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Biddeford Saco Journal

Location

Biddeford, Maine, United States of America

Date

Sep 21, 1959

Page

3

Kennebunk Social and Club Updates in Goose Rocks Beach Area

Miss Sophronia Marsh purchases a home on Fletcher Street and hosts move in with Miss Marsh occupying Mrs Marjorie Fessenden. Judy Bryant enrolls as a Keene Teachers College freshman. Edmund Cashen on 15 day leave from Charleston visits Kennebunk. VFW ladies auxiliary opens fall with supper on Fletcher Street and committee includes Mrs Lindquist and Mrs Bouvier. Local residents move homes on Grove and Brown streets. Frank Blake returns from Georgetown cottage. Various church and lodge activities planned including Calico Tea at Drakes Island and Olive Rebekah lodge meeting at the I O O F hall.

Sophronia P. Marsh Goose Rocks Beach Raymond Johnso Fletcher Street Marjorie Fessenden Miss Marsh Judy Bryant Russell Bryant Kennebunk High School Keane Teachers College Keene N. H. Edmund Cashen S. N Phyllis Lindquist Flora Lindquist Ruby Bouvier Dorothy Labbe Doris Lindquist Lawrence Matthews Grove Street Lower Brown Street Frank Blake Friend Street Five Island Georgetown Mary Holden Auburn Elsie Bouchard Roger Edgerly West Kennebunk Arundel Kennebunk Women's Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Advent Christian Church S. P James Congdon Brown Street U. S. Army Fort Eusis Connie Edgerly Osteopathic Hospital Portland Ernest Morris Conway House High Street Kennebunk Unitarian Church Gordon Howie Drakes Island Olive Rebekah Lodge I. O. O. F. Hall

Old Orchard Beach Notices of Travel and School News

Annie Lord plans a Boston trip then Greenville, S C. Laurence Staples visiting from Greenville. Mrs Slaney to Newark and Greenville, S C. Old Orchard Beach High School class officers elected. Hot lunches served at Old Orchard Beach schools today.

Annie Lord Edward I. Lord Saco Avenue Boston Richmond Lord Greenville S. C Union Avenue Old Orchard Beach Lord Portland Road Saco Laurence Staples Cottage Avenue Howard Slaney Harold Slaney Newark Del Creenville Mr. Slaney Old Orchard Beach High School Mary Verrill Donald Keene William Cook Patricia Allen Bette Manduca Pearl Prosser Lucille Mooers Elinor Smith Jameson School Peggy Armstrong Sue Allen

OES Invitation To Silver Tea At Cumberland Foreside

Members of the Miniwanca chapter Order of the Eastern Star received an invitation from Winnegance chapter to attend a silver tea from 2 to 5 p.m. tomorrow at the residence of Mrs. Horace Hildreth Conifer Ledges Route 88 Cumberland Foreside. Members of the Miniwanca chapter who attended the reception given by Fadette chapter York were invited.

Miniwanca Order of the Eastern Star Winnegance Horace Hildreth Conifer Ledges Route 88 Cumberland Foreside Minivanca Fadette York

Rainbow Girls Install At Beach Thursday

Penny Soderberg daughter of Mr and Mrs Roland W Soder berg of Scarborough will be installed worthy advisor of Old Orchard Beach assembly Order of Rainbow for Girls at a semi public installation Thursday at 8 p m at Robinson Memorial Masonic hall Old Orchard Beach Her installing suite includes Judith Chick marshal Sally Plummer chaplain Nancy Waldron recorder Jane Soderberg organist and Phyllis Stigman soloist Elective officers to be installed are Joan Strickland Sandra Lombard Madeline Wyman and Patricia Smith

Penny Soderberg Roland W. Soderberg Scarborough Old Orchard Beach Nancy Waldron Portland Assembly Jane Soderberg Phyllis Stigman Joan Strickland Sandra Lombard Charity Madeline Wyman Hope Patricia Smith Faith

Stork Shower Feld At West Kennebunk

Mrs. Robert Sampson of West Kennebunk received a stork shower in Arundel hosted by her in law's home. Guests from Sanford Scarborough and Kennebunk attended with gifts arranged in a pink and blue bassinet. A social hour followed with pink and white decorations and a frosting booties centerpiece.

Robert Sampson West Kennebunk Albert Bouvier Arundel Bouvier William Smith Kennebunk Fred Phillips Harvey Cote Norman Stanfield Jack Cronin Antoinette Camire Sanford Dorothy Labbe Evelyn and Jean Scarborough Armand Camire Rober Camire Victor Sampson Roger Edgerly Robert Bernier Ronald Rose William Irons William Pomerleau Delbert Stone Sampson Dolly Labbe Elsie Bernier Ralph Camire Rita Labbe

Honorary honors at York High School event in Maine

In honor of Mrs. Juanita A. Sessions worthy grand matron and Mrs. Dorothy Fessenden grand warden of the Grand Chapter of Maine, at York High School Saturday evening were Mr. and Mrs. Russell Durant, Miss Kay Mewer, Mrs. Violet Mewer, Mrs. Gertrude Leonard, Mr. and Mrs. John Strickland, and Mr. and Mrs. Asa Douglass.

Juanita A. Sessions Dorothy Fessenden Grand Chapter of Maine York High School Russell Durant Kay Mewer Violet Mewer Gertrude Leonard John Strickland Asa Douglass

Louis Balkan Awarded Good Citizenship Medal at Beach Banquet

Louis Balkan of Old Orchard Beach received a good citizenship medal and citation for community service at a testimonial banquet held at Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall on Saturday. The Old Orchard Beach VFW post and auxiliary awarded him for securing admission to veterans hospitals for needy veterans, with many Maine and New Hampshire veterans organizations present.

Louis Balkan Old Orchard Beach Robinson Memorial Masonic Hall Veterans of Foreign Wars Melvin Marshall Ernest Brousseau Balkan American Legion Maine New Hampshire Arthur Balkan Harold Lappin Barbara Providence Robert J. McFarland American Legion Department Thomaston Sumner Marshall Alfred Anthony Rumo South Portland National American Legion Rumo Maurice Dennis Auburn Dennis Robert Bickford Kittery York Council Floyd J. Daley Portsmouth N. H Talmadge Allen Amvets Allen Maurice Parisien Cumberland Council Tra Fonda VFW Fonda Warren Albee

Maine Man Ads In Coverage of Khrushchev Visit

A Brunswick newsman joins hundreds of reporters covering Premier Nikita Khrushchev’s U S visit. Paul K Niven from a Maine newspaper family will present an 8 15 broadcast nightly on WGAN Portland for CBS Radio. Niven previously served as a teen stationed in Moscow.

Maine Khrushchev Brunswick Nikita Khrushchev United States Paul K. Niven WGAN Portland CBS Radio Niven Moscow

Beach Woman Feted At Bon Voyage Party

Mrs. Alice Bellevue was guest of honor at a bon voyage gathering hosted by Mrs. Avis Briggs at Lawn Avenue Old Orchard Beach. Bellevue sails from Montreal to England Thursday to visit relatives. cake with a boat load of money symbolized well wishes. Several dozen friends attended and arranged by a group of local women.

Alice Bellevue Avis Briggsy Lawn Avenue Old Orchard Beach Bellevue Wesley Boulevard Forest Avenue Montreal England Pearl Prosser Priscilla Bibber Frances Johnson Gertrude Leonard Ruth Marshall Avis Briggs Robert Bellevue Ethel Wight Gertrude Wight Barbara Lord Hilda Staples Evelyn Presley Mary LaBranche Sally Shenkel

Biddeford Priest Named Acting Hallowell Pastor

Rev. Francis J. Kane of St. Mary parish Biddeford was named acting pastor of Sacred Heart parish Hallowell during Rev. Wilfred J. Bernard’s illness. Kane left Biddeford Saturday to begin interim duties and will return in about six weeks to resume parish work at St. Mary. He will not be replaced in Biddeford during his absence.

Francis J. Kane St. Mary Parish Biddeford Sacred Heart Parish Hallowell Wilfred J. Bernard Cornelius Enright Father Kane

Advent Christian Society Notice From Old Orchard Beach

A fragment notes the Women’s Christian Home and Foreign Mission society of the Advent Christian church located on Saco Avenue in Old Orchard Beach. Further details are unreadable in the OCR snippet.

Saco Avenue Old Orchard Beach The

Woman Milliner Sally Victor To Speak To Boston Business Leaders

Sally Victor, famed milliner, has been invited to speak at the Boston Conference on Distribution, a major gathering of business school and chamber members from Harvard, Boston College, MIT, Northeastern, and more. She jokes she is not a PhD, plans to bring hats and a model or two to illustrate how a hat can signal success to men.

Associated Press Big Business Sally Victor Boston Business Schools of Harvard Boston College Boston University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Northeastern University Boston Chamber of Commerce Sally Uates

Sunday School Outing at Robinson Farm Draws 31

Sunday school and church outing held yesterday at Robinson farm on Ross road in Old Orchard Beach. Thirty one persons attended the corn and wiener roast. Saco reports an accident free weekend with no traffic accidents logged by police Saturday and Sunday.

James J. Mullen Knghts of Columbus Old Orchard Beach Wagon Wheel Old Orchard Robinson Farm Ross Road Saco

New Hampshire Bishop Brady Dies at 66

The Most Rev. Matthew F. Brady D D bishop of Manchester N H died of a heart attack after collapsing while descending stairs in the Hotel Vermont Burlington where he was attending the 13th New England Congress of the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine. He led New Hampshire Catholics numbering about 208000 and priests offered artificial respiration before a doctor arrived.

Burlington Matthew F. Brady D. D Manchester N. H New Hampshire Vermont New England Confraternity of Christian Doctrine

Bishop of Manchester Diocese Served Since 1944

He had served as bishop of the Manchester diocese which encompasses 113 parishes throughout New Hampshire since November 17, 1944.

Manchester New Hampshire

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