Kennebunk Social Roundup Highlights Local Travel Visitors
Local residents report three week Virginia trips and Florida vacations. Kennebunk figures Nikki Eveleth’s election as senior class president at Waynflete. Dover officials prepare York County Law Enforcement meeting with Atty Casey Maher as speaker. Episcopal Diocesan convention attendees from Kennebunk share notes in Portland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Cummings
Oak Bluff Road
Virginia
Paul Bedard
Park Street
Winter Haven
Cypress Gardens
Fla
Edward J. Winston
South Portland
Inlaw
Edward C. Winston
FE. D. McKeon
Colonial Drive
Hollywood
Pennsylvania
John Staples
Canaan
Elwyn Smilie
Summer Street
Walter Hall
Berwick
Ella Smilie
Sanford
John Fleming
John Pond
John Grimes
Dover
N. H
Alva Fleming
Kennebunk
Wayne Wyman
Peter
Webber Hospital
Casey Maher
York County Law Enforcement Association
Barney Beg Grange
North Berwick
The
Grange
Maynard Abbott
Charles Davis
Donald Jackson
Howard Mann
St. Luke Cathedral
Portland
Jackson
Frances Julia
Charles Hatch
Kennebunk PTA Elects Officers At Year End Meeting
The Kennebunk PTA will hold its final meeting of the year on Thursday at 8 p m at Cousens School Day Street. President Atty Charles W Smith will preside during the annual officer election. Miss Frances Landry principal and Mrs Evelyn Calder and Mrs Mary Berson present the program The 5 year old program What your child's pre primary instruction and guidance. Refreshments will be served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk P. T
Cousens School
Day Street
Charles W. Smith
Frances Landry
Evelyn Calder
Mary Berson
Pre School Registrations Set At Wells
Wells Ogunquit and North Berwick elementary schools announce spring pre primary registrations for eligible children born on or before October 15, 1955. Parents must enroll with the pre primary teacher and present birth certificates plus vaccination and health information. Registration ends Friday with optional special times arranged. summer registrations go through the Wells superintendent’s office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells
Ogunquit
North Berwick
Superintendent of Schools
Margaret Belleau
Ogunquit Village
Evelyn Maguire
Eleanor Brown
Arundel Council and Church Women Elect Officers
A May Fellowship Day at Kennebunk Baptist church drew many area women. Mrs. Irving Perkins of Cape Porpoise presided as Arundel Council president, with Mrs. Frederick C. Perkins Jr. named president-elect. Other officers include Mrs. Robert Spofford as vice president and Mrs. Henry Megert as secretary treasurer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk Baptist Church
Irving Perkins
Cape Porpoise
Arundel
Homer Chappell
William Silliker
Kennebunk
George Whittier
E. A. Huff
Elmont S. Tyndale
Kennebunkport
Cape Porvis
Prize winners at Old Orchard Beach card party by AMVETS auxiliary
Old Orchard Beach event lists winners from a Sunday card party at the Pest Home on Walnut Street. Mary Emery won ladies high while Lillian Sloan took low. Jerry Jacques was men's high and also a two prize recipient. Virginia Olofson earned Queen of Hearts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abbott-Verville Amvets
Pest
Wal‘nut Street
Mary Emery
Low
Lillian Sloan
Jerry Jacques
John Brooks
Queen of Hearts
Virginia Olofson
Miniwanca
Order of Eastern Star
Washington Avenue
Star Club
Kay Mewer
Frances MacGregor
Beatrice Davis
St. Johnsbury
Carl Gilbert
Gordon Allgrove
Eden Lane
Old Orchard Beach Art Association
Troop 76 Hosts Child Care Themed Party for Area Children
Girl Scout Troop 76 held a party at the Webhannet clubhouse Kenne bunk for pre school children. Thirty Scouts attended with guests including 12 mothers. Activities included Maypole dancing musical chairs and nursery games with ice cream and punch served. The event supports the Childcare proficiency badge and is among ten related projects. The Court of Awards is set for June 1 at the troop meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Girl Scout Troop 76
Webhannet
Kennebunk
Wells Spring Kennel Show Planned at Sanford Park
York County Kennel Club outlined plans for the next sanctioned match at a May meeting held at Brown's Welcome House Wells. The June 26 event will be held at Goodall Park in Sanford with Ernest Crowley Kennebunk as tickets and trophies chair and Robert Benson Sanford as judge. President Harry Tomlinson Kennebunk will supervise the show. sixteen members attended and a dinner preceded the session. The next meeting is scheduled for June 12 at Welcome House Wells.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York County Kennel Club
Brown's Welcome House
Wells
Goodall Park
Sanford
Jessie Hill
Kennebunk
Ernest Crowley
Robert Benson
Charles Abbott
Harry Tomlinson
Kernel Club
Tomlinson
Welcome House
Community Notices and Local Club Events in Cape Porpoise
Cape Porpoise updates include Florence Nunan and Alma Kittredge among attendees at the Olympic club officers luncheon led by Mrs. Gunn. Obituaries notice Rev. and Mrs. Walter A. Smith. Postmasters from Maine, including Florence Nunan, toured Boston Post Office Dept. Regional Office and the new Mail-Flo system. Local clubs plan events from May 16 card party to May 20 food sale, with gatherings at Pradbury's store, Firemen's hall, and Langsford road homes. Open House at Sunday School showcased year’s work and junior choir performance led by Cherlene Elliot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olympic Club
Gunn
Alma Kittredge
Hazel Davis
Ruth Thurston
Ruth Pinkham
June Perkins
Dollie Merrill
Louise Severance
Walter A. Smith
St. Petersburg
Fla
Cape Porpoise
Methodist Church
Ralph Curtis
Hazlett
Marblehead
Mass
Curtis
Langsford Road
Florence Nunen
Postimaster
Maine
Boston
Post Office Dept
South Postal Annex
Raymond Nunan
Florence Smith
Bernard Bunnell
Dorothy Ridlon
al Lynne
Ellen Buchanan
Ethel Wescott
Auxiliary of the
American Legion
Doris MacKennan
Final Meeting of Beach Past Grands Assoc at Ocean Park
The Past Noble Grands association of Old Orchard Rebekah Lodge met at Muriel Gooch's home in Ocean Park with President Doris Ellingwood presiding. Daughters in law of Avis Briggs and Avonell Pettengill were initiated. Rebekah pins were presented. Treasurer Cora Jones was asked to buy four more pins. Refreshments followed and the group voted to meet at Ethel Whitten’s camp on September 12 for a pot luck. No summer meeting. this was last of the season.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noble Grands Association
Old Orchard Rebekah Lodge
Muriel Gooch
Nautilus
Colby Avenue
Ocean Park
Doris Ellingwood
Noble
Avis Briggs
Avonell Pettengill
Rebekah
Cora Jones
Margaret Chamberlin
Eleanor Bradeen
Ethel Whitten
Hazel McLaughlin
Anna Anderson
Gertrude Wight
Marriage intentions at Saco clerk office
Marriage intentions on file list Kenneth R Rouillard of 182 Union Street Saco and Priscilla L St Onge of Ocean Park Road Saco. The note mentions Telegraph Hill in San Francisco named for semaphore signaling arriving ships to traders below.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saco City
Kenneth R . Rouillard
Union Street
Saco
Priscilla L. St. Onge
Ocean Park Road
San Francisco
Telegraph Hill
Officer Slate Nominated By Wells Legion Post
Nomination of officers occurred at the Eldredge and Leroy Hanson post American Legion meeting on Eldredge road Wells. The slate lists Harrington Tufts Adams Littlefield Yorke LaPierre Alpren OConnell Pimentel with adjutant still open. Next floor nominations May 23 at the next meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eldridge
Leroy Hanson
American Legion
Wells Legion
Eldredge Road
Albee G. LaPierre
John P. Harrington
Arthur H. Tufts
Millard W. Adams
Roby P. Littlefield
Harry H. Yorke
Alber G. LaPierre
Harry Alpren
William J.o'connell
George J. Pimentel
Local teen builds miniature map of Mountainside
Paul Martell, 15, placed Mountainside on the map with a three feet to the mile model. Over six weeks he created a detailed town in plaster on six boards, counting houses by bicycling through the four square miles, using a map and foliage for accuracy. He admires his father and may pursue real estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mountainside
N. J
Paul Martell
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edmund Cashen Dial
Kennehunk Pta
Kentucky
Ancient Age Dist. Co
Frankfort, Ky
Public Finance
Main Street
Atlantic
J. C. Penney Life Insurance
Old Orchard Beach
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Troop 76
Abraham Lincoln Women’s Relief Corps
Wells Grange Hall
Sanford Read
Mary Stacy
Dawn Hayes
Hilda Hamlyn
Marion Bridges
Priscilla Chapter
Order of the Eastern Star
Highpine Masonic Hall
Sanford Road
Dorothy Mavel
Donald S. Paine
Edwin L. Littlefield
Roger S. Bragdon
Burton E. Dodge
Charis FE. Dunklee
Ellis D. Dodge
Charles E. Dunklee
Roy A. Goodale
Constantine Battis
Thomas Chase
Betty Martin
Katherine Call
Kenneth Call
Debra Barrows
John Barrows
Elmer Bridges
Sheila Cameron
Daniel Chalox
Cheryl Cole
Allayne Coleman
David Danis
Marcus Darby
Susan Gorman
Patricia Go
Diane Ducharme
Wendy Ford
Nancy Hill
Roxanne Hilton
Caleb Kimball
Chris Mathews
Bonnie Mitchell
Richard Mooers
Lucy Rhodes
Gerrish Sargent
Ernestine Smith
Roscoe Smith
Sherry Stevens
Guy Woodward
Jacalyn Wildes
Larry Hilton
Linda Bates
Noreen Huff
Edith Colby
Donna Amerault
Melody Angers
Linda Bragdon
Philip Brackett
Rolyne LaBree
Ralph Laurence
Judy Merrill
Paul Owen
Sharon Perkins
Ward Quilter
David Smalley
Billy Strout
Gregory Tetherly
Barbara Towns
Katherine Tracy
Ronald Woodward
Michael Perry
Bruce Boisjoly
Dorothy Strout
Jane Ahern
Donald Brackett
Martha Bragdon
Christine Brooks
Susan Buckley
Dennis Byrnes
Beverly Campbell
Doreen Danis
Florence
Nnnan
Beach Past
Travel
Earth
Biddeford
New York
Washington
Philadelphia
Lway
Saco — Percy’s Pharmacy
Thacher
Kennebunk — Bowdoin Drug
Wells Legion Post
Robert, Bickford
Kittery
York County Council
Milton Vigne
Charles E. Perry
Bickford
Wells Post
William O'Connell
Clarence Kimball
Veteran's Monument
Charles Davenport
Theodore J. Handrinos
Maine Osteopathic Hospital
Keith Moody
Warren
Warren’s
Coach’s Day Camp Inc
Bill Pawlikowski
Thornton Academy
Alfred Street
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