The Westford Wardsman, August, 1907
Saturday, August 3, 1907
About Town. The state grange’s state board of agriculture will hold a meeting at Whalom park, Monday, Aug. 5. Middlesex North Pomona, of which Westford forms a part, have engaged electrical cars to leave Merrimac square, Lowell, at 8:30 a.m. Among the speakers will be Ex-Gov. Bachelder of New Hampshire, Aaron Jones of Ind., past national master. Those who were present last year and others will find it a desirable after-haying invigorator this year.
The Westford A.A. now has a membership of seventy. Strong in number and proportionate skill, they generally give their opponents a chill. Such it evidently was when last Saturday the Townsend team was scored out in a game of 5 to ??.
The latest is said to read this wa?? A. Chamberlain to Samuel H. Balch’s lot?? and buildings on Main st.
The Congregational church will be closed during the month of August. The cleaning of the carpets and the painting of the auditorium necessitated the removal of the pews to the vestry, so the C.E. meeting will be omitted.
The Committee to appraise the lot of land owned by Arthur H. Foss which is to be taken by the town for the new schoolhouse, met at selectmen’s room on Monday evening, and after a wise and harmonious deliberation the sum of $??? was awarded as a fair sum for both parcels. The sum asked was $2000, or one de?? by a referee. The town decided unanimously in favor of a referee, as an offer of $1500 had already been made by a citizen for speculative purposes. The act of the committee cannot be considered excessive. As constituted by a vote of the town the committee on appraisal was former selectman Alec Fisher, appointed by the selectmen to represent the town, Frank C. Wright, selected by Mr. Foss to represent him, and these two chose Everett L. Woods as the third member. The committee on building a new schoolhouse held a meeting Tuesday evening.
Graniteville. Lawn Party. The ladies’ aid society of the M.E. church held a very successful lawn party on the church grounds here last Saturday evening. The grounds were tastefully decorated with various colored Japanese lanterns. The different booths did a flourishing business in the refreshment line, while E. G. Boynton and Frank Charlton kept the large crowd present in good humor by some excellent phonograph selections. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence DeRoehn came up from North Chelmsford in their Ford car, and Miss Ella Kierstead of Waltham, also a former resident, was present. Although the evening was rather cold for an affair of this kind, the people were out in large numbers, many being present from Westford, Forge Village, Ayer, Groton and surrounding places. Quite a neat sum was realized by this event.
Forge. Mrs. E. M. Gerrish of Seattle, Wash., announces the engagement of her daughter, Helen Marion, to Dr. Charles Albert Weston of Springfield. Mrs. Gerrish and her daughter are for the rest of the summer with Mr. and Mrs. Chester J. Pike in Medford, and were week-end guests of Mrs. Gerrish’s brother, Mr. [Fred Byron] Sweatt and family of this village.
Saturday, August 27, 1907
Center. The building committee for the new four room schoolhouse to be built on the so-called Foss lot, have advertised for proposals on the building to be handed in before Sept. 7.