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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1961
Page
3
Boulder Colorado auction by the Colorado Land Board opened with a bid of 150 dollars per acre. By bidding end the price soared to 1 125 dollars per acre for twenty acres of mountain land west of the city.
A compact survey lists diverse references from Berkshire Hills to Sunset Strip and Atlantic City. It highlights guides and handbooks including Bucks County Holiday Handbook of Wood and Antic Arts by Hugh Foster. The fragment also mentions Party of One by William Golding and Reading I've Liked by Clifton Fadiman.
The New Englander’s July issue highlights Saco Maine with plans for a 98,000 square foot plant hiring 300 at Saco Industrial Park, plus Saco-Lowell shops securing a 6.5 million defense contract. It notes Rovematic roving frame details, Maremont’s expansion, and Saco-Lowell’s plant network.
A sequence of social visits and family gatherings unfolds in Kennebunk and nearby towns. Residents host relatives from Haverhill and Medford while a wedding at St. Monica's church in Kennebunk brings Patricia Taute and Jere Gauthier together, with extended family traveling from Massachusetts and Connecticut for the ceremony.
Mrs. Joseph Latulip of Littleton New Hampshire visited Mrs Grace Allgrove in Old Orchard Beach Sunday. Latulip served as her nurse during Allgroves stay at Littleton hospital. Miss Nettie Camp and Ivan Ward of St. Johnsbury Vermont are spending the week here.
Patricia Anne Taute and Jere Wayne Gauthier wed at St. Monica church Kennebunk in a ceremony attended by family and friends. The bride, daughter of Howard and (Mrs.) Taute, wore an all lace gown with veil and carried feathered carnations. Attendants included maid of honor Carol Taute and bridesmaids in blue nylon dresses. The groom is the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Gauthier. Afterward a reception at Wonderbar Biddeford followed by a wedding trip to New York City Washington DC and Atlantic City. The bride is a Kennebunk High School graduate class of 1960 employed by Keuffel and Esser. the groom, a Kennebunk native, is in the U.S. Navy aboard USS Sea Robin.
More than 120 Old Orchard Beach children six and up enrolled yesterday at Ambassador Pool Ocean Park for Red Cross swimming lessons. Registration remains open for a few days for late registrants. Instructor Mrs. Howard Shaffer is aided by Sidney Griffith and Linda Zello. Water safety aides include Kathy Sheehan Margo Cote Rene Goupil and Judy Remillard with junior assistants David Morin Pamela Pendleton Susan Hunt and Carlene Maksut. Tests will place students into groups and certificates awarded after course completion. Adult and life saving classes are also offered for residents.
Seventeen Kennebunk families prepare to host fourteen New York City youths arriving by bus tomorrow around 3. Host families include returning pairs such as Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith and Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pickering with Hartley Leach and family. arrangements chaired by Mrs. Pickering. Coordinated by the Kennebunkport Health Council and South Congregational Church in cooperation with the Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund.
Francis Lamontagne and multiple Kennebunkport families greet summer visitors arriving by chartered bus from New York. Hosts in Cape Porpoise Arundel Wells and North Berwick welcome guests for two to four week stays. An IRS representative will assist the public at Biddeford’s 18 South Street office Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. with internal revenue issues.
The Women’s Society of Christian Service of the Washington Avenue Methodist Church in Old Orchard Beach will hold its annual summer sale featuring aprons smocks fancy articles white elephants and cooked food Friday July 21 from 2 to 5 p m at the church vestry or on the lawn if weather permits The hours were corrected from a prior error noting the sale runs 2 to 5 p m Meanwhile work on the Bear Brook sewage treatment project off Cumberland is mentioned in the same item.
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