Beach Couple Celebrates 25th Wedding Anniversary
Mr and Mrs Gordon G Smith of Maple Avenue Old Orchard Beach mark their 25th wedding anniversary with a family dinner at the Charter House Portland. They wed October 30 18 97 at Biddeford United Baptist Church. The couple received cards flowers and a silver gift and shared a wedding cake with relatives.
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Gordon G. Smith
Maple Avenue
Old Orchard Beach
Charter House
Portland
Air Force Police
Korea
Jack Meyers
Winter Street
Meyers
the Smiths
Wells Town Committee Meets and School Open Houses Nearby
The Wells Democratic Town committee meets tonight at 7 30 in Wells Town hall. Red Cross first aid and mass care classes are held Mondays and Thursdays at Wells Elementary and Tuesdays and Fridays at Wells Beach Fire station. Open houses for American Education Week are announced at Wells Elementary and Junior High. Junior High principal Harry A Deshon reports class procedures on November 13 at the new site with refreshments by grades 7 and 8 girls. Carroll Beals, Wells Elementary principal, says open house will be November 14. A hayride is scheduled by the Wells First and Second Congregational churches Senior Youth Fellowship for Saturday evening. Students in Reading Group A Streets and Roads of Grade 3 at Wells Elementary.
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Wells Democratic Town Committee
Wells Town Hall
Red Cross
Wells
Wells Beach
Harry A. DeShon
Carroll P. Beals
Wells First and Second Congregational Churches
Brownie Moon Play Held in School Homeroom
A Halloween party for Wells Brownie Troop 86 was held yesterday at the Wells Second Congregational church house during the Troop 1 meeting. Miss Antonia Goran ites supervised a reading party with Reading Group B classroom guests, and Mrs Florence Marcotte led games and refreshments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ted
Antonia Goranites
Dorothy Ward
Harriet DeShon
Dorothy Bujold
Wells Brownie Troop 86
Wells Second Congregational Church
Florence Marcotte
Kennebunk News Notes On Substitution And Social Calls
Kennebunk confirms Mrs. Edgar Denger will substitute for Mrs. Extmund L. Cashen as regular correspondent through November 12. News items may be telephoned or sent to her home. Former Old Orchard Beach residents Mr. and Mrs. Roland McDonald now live at 88 Cat Mousam Road. George Evans of Reading Massachusetts has entered the Osteopathic hospital in Portland for observation. The Combination A Volunteer Fire department from central station held a meeting with 27 members attending. Gas mask use was demonstrated for new members and a discussion on buying radio receivers occurred. Meeting presided by Captain Lewis H. Burr. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Stevens Sr. on Main Street West Kennebunk, guests included their daughter Miss Betty Fountain, Cambridge Business School student, and Miss Priscilla Bush, Ritters Floral Design student in Boston.
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Roland McDonald
Old Orchard Beach
Cat Mousam Road
George Evans
Elm Street
Reading
Mass
Osteopathic Hospital
Portland
Central Station
Lewis H. Burr
Maurice Stevens
Main Street
West Kennebunk
Betty Fountain
Cambridge Business School
Priscilla Bush
Norwich
N. Y
Ritters Floral Design School
Boston
Ye These Halloween Youths Spark Egging Spree
In Greenfield Massachusetts more than 100 teenagers庆reated a Halloween joyride that turned rowdy. Egging jams jellies and hair lotions litter the business district as Police Chief John F Murphy worked to quell the disturbance. One youth was booked for disturbing the peace. two were held for questioning and six released to parents.
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Greenfield
Mass
John F. Murphy
AMVETS Post Plans Supper At Old Orchard
AMVETS post in Old Orchard Beach schedules a public supper from 5 30 to 7 30 p m at the Abbott Verville post home on Walnut Street. Junior AMVETS will serve as waitresses. Awards to the post auxiliary and Connie Ellingwood Miss Old Orchard Beach AMVETS 1962 will be presented by Maine AMVETS officials. Social hour with dancing to follow. A by law change and a dual turkey shoot events are noted. Halloween party attendance and other post activities are listed.
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Abbott-Verville Amvets
Walnut Street
Old Orchard Beach
I State Auxiliary
Tony Bill
Membrs
Post Home
First
Felix Neault
Amvets
Jerry Jacques
John Travers
Dan Guarino
Toni Bill
Russell Kimball
Ralph Lariviere
Civics Clubs Chartered At Notre Dame Saco
Charter ceremonies at Notre Dame de Lourdes School Saco recognized Grade 7A and 7B Civics clubs with affiliation to the national Civics group. The clubs adopt Build Better Local Government and will study with Young Catholic Messenger materials to promote informed citizenship.
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Notre Dame de Lourdes
Saco
Commission On
Washington, D. C
Catholic University of America
Young Catholic Messenger
St. Paul Civics Club
Paul Mondor
Cecile Gagne
Gail Jacoues
Patricia Cro’teau
Donald Paquette
St. Theresa Club
Louise, Rousselle
Michelle
L’abbe
Susan Boucher
Marlene Lemelin
Robert Douville
Church Women Observe World Community Day
Arundel council of church women marks World Community Day at the Unitarian Church in Kennebunk. Coffee at 9 30 a m with Miss Abby G Sanderson of South Berwick as guest speaker on Deepen the Channels to Peace. Sanderson long served as a missionary in China and Japan.
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Arundel Council of Church Women
Unitarian Church
Kennebunk
Abby G. Sanderson
South Berwick
Sanderson
Sawatow
China
Sendai
Japan
Milford G. Butterfield
Advent Christian Church
Harold G. Scott
The
Women of the Arundel Council
Southeast Asia
Kennebunk Girl Treated After Lyman Head On Crash
A Kennebunk girl, Mary Ann Hutchins, 17, was treated for cuts and abrasions at a Sanford hospital after her car, driven by Jack Pierce, 21, collided head on with another vehicle on Roberts road in Lyman. The other driver, Frank W Bennett, 50, of Kennebunk, was also involved. State Police, including Sgt. Harold Scribner and Trooper Edward J. Mandell Jr., investigated. The mishap occurred about a half mile from Spang's mill.
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Kennebunk
Sanford
Roberts Road
Lyman
Mary Ann Hutchins
Jack Pierce
David Knight
Alfred
Frank W. Dennett
Harold Scribner
Edward J. Mandell, Jr
Spang’s Mill
Lebanon Area church notes and community updates
Sunday sermon by Rev Ernest Roberts on Our Great Friend based on John 15 10 17. Mrs Roberts sang Only Glory By And By. Visitors included Norma Day from Dover guest of Forrest Hanscom and Bessie Lewis guest of Fred Gale. Couples club formed with officers named. Reports of local visits and hospital stays, an illness, and funeral notices for J S P Jones of North Lebanon. George Stuart and family visited Acton, and plans for reception and meetings noted.
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Ernest Roberts
Roberts
Norma Day
Dover
Forrest Hanscom
Bessie Lewis
Acton
Fred Gale
Isabelle Rand
Wesley Bumford
George Stuart
Robert Wood
Louise Bumford
Raymond Goodwin
Sanford Hosital
Reginald Spinney
Kittery
Lebanon School
Phillip Grant
Debby
Newington
N.H
Charles Grant
Fred Rand
Sanford Hospital
North Lebanon
J.S.P. Jones
Barney
Hiram
Sanford
J.S. Parker
Brockton
Mass
Moulton Jones
East Lebanon
Selectman
Ruth Stevens
Old Orchard Beach Civic Group to Meet Tonight
The Old Orchard Beach Women's Civic Group will meet at 7 45 tonight in the high school cafeteria. All women of the community may attend.
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Old Orchard Beach
Democrats Lack Candidate For Mayor In Saco
Democrats discussed plans for the November 6 state elections at a Saco meeting in GAR hall. Rep. Camille Bedard led in chairman Boutet's absence, urging a Democratic vote to oppose Estey unemployment law and to back the Maine retirement system in trust. No December 10 mayoral candidate was named as ward committees had yet to meet.
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Saco Democrats
Gar Hall
Camille L. V. Bedard
Democratic City Committee
Chandler Boutet
Bedard
Estey
Maine
Robert Fenderson
Donald Perrin
Saco
Harvey Lam
Beach Sunbeams Attend Conference Rally in Keene NH
A group of 24 Sunbeams and four leaders from Old Orchard Beach Army traveled to Keene New Hampshire for a rally with about 207 Sunbeams from northern New England. The Old Orchard Beach troop led by Mrs Beverly Bryant placed second in the troop review. Ten Sunbeams performed a five minute Ugly Duckling, wearing costumes, and won first place. Sunbeams are girls ages 6 to 11 with meetings every Thursday at 3 PM at the Salvation Army hall to learn cooperation. National Apple Week runs October 11 to 20.
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Old Orchard Beach
Keene, N. H
New England
Beverly Bryant
Ete
Salvation Army Hall
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le Foyer
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Leona Sinclair
Yvonne Marcotte
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Rolande
Albeo G
Lapierre
Edmund Cashen
Edgar Denger
York Street
Tel
Extmund L. Cashen
Eveready
Amvets Post
Old Orchard
Notre Dame
Journal
Kennebunk Girl
Lebanon
Clement P. Wight
Dial
Beach
Biddeford
South
Oleo
Sneider’s
Food Center
West St. Biddeford
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