Miniwanca OES Marks 40th Anniversary at Old Orchard Beach
The Miniwanca chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star observed the 40th anniversary of the pier with a meeting in Old Orchard Beach. Worthy Matron Kay Mewer and Worthy Patron Stanley Leonard led a program featuring charter members, readings, songs, and a Mitch Miller appearance. Guests included grand matron Mrs Juanita Sions and other Chapter members from York and Portland, with invitations noted for future events and a 30 day charter drapery in memory of Past Grand Matron Mrs Louella M Pendleton.
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Orthy
Kay H.ver
Stanley Leonard
Miniwanca
Old Orchard Beach
Juanitasions
Fadette
York
Anne Rsman
Deering
Betty Jean Braley
Alice O. Igren
Longfellow
Portland
Agneswett
Sarah Orne Jewett Pier
South Berwick
Florence Parge
Pine Cone
Gov- 1
District No. 2
Florida
Ker Linscott
Piscataqua
Iona
Angeline
North Winda
Stella
Worcester
Friendship
Mass
Fereneze
Scotland
Lah
Cumberland
Marc Douglass
Clover
San
Biddeford
Minerva Chap- Madison
Grand Family
Sarah Orne Jewett
Saco
Pleasant River
St Buxton
Long
Esther
Leora Bass
Louella M. Pendleton
Grand Chapter
Maine
City Hall
Rei
Chestnut Street Methodist Church
Donald Nowell
Orchard Lodge
Masonic Lodge
Gertrude Leonard
Helen Cummings
Kay Mewer
Mitch Miller
John Strickland
Mary Robbins
Mainestein
Lillian Nowell
Gwendolyn
Raymond Halle
Doris
George Noel
Harriet
George Harbig
Catherine Young
Vera
Robert Stoddard
Effie
Ray Littlefield
Doris Ellingwood
Mary Mewer
Etta Morris
Adelaide Welch
Jennie Rallis
Ethel Wight
Lillian Newell
Shirley Duross
County Baptists Annual Session Held In Ogunquit
The York County Baptist association held its annual meeting in Ogunquit hosted by Ogunquit Baptist Church. Morning activities included a woman’s missionary meeting led by Mrs. Mark Libby. Afternoon speakers were Rev. Elmer Bentley Rev. Eugene Cram and Rev. Leon Emmert. evening guest Rev. J Walter Fillem spoke. services led by Ogunquit youth and Cape Neddick pastor Rev. Richard Parker.
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York County Baptist Association
Ogunquit
Mark Libby
Elmer Bentley
Baptist Convention
Maine
Eugene Cram
Maine Baptist Convention
Leon Emmert
Congo
Friendship Circle
Richard Parker
Cape Neddick
Mass
Paul S. Hazlett
Fireside Club Banquet Date Set at May 22
The Fireside club of School Street Methodist church in Saco set May 22 for its annual banquet at Valle's steak house Scarborough. Members will meet at 6 30 p m at the church to depart. A brief business session will follow.
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School Street Methodist
Saco
Arthur Gannon
Ralph Parslow
Paul Cobb
Ferry Road
Barbara Allen
Fred Bell
Knights of Columbus and Rebekah Lodge Meet in Beach
A meeting of Rev James J Mullen Council Knights of Columbus auxiliary will be held at St OE parish hall Wednesday. Old Orchard Beach Rebekah lodge will meet Wednesday evening at Odd Fellows hall. Regular business and conferring of degrees.
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James J. Mullen
Knights of Columbus Auxiliary
Stoe Parish Hall
Wednes Day
Old Orchard Beach
Rebekah ‘Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Firemen's party whist results and local notices Cape Porpoise
Nine tables of whist were played at the Firemen's card party with high scorers Mrs Mary Huff and Mrs Ardelle Nunan. Second high went to Justin Landry and Herbert Estey. Low scorers were Mrs Irene Whitcher and Paul Griffin. Awards were given to Fred Crowell and Austin Buchanan. Family Week announced for May 7 to 14 with events at church and hall including a Brotherhood service and basket supper. Webber hospital native Mrs Lina Nunan is patient. Lobster salad supper at Firemen's hall on May 13. Several locals make trips or return home from travels and illnesses noted.
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Mary Huff
Ardelle Nunan
Justin Landry
Herbert Estey
Irene Whitcher
Paul Griffin
Fred Crowell
Austin Buchanan
Henry Megert
Lyman Matthews
Lina Nunan
Webber Hospital
Biddeford
Eleanor Blair
Wellesley
Mass
Richard Davis
Little Rock
Ark
Florida
Charles Wentworth
Davises
Rufus Lord
Lawrence
Memie Perkins
Philip B. Eaton
Chester F. Eaton
Naval Training Center
Great Lakes
Roland Webber Elected Head of Cemetery Group
Roland Webber was elected President of the Pine Grove cemetery in West Kennebunk at the annual meeting. Officers include Plummer Adjutant as vice president, Rita Pitman as clerk and treasurer, George Authier and Myra Towne as auditors, and Roland Webber as caretaker. Directors named include George Authier, Roscoe Clark, Harry Chapman, Harland Webber, and others. fence repair and tree replacement were approved, with survey for improvements assigned to the Adjutant and Ruthier j and Webber.
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Roland Webber
Pine Grove
West Kennebunk
Plummer Adjutant
Rita Pitman
George Authier
Myra Towne
Plummer
Roscoe Clark
Harry Chapman
Harland Webber
George Swett
Irene Chapman
Jessie Hanson
Lillian Hicks
Ethel Littlefield
Zella Tibbetts
Myr Towne
Harry Knight II
Ruthier J and
Webber
District Report Presented To Nee Nah Council
Nee Nah Council met at the Legion Hall Old Orchard Beach with Pocahontas Evelyn Presley presiding. Frances Johnson reported on the North Berwick meeting. An invitation from Durumquin council New Gloucester was received for Guard of the Forest and Guard of the Night on May 8. Priscilla Bibber was appointed deputy Great Pocahontas to fill Rose Fournier’s term. Shirley Doe became first scout and Mary LeBranche Guard of the Forest. LaBranche won the mystery prize. Evelyn Lunder won a special prize. Next meeting set for May 15.
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Rose Fournier
Shirley Doe
Fourniier
Mary LeBranche
LaBranche
Evelyn Lunder
Kennebunk notices mix visitors and college plans
Kennebunk residents share news of visitors and family ties. Mrs Edmund Cashen expects her daughter Mrs John Evans Sally Dixon to arrive Friday for a visit with her father Roland Dixon and sister Mrs Roger Noble, while Mrs Evans tours with Bell Telephone in Philadelphia on leave. Martha Dymkoski, daughter of Mr and Mrs Sidney Dymkoski, graduates Kennebunk High School in June and will enter College of New Rochelle in the fall. Terrence Pangburn, USN hospital corpsman, serves with the Third Marine Aircraft Wing at El Toro MCAS Santa Ana California. The Women’s Alliance of Kennebunk Unitarian church plans a rummage sale at the church vestry Wednesday at 11.
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John Evans
Sally Dixon
Kennebunk
Roland Dixon
Roger Noble
George Gordon
Evans
Bell Telephone Company
Philadelphia
Martha Dymkoski
Sidney Dymkoski
Colonial Drive
Kennebunk High School
College of New Rochelle
N. Y
Merion Rogers
Gorham
N. H
Ronald Robertson
Robertson
Donna and
Calvin Ashford
Haverhill
Mass
Women's Alliance
Kennebunk Unitarian Church
Harold Bourne
Jesse Wallace
Elizabeth Sheridan
Arthur Chase
George Lord
Charles Bowdoin
Theodore C
Mrs. Donald Kellett Showered By Proxy
A stork shower by proxy honors Mrs. Donald Kellett of Midway Island Virginia at her sister’s Kennebunk home. Co hostesses Fernald White and others received unwrapped gifts later wrapped for the guest. Attendees include Mrs. Shields and Mrs. White among several listed. Some guests sent gifts but could not attend.
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Donald Kellet
Jacqueline Stevens
Midway Island
David Shields
Storer Street
Kennebunk
Fernald White
Andrew Harvey
William Mercier
Albert Cowgill
James Nadeau
Marshall Weeman, Jr
Ethelyn Foss
Rose Emmons
Patti Bowley
Barbara Schoff
Karen Curtis
White
Shields
William Higgins
Frederick O’blenns
Earl Harvey
Maud Ward
Museum receives five valuable oil paintings from estate
The Brick Store Museum in Kennebunk earns five oil paintings from Mrs. Arthur Variell's estate. The highlight is Albert Sisley's Matinee d'Octobre, a tranquil river landscape in blue and gray. Also featured is Daubigny's idyllic landscape with exquisite finish and fidelity to nature. The Metropolitan Museum holds ten similar landscape works.
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Kennebunk
Arthur Variell
Albert Sisley
Sisley
Claude Monet
Corot
Monet
Museum
Charles- Francois Daubigny
Daubigny
Fontainebleau-Barbizon
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Bequeathed paintings on display at Brick Store museum
Five paintings bequeathed by Lady Variell are now on display in the Lord gallery of The Brick Store museum. The collection includes an 1895 oil painting by Henry Moret of a moonlit sailboat scene and two unidentified portraits, a lady and a gentleman, with the others likely from the late 18th or 19th century.
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Henry Moret
Lady Variell
Lord
Brick Store
Wells Elmbrook Grange Meeting And Local Auditions West Maine
A Wells area notice announces Elmbrook Grange meeting Thursday at 8 p m at the Highpine firemen s hall Sanford road Wells. Wells school band junior high Glee club and high school Glee club to audition at the Western Maine Audition Festival in Sanford Friday and Saturday with a massed band concert Saturday evening. Arthur H Perkins son of Mr and Mrs Bert C Perkins Wells is serving aboard USS Providence home port Long Beach after a six month Western Pacific cruise visiting Japan Hong Kong the Philippines and Okinawa.
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Elmbrook Grange
Highpine Firemen’s
Sanford Road
Wells
Wells Junior High School
Wells High School
Bert C. Perkins
Providence
Long Beach
Calif
Seventh Fleet
Pacific
Japan
Hong Kong
Philippines
Okinawa
Hope Circle to Host Silver Tea at Beach Church
Hope Circle sponsors a Silver Tea at Washington Avenue Methodist Church in Old Orchard Beach on Wednesday at 2:30 PM. Tea table chairs include Priscilla Skilling and Margaret Milliken, with Mary Mewer and Marcia Stahl as pourers and Anna Anderson at the guest book. Public invited.
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Hope Circle
Beach Church
Circle
Washington Avenue Methodist Church
Old‘ Ora Beach
Priscilla Skilling
Margaret Milliken
Mary Mewer
Marcia Stahl
Anna
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Second Congregational Church
Star Club
Asa Douglas
Pine Point
Methodist Church
Main Street
Saco Tel
S. Finch Distilling CO
Aladdin
County Baptists
Fireside Club
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Cape Porpoise
Florence Nunan
Nee Nah Council
Edmund Cashen
Donald Kellett
Wells Albeo & Lapierre Dial
Midway
Journal
New York
Prince George
Manhattan
East 28Th St
Vances
Chevrolet
Corvair
Brookwood
Corvair Monza Club
Fisher
Chevy
Bel Air
ED & Frank Chevrolet, Inc
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