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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1961
Page
3
Directory of churches in Saco and surrounding towns with pastor names and Sunday Mass times. Includes St Joseph St Andre St Mary SACO Notre Dame de Lourdes Most Holy Trinity Kennebunk Kennebunkport Old Orchard Beach Wells Ogunquit Conservative Baptist Second Parish Unitarian First Parish Congregational Church and other denominations with service times and locations.
A church notices list for Episcopal congregations across Saco Portland Road Old Orchard Beach and East Waterboro detailing priests in charge Rev Mark M McCullough Rev T S Knox and Rev Harold McElwain. Services include Holy Communion at 8 9 11 am along with morning prayer sermons and nursery or children classes in parish halls.
Sunday activities listed for multiple Biddeford congregations. Key pastors include Rev Sam J Kalamaras at St Demetrios Greek Orthodox on Adams Street, Rev Delmar Lee Advent Christian at Hiard Chapel streets, Rev Edmund W Beal First Universalist at City Square, Rev BP Lewis Cutler Second Congregational White Church, Rev James Douglass Riddle Foss Street Methodist and South Biddeford Methodist on Pool Road, Rev Morley J Durest United Baptist on Jefferson Street. Services span 9:30 AM to 11 AM with variations and parish programs such as Sunday school and nursery.
Advent Christian church led by Rev Milford G Butterfield holds morning worship at 11 a m with church school. Village Baptist Church on Maine and Spring streets conducts church school for all ages at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 with nursery and children's church. First Congregational on North street and Arundel road with Rev Robert M Howes offers morning worship at 9 30. South Congregational on Temple street also led by Rev Howes has morning worship at 9 and 11 a m.
Methodist church led by Rev Norman J Langmaid offers Sunday services at 9 30 a m and church school at 10 30 a m directed by Mrs Stanley Stearns superintendent Advent Christian church headed by Rev Lioys Osborne holds morning worship at 11 am and Sunday school at 2 noon Lyman Baptist Church with Pastor Robert I Vance conducts Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m
Methodist church on Washington avenue led by Rev John T Stahl holds Sunday school at 9 45 a m and worship at 11 a m First Baptist on Ocean avenue with Rev G Stephen Johnston offers Sunday school at 1 30 p m and worship at 2 30 p m Advent Christian on Old Orchard Beach Road with Pastor Home Thurlow offers Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 10 a m Faith Tabernacle Pentecostal at Atlantic avenue and Third street led by Rev Russell K Pier conducts Sunday school 9 45 a m Junior church 11 30 a m morning worship 11 00 a m Salvation Army at Union avenue under Capt Robert Reid lists 9 45 Sunday school 11 00, Holiness meeting at 3, street open air service.
Unitarian church First Congregational parish led by Rev. Carl Bierman holds morning worship and Sunday school at 10:45 a.m. Christchurch with Rev. Frederic Holmberg and Robert B. Culmer offers services at 9:30 and 11 a.m. Kenneunk Baptist Church on Main Street, Rev. Chester M. Staples, Bible school at 9:45 a.m. and morning service at 11 a.m. Christian Science Society at 25 Summer Street offers Sunday school at 11 a.m. and morning service at 11 a.m. West Kennebunk Methodist Church with Rev. John H. Jordan has 9:00 a.m. worship, with soloist Miss Mary Vigne and organist Miss Elizabeth Hersey.
The First and Second Congregational churches of Wells and several nearby congregations announce union worship and Sunday school at 10 30 a m at the First church near Mile road to Wells Beach. Other churches list Sunday school times from 1 to 2 p m and worship services from 2 to 3 p m or 11 a m.
Ogunquit Baptist Church on Shore Road announces morning worship at 11 a.m. and evening worship at 7:39 p.m. led by Rev. Paul S. Hazlett.
Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape announces Rev. Henry O Megert as minister. Church school begins at 9 30 a m with morning worship at 10 45 a m.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds services at Advent Church on Cleveland Street in Saco. Elder J Maurice Dupuis is superintendent with Elder William W Howard and Elder Roger V Marden as assistants. Priesthood meeting is at 9 a.m. and Sunday school at 10 a.m.
The Kennebunk High and Junior High menu lists daily lunch options for March 27 through 31. Monday features orange juice Amer ican chop suey buttered wax beans roll ice cream milk. Tuesday offers frankfur t and roll mustard relish baked potato diced carrots fruit jello whipped cream milk. Wednesday presents baked kidney beans and catsup cole slaw bakery crown bread apple sauce milk. Thursday serves turkey with gravy smashed potato buttered peas cranberry sauce Parker House roll apple milk.
A reflective piece on prayer that lifts ordinary moments into meaning. It cites sermons and stories about forgiveness, wells, rulers, and Peter Marshall, concluding that prayer is more than ritual. It is the contagion of health, the pulse of life guiding belief and doubt alike.
In Nablus Jordan a Samaritan population revival grows from about 160 to 345 as persecution ends and outsiders convert to the sect. High Priest Amram Isaac shows a rebuilt temple and school, with the Abisha Scroll and a revised Bible honoring Mount Garizim as holy.
Forty one Rotary members at Kennebunk Inn heard Lowell Inniss of Saco discuss American glass development. T. O. Kingsbury announced three new playground committee members Joseph Ruest Al Packard and Warren Fisher. Inniss noted his Yale degree Shady Side School headmaster past and Carnegie Museum honorary curator status and his books on early American glass.
Friday meal offers tuna fish casserole with tossed green salad hot cross bun and fruit cup. Milk provided.
Monday Hamburg patty mashed potatoes green beans bread pudding with raisins milk. Tuesday Italian sandwich tomato soup jello milk. Wednesday Orange juice American chop suey roll and butter raisins ice cream milk. Thursday Choice of baked kidney or pea beans frankfurter roll pineapple and cheese salad. Friday Fish sticks mashed potatoes peas carrots bread and butter date bars milk.
Monday features baked spiced ham with mashed potatoes spinach bread and butter pudding and milk. Tuesday offers chicken noodle soup peanut butter sandwich carrot sticks cookies and milk. Wednesday serves American chop suey green salad hot roll butter fresh fruit and milk. Thursday includes turkey and gravy mashed potatoes peas bread and butter cranberry sauce surprise and milk. Friday presents clam chowder wedge of cheese bread and pickles ice cream and milk.
Attending a bridge party in Kennebunkport were many ladies and a visiting Midshipman Donald Fiske from Maine Maritime Academy. The Fire department schedules the Four Company supper on April 6 and the Atlantic Firemen’s association holds its Sunday event on April 9. Other items note cookie sales by Brownie Troop 38, a home move near the Richards Nunan house, plans for Cecile de Banke’s England trip, and various church meetings and officer elections in April.
Kennebunk Band Boosters approve music folders and 10 stands for Park Street band and add hats for ma jorettes, brass mats, capes and caps for the Park Street band which now has 88 members. They plan a May festival at Sanford with junior high and high school bands and Glee club, parade Saturday, and a Saturday night concert. An April 12 uniform trouser exchange at Kennebunk High School will ease costs as parents donate old white trousers for Park Street and Junior High bands. The spring concert is scheduled for May 27 at the high school auditorium.
Park Street School showcased its spring program at Kennebunk High School gym on Friday evening. Fifth and sixth graders performed tumbling and pyramid acts while the sixth grade Glee Club and Park Street Band, totaling 88 members, entertained under Leo Martin, Charles Wormwood, Miss Eunice Fitton, and Alexander Economos with Mrs. George Whittier on piano. The Major MetteS debuted, and announcer Freak MacDonald provided the introductions.
Mrs. Fred Merrill is back at Webber hospital with an arm infection. Mrs. Helen Thompson returns to Dover after visiting Mr and Mrs Arthur Clough. Melville Campbell remains a patient at Webber. Cub Scout troops and leaders Mrs Arthur Hendricks and Mrs Turner Brown hosted a bowling party in Biddeford. A Silver tea and silent auction at Olympian club hall on April 19 will benefit the Olympian club with Mrs Turner Brown in charge. An all day sewing meeting was held by the Ladies Society of the First Congregational church as renovations underway for Easter. New carpet, plaster, and interior painting planned. chairs readied for covering. Attendees included Mrs Shirley Walker, Mrs Dorothy Leach, Mrs Ann Stuart, Mrs Elizabeth Andrews, Mrs Florence Inniss, Miss Mildred Clough, Mrs Amy Maddix, Mrs Mary Philbrick. Fred Walker assisted throughout, sharing birthday celebrations with Mrs Maddix. The next Ladies Society meeting is Monday evening with Mrs Edna Crown and Mrs Elizabeth Andrews on refreshment duty. Mrs Charles Cluff is a patient.
The TAC met at Mrs. Henry Hanscom's home and decided to dine at Boone's restaurant in Portland on April 17. A social evening of games with prizes followed supper. Present were Mrs. Nason Stevens Severance Cousens and Hanscom. The American Legion auxiliary Webber Lefebvre unit will meet Monday at Mrs. Martel's home for new member initiations.
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