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Newspaper
Biddeford Saco Journal
Location
Biddeford, Maine, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1961
Page
7
Mrs Nolan Craver of Homer Ill collects about 300 pitchers of many sizes and descriptions. They are not baseball pitchers but glass drinking pitchers linked to family tales and antiques. The largest is about 70 years old and repree from the Alamo era.
Council Chagnon and the Union St. Joan the Baptist of America advanced plans for the annual Children's Halloween party to be held Tuesday night. Free tickets for children in the juvenile division and adult club members will be distributed Sunday morning at the club hall. Reports covered prizes refreshments and a social with Ernest Valliere chairing the kitchen committee.
Train times shift with Eastern standard time on Sunday October 29. Leave Biddeford for Boston at 8:28 a m daily arriving 10:35 a m, and 2:05 p m daily arriving 4:42 p m, with Sunday 10:20 p m arrival. Boston to Biddeford departures include 9:00 a m Saturday and Sunday arrival 11:08 a m, plus daily 1:15 p m and 5:55 p m arrivals, ending at 8:00 p m.
Three area youths completed nine weeks of recruit training at Great Lakes Naval Training Station and, after 14 days leave, are ready for advanced training. The trio includes John C. Brown Jr of West Kennebunk, Paul R. Bragdon of Kennebunk, and John C. Kopetski of Biddeford.
The Biddeford-Sace Jaycees voted a meeting in the Biddeford City building last night to oppose a proposed change in state by-laws to place chapters on probation that fail to reach certain membership standards. The chapter approved sending a letter requesting a stand on the matter. An invitation to a Jaycee seminar in Richmond Monday night was read and accepted. President Bart Shipley presided. One of Europe’s oldest wildlife preserves on Farne Island was established in 675 A.D. by St. Cuthbert and remains protected.
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