at 1 p m August 25 at the fairgrounds for York 4 H members and new premiums. Planning committee members include Miss Sally Littlefield, Miss Sherry Butland and Miss Joan Landry Dayton.
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Marion M. Swasey
Scarborough
Swasey
Fre-Mar Stables
Rfc 2
John Karahalis
Byfield
Mass
Fred F.swasey
Helen Holden
Westbrook
Cliford Olsen
P.O. Tracy
Cape Elizabeth
York County
Elizabeth Syvinski
York
Donors Back Kennebunk Beach Project With Purchase
The Kennebunk Beach Improvement Association, 120 members, bought the Dipsy Baths at Lord's Point for 60000 from Calvin Peters. Members voted to raise more to raze the buildings and possibly add a swimming pool and tennis courts, amid dissatisfactions with the property. Gordon Smith reports encouraging support from about 70 donors since July 17 sale papers were signed. Several contributors have pledged larger sums, including PhiIip Chase with his bath house nearby.
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Kennebunk Beach
Mae
Bete Teen More
Associaton
Philip Chase
Kennebunk and Nearby Visitations Report
Mrs Ella Miller of Reistertown Maryland visits son and daughter in law Mr and Mrs James E Miller on High Street. Mrs Felix Skibicki returns home from Webber Hospital. Mr and Mrs Keneth Slowik and daughter Nancy return to New Haven Connecticut after a week with Mr and Mrs Leon C Hicks on High Street. Weekend guests at the Hicks.
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Ellis Lee Perry
John
Arlington
Mass
Olive Johnson
Muriel Johnson
High Street
Boothbay Harbor
Squirrel Island
Leo Brisard
Fletcher Street
Ross Road
Onald Rose
Agnes Lupien
Harry Manseau
Strayhorn
Summer Street
Ella Miller
Reistertown
James E. Miller
Felix Skibicki
Brown Street
Webber Hospital
Keneth Slowik
Nancy
New Haven
Con
Leon C. Hicks
The
Hicks
Scouts Aid White Cane Drive At Wells
The Wells-Ogunquit Lions join a national White Cane fund drive to aid the blind and eye health. Wells Boy Scout Joop 353 assists by placing collection boxes and canvassing homes during the summer manpower gap. King Lion G Maynard Trafton and Charles H Gray lead the Wells effort as part of the local eye conservation program.
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Wells-Ogunquit
Wells
Joop
King Lion
G. Maynard Trafton
Charles H. Gray
Beach Native Is Speaker At Commencement
Dr. Patricia R. Plante of Old Orchard Beach will headline the commencement exercises for the Melrose Wakefield Hospital School of Nursing in Melrose Massachusetts on August 31. A native of Old Orchard Beach, she has held teaching posts at Boston University Emerson College and Plymouth State Teachers College, and earned a BA from New Rochelle College and St. Joseph’s College New York in 1955, an MA from St. Michael’s College in 1958, with Woodrow Wilson fellowship 1960-61.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patricia R. Plante
Old Orchard Beach
Melrose-Wakefield Hospital School of Nursing
Melrose
Mass
Maine
Richard Plante
Farmington State ‘Teachers College
Boston University
College of Liberal Arts
Emerson College Boston
Local families share events from 4H picnic to reunions
Lebanon and York Beach scenes reveal a busy social period. Wesley Bumford family attended a 4H picnic at York Beach aiding transport. Melvin Tufts left for a Radio Station job at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, with mother Jenette Tufts visiting her sister May Stetson in Staten Island. George and Mary Stuart kin hosted a reunion at the family home now occupied by John Brooks, with many relatives from Center Lebanon, Arlington Massachusetts, and Little River. Additional notices include Brenda Moulton at Camp Cedar Cove in Lake Cobosso conte, Litchfield, and multiple visits and vacations among Rand, Grant, Randall, Swimaner, Allard, Higgins, and Tman families across several New England towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wesley Bumford
York Beach
Melvin Tufts
Bob Jones University
S.t Carolina
Jenette Tufts
Staten Island
May Stetson
George and
Mary Stuart
John Brooks ‘Stuart
John Brooks
Charles Torne
Evelyn Stuart
Max
Larry
Patricia
Little River
George Stuart
Gail
James
Keith
Joanne
Mark
Center Lebanon
George Pickering
Ruth
Janet
Arlington
Mass
Pickering
Winifred Stuart
Brenda Moulton
Camp Cedar Cove
Lake Cobossoconte
Litchfield
Robert
Lori
Lottie Swimaner
Dorchester
Phil Allard
Sanford
Steve Higgins
Rochester
N.H
Carol
Terry
Chris
Grace T.man
Glastonbury
Conn
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Garland
Mev Jo
Famous Mills
Acton
Kennebunk
Edmund Cashen
Beach
Lebanon
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