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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Sep 16, 1961

Page

3

Church Directory Listings of Maine Parishes and Services

Directory lists multiple churches across Biddeford Saco Wells Beach Ogunquit Kennebunk Kennebunkport Old Orchard Beach and Camp Ellis with pastors and Sunday Mass times prayer services and Sunday schools. Includes St Mary St Jude St Monica All Saints Second Parish and other parish details and Unitarian Universalist and Methodist listings.

Kennebunkport St. Martha Kennebunkport Sand William J. Kelly J. Henry Fournelle Old Orchard Beach Margaret Church B& Walsh Armand J. Landry St. Jude Catholic Church Pine Point Edward W. Walsh Wells Beach St. Mary Wells Beach Ogunquit All Saints Ogunquit

Episcopal Churches Schedule in Biddeford and Nearby Areas

A list of church service times across Crescent Street Biddeford Trinity Street Saco Portland Kennebunk York Harbor and Old Orchard Beach. Includes Holy Communion Holy Eucharist sermons and morning prayers with observed time changes and nursery care for St David parishioners. Soloist from Grand Opera cited for John by the Sea services.

Christ (Episcopal) Church Crescent Street Biddeford Mark M. McCullough Trinity Episcopal Church Mainlind Cleveland Saco T. S. Knox St. David (Episcopal) Church Portland Road Kennebunk Harold A. Hopkins York Harbor St. Phillip-by-the-Sea Ortunes Rocks Runde] Opera Company John-by-the-Sea John Street Old Orchard

Religious services listed for Biddeford and area

A directory of churches in Biddeford including Second Congregational, First Universalist, Unitarian Universalist at City Square, Second Parish in Saco, Biddeford Pool Union Church with guest preacher July, St Demetrios Greek Orthodox, Advent Christian at Hill and Chapel, Pagal Morton Snow at Mechanic Falls, Foss Street Methodist with South Biddeford, South Biddeford Methodist joint services, and United Baptist on Jefferson Street with morning worship.

Biddeford United Church of Crist H. Lewis Cutler Astor Sunnys First Universalist Church Cityquare Edmound W. Beal Inister Unitarianniversalist Unday Orthosrom Divine Liurgy Advent Christian Church Corr Hill Chapel Streets Pagal Morton Snow City Auare Edmund W. Beal Serice Foss Street Methodist Church Oss Pool Streets Ames D. Riddle South Biddeford United Baptist Church Jefferon Street Morley J. Durest

Church Meeting at Advent Church Saco

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints holds services at the Advent Church on Cleveland Street Saco with Elder J Maurice Dupuis as superintendent Elder Roger V Marden as first assistant and Elder Milton E Hall as second assistant Priesthood meeting at 9 am Sunday school at 10 am

Church of Jesus Christ of Later Day Saints Mormon The Advent Church Leveland Street Saco J. Maurice Dupuis Ider Roger V. Marden Milton E. Hall

Church Services and Ministers in Old Orchard Beach Area

Old Orchard Beach churches list Sunday worship times and pastors: Old Orchard Beach Methodist on Washington Avenue led by Rev John T Stahl with Bible study at 7 pm and morning service at 11. First Baptist on Ocean Avenue with Rev G Stephen Johnston offers Sunday school at 1:30 pm and worship at 2:30 pm. Advent Christian on Seaco Avenue with Rev Her mer Thurlow has 9:45 am Sunday school and 10 am morning worship. Tabernacle Pentecostal at Atlantic and Third Street with Rev Russell K Pier. Sunday school 9:45 am, junior church 11:30 am, morning worship 1 am. Salvation Army at 91 Union Street led by Capt Robert Reid holds services Sunday at 11 am and 7:30 pm, shifted to Tabernacle with guests.

The Bible Baptist Church of Saco John E. Fickett Saco City Hall Second Parish Unitarian Church School Street Peppere| Park Edmund W. Beal Unitarian- Universalist Unitarian - Universalist Church Unitarian Church School Pepperell Park First Univerassist City Square Biddeford First Parish Congregational Church Main Beach Streets Harry A. Rufiero School Street Methodist Church Norman J. Langmaid Saco United Baptist Church Main and Cross Streets Stanley A. Bennett North Steven ‘Christian Dam I A. Christian Science Society Hamilton Memorial Beach Street Salvation Army Main Street Robert Williams Old Orchard Beach Washington Avenue John T. Stahl First Baptist Church Ocean Avenue G. Stephen Johnston Advent Christian Church Seco Avenue Hermer Thurlow Taberacle Pentecostal Church Atlantic Avenue Third Street Russell K. Pier Union Street Robert Reid Tabernacle

Kennebunk Area Churches Schedule Morning Services

A parish roundup lists services at First Congregational Christ Church Kennbunk Baptist Church Christian Science Society West Kennebunk Methodist Kennebunk Landing Free Christian Union with designated pastors and service times including morning worship at 9:00 and 11:00 a.m. Sunday school times are shown as 9:45 and 11:00, plus a 2:00 p.m. Sunday school at the Free Christian Union.

West Kennebunk

Wells Area Church Services And Schedules

Wells First and Second Congregational hold dual Sunday services at 9 a m and 11 a m with Sunday school on hiatus. Full Gospel Church on Route 9-A offers Sunday school at 2 p m and worship, while Highpine Baptist conducts 1 p m Sunday school and 2 p m worship. Wells Branch Freewill Baptist lists 9:30 a m Sunday school and 10:30 a m worship. Moody Community Church in S Route 1 runs 10 m Sunday school and 11 m worship. Reverend lineups include Simpson Nicholson Porter York and Kimball in charge.

First Second Congregational Wells John N. Simpson Mile Road Wells Beach Wells Corner Full Gospel Lula Nicholson Highpine Baptist Church Sanford Road Wayne A Porter North Berwick Wells Branch Freewill Baptist Church Coleman York South Berwick Moody Community Church Moody Community Hall S. Route 1 Nelson Kimball

Sunday worships in Goodwins Mills and nearby churches

Goodwins Mills Methodist church holds morning worship and sermon at 9 30 a m with a church school lesson study led by Mrs Attleson. Advem Christian church with Rev Lloyd Osborne offers morning worship at 11 a m and Sunday school at noon. Lyman Baptist Church led by Pastor Robert J Vance has Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship at 11 a m.

Goodwins Mills Methodist Church

Ogunquit Methodist Church Summer Worship Times

Ogunquit Methodist Church on Shore Road under Pastor Rev. Robert A. Carter schedules Sunday services at 9 30, 11 a m and 8 p m during the summer months. Holy Communion and meditation are held each Sunday at 8 15 a m.

Ogunquit Ogunquit Methodist Church Shore Road Robert A. Carter

Finding the Way Self Made Bosh

Ralph W Loew argues there is no self made man highlighting the role of education and collective effort. He cites teachers parents and administrators and recalls a Brown University anecdote about a boy who carved his desk and could not pay for the world of effort behind it.

Faunce Brown University

Education essential to life and responsibility in learning

The text argues true education goes beyond facts to understanding and meaning. It emphasizes shared responsibility among all adults for a child's learning, noting no one is self-made and society shapes life through education. It urges weighing choices and loving what matters most to life.

Priest Walks Mountains to Serve Isolated Catholics

Father John Reilly, 47, serves scattered Roman Catholics across a 110 mile arc in eastern Kentucky. He travels 35,000 miles yearly, conducts Mass from a chapel in his home, teaches at Our Lady of the Mountain School, and visits Prestonburg and Beauty to minister to Catholics who later marry. He was educated at Boston College Notre Dame and Mount St Marys and began his Paintsville parish in 1957.

Paintsville Father John Reilly Kentucky Father Reilly Boston Our Lady of the Mountain School Prestonburg Beauty West Virginia Boston College University of Notre Dame Mount St. Mary’s Cincinnati

Family Outing To Kick Off Cub Scout Year

Biddeford Cub Scout Pack 305 leaders host a fall kickoff at Boy Scout hall on Mason Street. The October 1 events at the Scout wood lot include games and a first pack meeting, with den cookouts and rain contingency. The third annual Cub Scout circus to raise funds is planned for November 11 at the Mason Street hall. A September 25 committee meeting sets plans, with a social hour and slides shown by Frederick Olson. attendees include cubmaster Raymond Letellier and multiple den mothers and committee members.

Biddeford Boy Scout Hall Mason Street Scout Wood Drews Mill Road Frederick Olson Raymond Letellier Philip Hatch Den Mildred Bryant Lucille Bon Patricia Seward Norma Donovan Ronald Berube Frederick O'Neil, Jr Leo Ross Donald Macomber

Buxton Congregational Churches Schedule Morning Services

Buxton North Congregational Church with Rev David W Smith pastor holds morning worship at 9 30. Tory Hill Meeting House Buxton Lower Corner The Old Peabody Pew church with Rev David W pastor holds morning worship at 11.

North Congregational Church David W. Smith Tory Hill Meeting House Buxton Lower Corner Old Peabody Pew David W

Cape Porpoise Methodist Church Services

Cape Porpoise Methodist Church on the Cape announces church school at 9 30 a m and morning worship at 10 45 a m led by Rev Henry O Megert in the local ministerial schedule.

Methodist Church

Union Church Services in Biddeford Pool August

Union Church Biddeford Pool holds 11 a m services with guest preacher Rev. H Lewis Cutler for August. Sunday school meets at 9 45 AM.

Union Church Biddeford Pool H. Lewis Cutler

Area Churches Services and Schedules

Advent Christian church led by Rev Milford G Butterfield announces church school at 9 45 am and morning worship at 11 am at Village Baptist Church corner Maine and Spring streets with Rev George P Urban pastor church school for all ages and morning worship at 11 with nursery and children's church First Congregational North street and Arundel led by Rev Robert M Howes morning worship at 9 30 am South Congregational Temple street with Rev Robert M Howes morning worship at 9 and 11 am

Village

Kennebunk School Menu Week of September 18 22

The weekly menus list meals for Kennebunk High and Junior High and Park Street School. Each day features a lunch with items like hamburg, baked beans, mashed potatoes, and desserts such as ice cream or cake, with milk offered daily. Several days include fish, ham, or pasta options, plus fruit, vegetables, and bread or rolls.

Hamburg Park Street

Saco Beach Menus for September 18 to 22

Weekly school lunch menu outlines meals for Monday to Thursday. Each day lists a main dish, side items, fruit, dessert, and milk, with variations such as tomato juice and egg salad on Tuesday and shepherd pie on Wednesday.

Shepherd Pie Hamburg

WRC School Of Instruction Set For Wells

The Abraham Lincoln Womens Relief Corps convened at Wells Grange hall to discuss hosting a School of Instruction on October 11 at 10 am with state officers and other corps representatives expected to attend. Luncheon committee includes Mrs. Barbara Lewis Mrs. Helen Roberge and Mrs. Rose Hamel.

Abraham Lincoln Womens Relief Corps Wells Grange Hall Sanford Road Barbara Lewis Helen Roberge Rose Hamel Gertrude Kennard Getwell Donna Lewis Josephine Randall Bessie Kimball Ethel York Alice Davis Ethel Kelley Hilda Hamlyn Irene Kimball Cozy Corner Wells

Local Social and Civil Defense Notes in Kennebunk

Mrs. Edmund Cashen and son Brian visit Boston then New London while Mrs. Fred Wright travels. Kennebunk officials Edmund L Cashen and Dr Milton Hall hear Leo Hoegh speak on fallout shelters at the Eastland Hotel Portland. Youth Cavalcade features Gregory and Kevin Brown on WCSH TV. Olive Rebekah lodge officers elected at IOOF hall after annual meeting.

Fred Wright Brian San Bruno Calif Ernest Smith Fletcher Street Boston Philo van Dyke Storer Street New London Milton Hall Kennebunk CD Eastland Portland Leo A. Hoegh Office of Civil Defense Iowa Hoegh Gregory Kevin Brown Keith Brown Wcsh-Tv Phil Silver Hit Olive Rebekah Lodge Ioof Hall

Kennebunk Board Sets Hearing Date on Plummer Street

The Kennebunk Board of Selectmen met Wednesday and set Saturday September 23 at 9 30 a m for a hearing on accepting Plummer Street in the Jonathan Milligan development off Summer Street. They discussed the October 10 state referendum, road plans, future communication, and regulation of the town dump. Town Manager Fred Staples reported about 60 percent of current taxes paid to date.

Kennebunk Board of Sectmen Plummer Street Jonathan Milligan Summer Street Fred Staples

Scouts Court Of Honor Slated In Kennebunk

Boy Scouts of Kennebunk plan a Court of Honor Monday at 7 15 pm. An Eagle award will be presented along with 11 second class awards and many merit badges earned over the summer. Boys may join at the event and applications will be available. Public invitation extends to all attendees.

Boy Scouts of Kennebunk

Art Craft Classes Display Handiwork at Kennebunk Center

The New Art Center Workshop of The Brick Store Museum closed its summer session with a public exhibition at 4 Dane Street Kennebunk featuring paintings ceramics hooked rugs and stenciled objects. The fall season begins October 1 with weaving rug hooking braiding painting pottery and stenciling taught to at most ten students. contact associate director Mrs. Mary Lord Kline at the museum for enrollment.

New Art Center Brick Store Museum Dane Street Raymond H. Harding Joseph T. Cole Charles H. Bowdoin Josef M. Arentz Mary Lord Kline Brick Store Kennebunk

Tomatoes Lead U.S. Truck Crops in 1960 Harvest Value

The 1960 tomato harvest topped all truck crops with an estimated value of 250 million dollars, about double the value of lettuce, the second-place crop. The figures highlight tomatoes as the dominant truck crop in the United States.

United States

School Lunch Menu Fragment Friday Entry

A fragment lists Friday items including milk, macaroni and cheese, cut green beans, peanut butter sandwich, fruit cup, and milk again. The readable line hints at a standard cafeteria serving sequence for a Friday meal.

Wells Harbor project hearing set for September 22

Wells Harbor public hearing on land for eminent domain was scheduled for Friday September 22 at 7 p m at the town office after a board of selectmen meeting. Land taking will be reviewed with town attorney Barnett I Shur and Carl Beyer. Bids for harbor construction are to be opened late next week by the Army Corps of Engineers with work to begin later and finish by April 1962. A special town meeting in October will authorize eminent domain actions.

Wells Harbor Wells Board of Selectmen Selectmen Barnett I. Shur Ant Carl Beyer U. S. Army Corps of Engineers

Space Dust Studies Grow At OSU Science Lab

Associated Press report from Stillwater Oklahoma describes Oklahoma State University engineers measuring space dust and atmospheric ionization with sounding rockets. Technician Alex Woods sorts glass beads to simulate space particles while a rocket borne microphone records impacts guiding estimates of dust amounts in space and on Earth.

Associated Press Stillwater Okla Earth Oklahoma Stae University Alex Woods Electronics Laboratory OSU U ‘Atmosphere Space Woods Ale

Lost Birds Found Often In City Areas

A feature on how escaped small cage birds, especially budgies, are usually recovered within a mile of home. It advises actions for owners including placing the cage outdoors, enlisting neighbors and even police, posting notices, and gathering local help, with anecdotes from New York City.

New York City

Birth of a daughter to Wakefield family in Old Orchard Beach

Mr and Mrs Charles Wakefield of Denver Colorado welcomed a daughter born Thursday to their family. The infant’s birth coincides with the birthday of Miss Isabella McIver from The Long View Old Orchard Beach. Community notices include Nee Nah Council Pocahontas meeting at 7 30 pm Monday at the American Legion hall and the Methodist Youth Fellowship gathering Sunday at 5 pm with officer installation at Washington Avenue Methodist Church vestry. Orchard lodge A F and A M will install officers at a semi public ceremony tonight at 7 30 at Robinson Memorial Masonic hall.

John White The White Lamb Odessa Avenue Charles Wakefield Denver Col Wakefield Lois White Isabella McIver Long View Old Orchard Beach Nee Nah Council Pocahontas American Legion Hall School Street Methodist Youth Fellowship Washington Avenue Methodist Church Orchard Lodge A. F A. M Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall

Gagne Given 24 Years On Assault Count

Paul Gagne of Biddeford was sentenced to two to four years in state prison by Justice Randolph A. Weatherbee in York county Superior court for assault and battery. He was convicted of attacking Julia B. Bonang in Saco on July 29, with the judge noting the offense was high aggravated and citing an intoxication record.

Paul Gagne Biddeford Randolph A. Weatherbee York County Gagne Julia B. Bonang Saco Weatherbee

Kennebunkport Girl Returns To School

Margueritte E. Pendergast, daughter of Mr and Mrs M Abbott Pendergast, Kennebunkport, returns to Walnut Hill School Natick Massachusetts for her senior year. She plans active participation in academics and extracurriculars and may serve as sidewalk superintendent for the new Conant and Bigelow classroom and science buildings ground broke last May.

Walnut Hill School Natick Mass Margueritte E. Pendergast M. Abbott Pendergast Kennebunkport

Marshall Adds 18 Members To AR Committee

Eighteen new members were named yesterday to the Area Redevelopment committee for the Biddeford Sanford region, representing 22 towns and cities. Committee chairman Lewis K. Marshall listed members from Arundel Newfield Old Orchard Beach Parsonsfield Sanford Springvale Shapleigh Acton and Alfred plus Biddeford Buxton Cornish Dayton Hollis Kennebunkport Lebanon Limerick Limington and Lyman. The list was approved by the executive committee and York county commissioners with Maine Department of Economic Development representatives.

Biddeford-Sanford Lewis K. Marshall Arundel Arthur C. Moulton Newfield John T. O'Neill Old Orchard Beach Keith L. Hasty Parsonsfield William J. St. Onge Sanford Roger C. Gay Springvale Charles Boothby Shapleigh Dana P. Winchell Acton Jerry A. Gile Alfred Hugh

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Church Directory St. Joseph Church Elie Hevey St. Andre Bacon Street Aime Giguere St. Mary Church St. Mary Street Cornelius Enright P. R St. Brendan Notre Dame de Lourdes Arthur J. Dube Our Lady of Victory Church Camp Ellis Georges J Plante Kennebunk St. Monica Episcopal Churches Mormon Churches First Congregational Carl Bierman Christ Church Frederic Holmberg Robert B. Culmer Kennbunk Baptist Church Chester M .Staples Christian Science Society Ralph W. Loew D.D Newspaper Enterprise Assa George W. Hackett Buxton Cape Milford G. Butterfield Kennebunk School Menu WRC School of Instruction Edmund Cashen Kennebunk Board Scouts Elmer C. Hutchins Drakes Island John Barbour Speaking Dorothy Hartlett Tigier H. H. Miller General Features’ Corp Ola Orchard Beach Marshall
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