The Westford Wardsman, December 2, 1916
Center. Samuel H. Balch succeeds H. Bert Walker as caretaker of the Unitarian church since the former’s [sic, latter’s] removal from town.
One of the leading social events of the season will be the annual firemen’s ball which takes place on January 5, with Poole’s orchestra, of Boston, in attendance.
Mrs. George T. Day, who underwent a serious surgical operation at her home on Friday of last week, is resting comfortably. Miss Regan is the nurse in attendance.
The date of the reception to welcome Rev. and Mrs. Howard A. Lincoln into the church and community has been changed from December 13 to December 12. The committee in charge are Mrs. J. E. Knight, Mrs. Isles, Mrs. S. L. Taylor and Mrs. F. W. Bannister.
Mr. and Mrs. John P. Wright are having alterations and improvements made in their home.
Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Wheeler spent Thanksgiving with relatives in Newport, R.I.
Rev. and Mrs. L. H. Buckshorn entertained Mrs. John Burbeck and Misses Grace and Mary Burbeck for the holiday.
Rev. H. A. Lincoln enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. and Mrs. James L. Kimball over last Sunday.
Mrs. Edmund Day was eighty-four years young on Thursday of this week. Enjoying good health and with pleasant outlook in life she was the recipient of cards, flowers and other gifts; also, good wishes for other pleasant birthdays.
The public libraries of the country and the Boy Scouts are co-operating in the observance of “Good book week” from December 4-9. The plan is to stimulate a more lively interest in good reading, especially among the young people, and to make available to parents help in selecting books for purchase as Christmas gifts for their children.
Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Blaney and family spent Thanksgiving with relatives in Framingham.
Mrs. Augusta Prescott enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with her two sons; also, other kindred from out of town.
Rev. Howard A. Lincoln preached his first sermon as pastor of the Congregational church last Sunday. A good-sized congregation listened to a good sermon on “The lives we build.” At the evening service Mr. Lincoln spoke most appropriately for the Thanksgiving season on “The message of the Pilgrims.” At a business meeting Mrs. James L. Kimball was accepted into membership by letter from Tremont Temple, Boston. A letter of dismission was granted to Mrs. Jennie Bifield, now living in Nashua. Mr. Lincoln, who arrived in town on Wednesday with Mrs. Lincoln, expects to get moved into and settled in the parsonage this week.
Arthur E. Day and James W. Rafter are among those who have attended the Billy Sunday meetings in Boston. A week from Saturday the Men’s class and others plan to attend a service at the Sunday tabernacle in a body.
John M. Fletcher, Miss Eva A. Fletcher and Mr. and Mrs. M. E. Buchold the latter of Silver Hill, were the guests at J. H. Fletcher’s for Thanksgiving.
Mr. and Mrs. Oscar R. Spalding entertained a family group of twelve for Thanksgiving day.
Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Hildreth entertained their Malden relatives for the holiday. Harold W. Hildreth went to Brockton, where Mrs. Hildreth and baby Richard have been spending several weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence.
Red Cross Christmas seals are on sale in town and it is hoped people will bear in mind the cause they represent and purchase them as liberally as they can.
Deaths. Mrs. Kendall [Susan Elmira (Wright)] Wright, who suffered a stroke of paralysis at the home [56 Main St.] of her son, Perley E. Wright, a week ago Saturday, died on Monday. Mrs. Wright, who was aged 79 years 1 month and 6 days, was born in Westford, being the daughter of James Wright, of the north part of the town. In young womanhood she was married to Kendall Wright, and while her home has not always been in Westford, she has always cherished a keen interest in her native town and its people. She, with her late husband, were former members of the Union Congregational church. Mrs. Wright possessed a gentle, refined and capable personality. The funeral services were held at her late home on Wednesday afternoon at two o’clock. Rev. L. H. Buckshorn was the officiating clergyman. Mrs. Charles H. Wright and Mrs. David L. Greig sang “There’s a beautiful place called heaven” and “The christian’s good night.” The bearers were Horace Gould, H. L. Wright, Arthur E. Day and L. W. Wheeler. Interment was in the family lot in the North cemetery.
James B. Nathans, formerly of New York, and who had been spending the autumn with his daughter, Mrs. J. Henry Colburn, on account of impaired health, died at a hospital in Lowell on Thursday of last week. He had only been removed to the hospital but a few days previous to his death and at the last his death was sudden. He is survived by his daughter, Mrs. J. Henry Colburn; also, a second wife and two young children. The burial took pace at Fairview cemetery last Saturday afternoon, where a committal service was conducted in charge of Rev. L. H. Buckshorn.
About Town. The Unitarian Sunday school gave a Thanksgiving concert on Sunday evening to a full and appreciative audience that was out to encourage and inspire. The choir loaned themselves in the anthem. Others who were part in the program as children of the Sunday school were William and Mary Carver, Marden and Gordon Seavey, Fisher Buckshorn, John Fletcher, Freida [sic], Alice and Maude Johnson, Marion and Mildred Fletcher, Everett M. Benault, Edna Hamblin, Betty Prescott, Elizabeth Wells. Rev. L. H. Buckshorn also gave a reading.
Rev. L. H. Buckshorn preached an eloquent sermon last Sunday on “War and business ethics.” Next Sunday he will speak on “The world’s tragedy and the church.”
J. Henry Colburn is in the carpentry employ of Needham & Fletcher, Littleton.
One stave from the Old Oaken Bucket farm is visiting at the Thomas E. Taylor’s [half-brother of Samuel L. Taylor, the About Town correspondent] in Woodsville, N.H., who celebrates his seventy-third birthday and fiftieth anniversary of his marriage coming closely together—the former on November 23, and the latter on November 28.
The Pitkin family of Vermont, formerly of the Drew-Read farm, have become part of the farm reliance for labor.
Mrs. Solon Dodge, of Groton, has been a recent visitor with her uncle and aunt, Charles E. and Miss Belle Walker, at the old Walker homestead on Main street.
The Old Oaken Bucket spent part of their energies and some appetite with the Fred A. Snows in West Chelmsford, Thanksgiving day.
Twenty-four from Westford Grange were in the brave line against storm, darkness and a liberal contribution of mud last week Thursday evening and fulfilled the neighbor night promise to West Chelmsford Grange. Tyngsboro Grange was also present.
Mrs. George H. McGregor, of Westford Corner, observed with friends last week sixty-nine years’ worth of live and be useful.
At the birthday-marriage anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Taylor in Woodsville, N.H., Tuesday, the G.A.R., by Comrade Willis, presented each with gold souvenirs, and the Pine street neighbors followed the same trail. Relatives in Westford, West Chelmsford, Lowell, New Jersey, North Dakota and other places in New Hampshire were in the receiving line by the proxy of congratulations and substantial California gold.
There was a gathering of Grangers last Saturday evening at the home of Mrs. J. E. Knights, lecturer, in the interest of the lecturer’s program for 1917.
Death. Rev. Edward B. Maglathin [sic, Maglathlin is correct] died at his home in West Bridgewater on last week Friday in his sixty-fifth year. He was ordained to the ministry in 1881, and for four years was minister of the Unitarian church in Harvard. For two years [1887-1889] he was minster of the Unitarian church in Westford, and for two years he was one of the masters of the high school in Cambridge. In 1889 he was appointed superintendent of schools in Easthampton. In 1891 he was elected superintendent of schools in Easton. In 1896 he was a director of the Bristol County Teachers’ association and served five years. In 1893 he was called as minister of the First Parish in West Bridgewater, where he served as minister for more than twenty years. As a resident of Westford, he is well remembered for his unflinching loyalty to convictions, and his cultured and genial personality and scholarly life. In political matters, as in his religious convictions, he was industrially loyal to truth as he read it up and thought and acted it in life. He was a loyal believer in free trade without any custom house, reservations for revenue, and was ever ready to defend this faith with all on-comers. While a resident of Harvard he was chairman of the democratic town committee, and in Westford was active in the cause of humanity as it revealed to him truth. He left a widow and several children.
Graniteville. Miss Marie Louise Brule and Dennis Gagnon, two well-known young people of this village, were united in marriage at the parochial residence of St. John’s church, North Chelmsford, on Monday morning, November 27, at nine o’clock. The ceremony was performed by Rev. Henry L. Scott. The bridesmaid was Miss Ruby Gagnon, a sister of the groom, and the best man was Norber [sic] Brule, brother of the bride. The bride’s costume was of white satin, trimmed with lace, with a white picture hat of the prevailing mode. Immediately after the ceremony the wedding party were conveyed by automobile to Lowell, where a wedding breakfast was served at the Richardson house. In the evening a wedding reception was held at the bride’s home in this village that was largely attended by friends of the young couple. After a brief wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Gagnon will take up their residence in this village.
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