Acton Fair Opens With Woodchopping Show and Parade
Acton proceeds with its 97th annual Fair opening Thursday through Sunday featuring woodchopping exhibitions, a Bucksawing contest for 4 H members, and a York County Apple Princess coronation. The schedule includes horse pulling, cattle judging, horse shows, pig scrambles, parades led by the Sanford Springvale band, and a midway with rides. The event adds an agricultural extension exhibit, a York County Rabbit Breeders show, flower show, and farm equipment displays, with routes on Route 109 six miles north of Sanford.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Acton
Eastcoast
York County
Sanford-Springvale
Agricultural Extension Service
York County Rabbit Breeders Association
Sanford
Vicki Elaine Witham Celebrates Sixth Birthday at Home
Miss Vicki Elaine Witham marked her sixth birthday with a party at her parents home in Kennebunk. Gifts were opened then a social afternoon with refreshments and a multicolor cake made by her mother Mrs Witham. Attendees included Cindy and Evelyn Bush Becky and Belinda Cowgill Diane Giles Sheila Campbell Gary and Craig Leech Louis Salvato and Vicki’s sisters Sheila and Gayle and Mrs Albert Cowgill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicki Elaine Witham
Earl Witham
Fletcher Street
Kennebunk
Mrs. Witham
Cindy
Evelyn Bush
Becky
Belinda Cowgill
Diane Giles
Sheila Campbell
Gary
Craig Leech
Louis Salvato
Vicki
Sheila
Gayle
Albert Cowsgill
Residents and Visitors in Old Orchard Beach Community Notes
Mrs Anne Lublinsky returns home on Atlantic Avenue after visiting Pittsfield. She attended Critic's Choice at Lakewood with Alan Ludden and Betty White and the Skowhegan Fair. Mr Ivan Aranovitch and family from Bryan Ohio visit Fern Avenue for two weeks and Mrs Aranovitch is honored at a Hi Lo club luncheon. Edith Gallant attends funeral services in Lewiston for Cora Payne Greenleaf, former Old Orchard resident and sister of Gov. and Sen. Frederick Payne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne Lublinsky
Atlantic Avenue
Hazel Penney
Pittsfield
Lakewood
Alan Ludden
Betty White
Skowhegan Fair
Ivan Aranovitch
Bryan
Ohio
Fern Avenue
Aranovitch
Hi-Lo Club
Archie Drogutis
David Marshall
Harold Horne
Samuel Lublinsky
Claire Soule
Edith Gallant
Michaud Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Lewiston
Cora (Payne) Greenleaf
Old Orchard
Maine
Frederick Payne
Arthur Parks Tells Kiwanians Of Yugoslavia
Arthur Parks, back from eight months in Yugoslavia installing textile equipment for Saco Lowell shops, spoke to Old Orchard Beach Kiwanis at the American Legion hall. He described the country, customs, and shared photos. The meeting, led by President Alphonse Monier, included notes on the Kiwanis parking meter project, a Red Cross water safety donation, and readers from York County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Parks
Yugoslavia
Saco- Lowell
Old Orchard Beach
Roland Mewer
Dimes
Kiwanis
Warren Peterson
York County
Olive Rebekahs Nominate Staff To Be Elected
Olive Rebekah lodge held its second officer nomination at IOOF hall with noble grand Mildred Redson presiding. Invitations went to Forest Rebekah Lodge for September 13 to hear a United Nations delegate and to York lodge for a Kit tery meeting of Districts 1 and 2. Supper will precede the meeting and each lodge will furnish a number for the program. Outgoing noble grands will be honored at the Kittery meeting. District deputy president Nellie Wallace and staff will install olive lodge officers October 1. Refreshment committee includes Ione Foss Reginald Hatch and Evelyn Court. A food sale will be hosted Friday at Washington park starting 10 a.m. rain date Mousam Electric on Main Street. Committee members include Mildred Redion Ione Foss and Helen Welch with other lodge members assisting. Members voted to send Junior past president financial secretary and recording secretary to the Rebekah Assembly in Augusta in October. A section of officers will be.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olive Rebekah Lodge
Ioof Hall
Mildred Redson
Forest Rebekah Lodge
West Buxton
United Nations
York Lodge
Kittery
Nellie Wallace
Biddeford
Olive Lodge
Ione Foss
Reginald Hatch
Evelyn Court
Washington Park
Mousam
Census shows 40.5 million married couples in 1960
The 1960 Census counted 40.5 million married couples nationwide, reflecting household structure and family size patterns of the era.
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A Geiss Butter & Egg Stores
Main Street
Columbia Gem
Frankfurts
Nissen
Kennedy
Kennedy & CO
Acton Fair
Edmund Cashen Dial
Leroy Taylor
John Dresser
H. Willis Day
Richard Lyon
William Marsh
George Kimball
John Michael Durin
West Hartford
Conn
Mary Durgin
Napoleon Hamel
Haverhill
Mass
Ronald Robertson
Summer Street
Bernard Collins
South Hamilton
Storer Street
Gayle Fletcher Street
Duval
Pete Aldrick
William Krause
Littleton
Roger Krause
Peter
Tommy
Ladies Aid
Kennebunk Baptist Church
Marion Cousens
Harriet Freeman
Madge Jackson
Thelma Hanscom
Vinnie Hoffman
Kennebunk Rotary Club
George W. Hopkins
Torber K. Andersen
Andersen
Maine Truck Owners Association
Sais Perfumer
S & H Green
Seltzer
Hepatica
Micrin
Upjohn
Unicap
Ize
Squibb Theragian
McKesson
Andrew
Can McKesson
Revlon Silicare
Dandruff
West
O'Dell Men’s
Schick
Nescurl
Dennison
Tussy
Triple S & H
Boric
Harriet Hubbard Ayer
Ayer
Carroll
Vicki Witham
Carl Salvato
Mary Holden
Earl Wiltham
Elsie Bouchard
Margaret Bouchard Kennebunk
Edward Michaud
Auburn
Olive Rebekahs
First National Bank OF
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Heath Street
Canada
Zahares
IGA Foodliner
Coats
Adam
Stax
Odds and
Odds and Ends
Imudas
New England
Auto and Truck
Bea Tory ST Ste Pate
Portland
Exch
Biddeford CS. A
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