Residents and visitors gather at Kennebunks events
Mrs Edmund Cashen hosts guests including Mr and Mrs William Lupien and daughters Janice and Cathy from New London and Miss Mildred Lupien of Cambridge while Miss Sandra Dickson, Rossroad, is a patient at Children’s Hospital Ton. Edward Michaud and daughters from Presque Isle visit Mrs Paul Dumont Jr Wells. TAC club holds annual Dragon Seed celebration in Kittery with several attendees. Mrs Floming returns home after a Fort Wayne vacation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agnes Lupien
Harry Manseau
I Iner Street
William Lupien
Janice
Cathy
New London
Julie Ann
Suzanne
Presque Isle
Biddeford
Paul Dumont, Jr
Wells
Everett Cluf
Winter Street
Frank Levi
Lynn
Mass
TAC Club
Dragon Seed Kittery
Old Orchard Beach Community Notices
The Women's Society of Christian Service of the Methodist church will meet at 2 pm Thursday at Mrs Elizabeth Garland's home Imperial The Tuesday dessert Bridge club met yesterday at Mrs Herschel Bates Lawn Avenue Miss Helen Fitzgibbons had high score Abbott-Verville AMVETS auxiliary meets Thursday at 8 pm at the Post Home Walnut Street Old Orchard Beach Women’s Civic group meets Thursday 7 30 pm at the High School cafeteria Jameson School hosts Old Orchard Beach Art Association meeting at 7 30 pm William Dow of South Portland will teach and members should bring materials Lions Club meets at the club house Thursday evening
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Women’s Society of Chrisitian
Methodist Church
Elizabeth Garland
Imperial
Herschel Bates
Lawn Avenue
Helen Fitzgibbons
Abbott-Verville Amvets
Post
Walnut
Old Orchard Beach
Ind and St Louis Woman's Plane Trip Noted
A brief item records a woman from Indiana and St. Louis, Missouri making a trip by plane, with travel details noted in terse terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ind
St. Louis, Mo
Kiwanis Club At Beach Elects Monier President
Old Orchard Beach Kiwanis Club elected Alphonse Monier as president at the American Legion hall. Robert Corliss and Adelbert M. Jakeman Jr. were named vice presidents, Donald Shorey treasurer, with secretary to be appointed later. Officers to be installed December 26 amid a Sanford interclub gathering. Samuel Michaels, Lewiston industrial agent, spoke on industrial development and the Raytheon story.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alphonse Monier
Old Orchard Beach
Kiwanis Club
American Legion Hall
Ool Street
Robert Corliss
Adelbert M. Jakeman, Jr
Donald Shorey
Sanford
Veterans Day Talent Contest Auditions Open In Wells
Auditions for the annual Veterans Day Talent Contest are Friday November 3 at 7 pm in the Wells American Legion hall Eldredge road no age limit and any amateur act accepted prizes range 10 to 50 dollars The show is November 11 at 8 pm in the Ogunquit firemen's hall sponsored by Elbridge and Leroy Hanson American Legion post Also Ocean Lodge AF and AM meets for Master Mason degree at 7 30 pm at Highpine Masonic hall Wells 50 year veterans medals will be presented Old Timers night and a baked bean supper at 6 30 pm
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wells American Legion Hall
Eldredge Road
Ogunquit
Ocean Lodge
Highpine Masonic Hall
Sanford Road
Wells
Ancient treasures weighed copper slabs as ox hide money
In the eastern Mediterranean between 1600 and 1000 B C workers used bronze or copper slabs weighing about 60 pounds, shaped like an ox hide, as currency. These talents represented the value of an ox and functioned as money in trade and commerce of the era.
Kennebunk Girl Engaged To Wed Air Force Man
Mr and Mrs Edward Arsenault announce the engagement of their daughter Rowena Arsenault to S Sgt Joseph G Burge son of Mr and Mrs Arthur Burge both in Chelsea Mass The couple plan a fall wedding Rowena is a US Women's Air Force member stationed at Otis Air Force Base Cape Cod Mass while Joseph is also stationed at Otis after graduating Chelsea High School and serving in the US Air Force
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elm Street
Biddeford
Wayne Wilson
West Kennebunk Methodist Church
Alfred Ives
David Grey
Pearl Crown
Ethel Crown
Frank Wilson
Elm Croft Farm
West Kennebunk
Edward Arsenault
Park Street
Kennebunk
Rowena Arsenault
Joseph G. Burge
Arthur Burge
Chelsea
Mass
Arsenault
Kennbunk High School
Women’s Air Force
Otis Air Force Base
Cape Cod
Burge
Chelsea ‘Mass
U.S. Air Force
Nina Dolores Bedard
Leroy Kalex
Hazel Street
Norman Bedard
Smithwheel Road
Old Orchard Beach
Miss Bedard
Biddeford High School
Roland
Saco
Allied Hampshire Footwear Corp
Mosquito Swarm Unmoved by Pungent Cigars
A pungent cigar may repel a stray mosquito but it will not deter a swarm. The text notes that large groups of mosquitoes ignore the odor and persist in their activity.
Yuletide Cards Talk At Maine Arts Group
Miss Margaret Kilburn will discuss handmade Christmas cards at the Maine Arts and Crafts meeting on Thursday at 7:45 pm in the Unitarian church Kennebunk. She will demonstrate linoleum block printing silk screen and etching. A Christmas sales plan includes events at Olympian club Kennebunkport on Nov 29 and Hamilton Memorial hall Beach Street Saco on Nov 30 to benefit the Women's Educational and Union scholarship fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Kilburn
Maine Arts and Crafts, Inc
Unitarian Church
Kennebunk
Olympian Club
Kennebunkport
Hamilton Memorial Hall
Beach Street
Saco
Women's Educational and
Oo Union
County Baptists Meet At Kennebunk
Over 300 delegates of the York County Baptist association attended the fall meeting at the Baptist church in Kennebunk. Dr. William L. Lane of Gordon Divinity School spoke to the laymen and, with Mrs. Donald Thompson of Millinocket, addressed the women. Dr. Lane spoke at a combined meeting on Great Affirmations of the Reformation. Other speakers included Rev. Eugene Cram and Rev. William Ruede. A panel on What Baptists Believe featured several pastors with Rev. John Pendleton as moderator. The day closed with an evening devotional led by Rev. Philip Gagne and benediction from Rev. Chester Staples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
York County Baptist Association
Baptist Church
Kennebunk
William L. Lane
Gordon Divinity School
Donald Thompson
Millinocket
Maine Baptist Woman's Missionary Society
Lane
York County Baptist Youth Fellowship
Eugene Cram
Western Maine
William Ruede
Missionary Cooperation
J. Wesley Stuart
South Berwick
George Urban
Kennebunkport
Robert Smith
Sanford
Hugh Crouch
Springvale
John Pendleton
John MacBeil
Philip Gagne
Limerick
Chester Staples
Homer Chappell
Exhibit Of Paintings To Mark Art Week
In observance of American Art Week from November 1 to 7, the Maine Arts and Crafts Inc will hold an exhibition of paintings by members at the Arts and Crafts store 105 Main Street Kennebunk. The store will be open daily from 2 to 4 30 p m except Sunday for public viewing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maine Arts and Crafts, Inc
Arts and Crafts, Inc
Arts and Crafts
Main Street
Kennebunk
Wells Scouts Fund Drive Nears Quota
Wells area Boy Scout fund drive chairwoman Mrs. Clarence Colby says final reports may push the drive past the $317 Wells quota. Solicitations chairwoman Mrs. Maxine Miller reports nearly all community areas covered with Rural sections possibly unfinished. Contributions may be dropped off at Wells Town office Thursday and Friday from 8 30 a m to 4 30 p m. drive stands about $75 short with solicitors yet to turn in funds. Troops 353 and 300 in Wells will benefit from Pine Tree Council BSA campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Colby
Wells
Maxine Miller
Pine Tree Council
BSA
Kennebunk Fire Society to Host 148th Annual Meeting
The Kennebunk Fire Society holds its 148th annual meeting at the Unitarian Church on Tuesday November 14 with a 6 30 pm turkey supper. Maurice Day of Damariscotta will speak on his career as artist wood carver painter and nature photographer. Day worked at Disney MGM studios and contributed to Bambi research and Ford Times. Dean Fales will be historian. Officers include Dr. Leon Bradley president John Seekins Jr clerk Lendall Smith and Lewis Burr treasurer. The society is among Maine’s oldest and now meets annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kennebunk Fire Society
Unitarian Church
Kennebunk
Evening Alliance
Maurice
Jake) Day
Damariscotta
Disney
MGM
Maine
Katahdin
The
School of the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Atlantic Monthly
Art Commission
Ford Times Magaine
Baxter State Park
Jake Day
Jake’s
Wilds
William C. Douglass
U. S. Supreme Court
Jake
Douglass
Field and Stream Magazine
Ford Times
Dean Fales
Leon Bradley
John S. Seekins, Jr
Lendall Smith
Lewis H. Burr
Ogunquit Grange to Observe Silver Certificate Night
Ogunquit ALBEO G LaPierre Silver Certificate Night set for Friday November 3 at 8 p m.. meeting held at Ogunquit Grange hall School street. A pot luck supper at 6 30 precedes the business meeting. members asked to bring a hot dish or salad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogunquit Grange
Grange Hall
School Street
York Girl Joins Wellesley College Choir Debut Planned
Miss Marianne Magocsi of York becomes a new member of the Wellesley College choir which opens its 1961 62 season with a Fall Vesper concert. The program features Jephte excerpt in Latin and works by Brahms DesPrez Mozart Schubert Schuetz and Sowerby under director William A Herrmann. The choir of 150 will later perform with Williams and Hamilton glee clubs and at Christmas vesper services while providing campus chapel music. Miss Magocsi a freshman and York High School graduate is the daughter of Dr and Mrs Alexander W Magocsi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianne Magoesi
York
Wellesley College
Carissimi
Brahms
DesPrez
Mozart
Schubert
Schuetz
Sowerby
William A. Herrmann
Wellesley
Williams
Hamilton
College
Mass
Boston
Magocsi
Alexander W. Magocsi
York High School
Remember to open a window when idling in a car
State Police stress never leaving a car with the engine running. Carbon monoxide poisoning has caused several deaths when motorists forget this rule.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edmund Cashen Dial
Ole Orchard Beach
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Coats
Butler
Gladys Wilcox
Miss Rachel Dubois
Ruth Cheney
Florence Grace
Beach
Monier
Wells Albeo G
Lapierre
Elbridge and
Leroy Hanson American Legion Post
Air Force
County Baptists
Biddeford-Saco
Society
Galaxy
Tobe
Cotea
Rose
Gray
Albeo G. Lapierre
Wellesley Choir
Jack & Larry’s Jewelry
Alfred and
Main Streets
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