Trolley service resumes between the Center & Brookside. Brookside mills owner is making improvements to Nabnassett pond. St. Catherine’s Church to be renovated, including replacing badly leaking roof. A concert in Forge Village–“the event of the season”–features performers from Boston & Portsmouth.
Town Hall undergoing $1,000 worth of repairs & renovations, & a telephone is installed. Churches celebrate Easter. New school superintendent appointed. Brush & forest fires break out due to dry conditions.
New pastor preaches first sermon at Congregational Church. Town Meeting accepts gift from Mrs. M. Elizabeth Whitney to establish & maintain a public playground & baseball field between the Frost School & the Academy, in memory of her husband Hiram Whitney.
WA basketball team defeats Chelmsford, later in month loses to Stow, then beats an alumni team. H. E. Fletcher granite company has government contract for new post office in New Orleans. Fifteenth anniversary of St. Andrew’s Mission observed with special service.
New law limits mill hours to 56 hours a week, down from 58. Congregational Church’s pastor resigns. Fierce cat fight reported in Forge Village. Large crowd enjoys horse races on frozen Forge Pond.
Library exhibits photographs of Yellowstone Park. Congregational Church holds successful annual banquet. Schools & churches celebrate Christmas. Ice fishing on Forge Pond is allowed for first time in 5 years.
Assessors set valuation of the town at $1.8 million, report number of horses as 382; cows, 78; swine, 80; hens, 4882; dwelling houses, 507. Ellen Swallow Richards speaks to Tadmuck Club. Unitarian Church’s annual fair features play titled “Our Church Fair.”
Pheasants & deer damage local crops. Graniteville football team loses to North Chelmsford in the first game of the season. Tadmuck Club hears talk on “physical culture,” including a demonstration of exercises with wooden & iron dumbbells & Indian clubs.
Residents petition against closing of the Stony Brook School but school is closed & students redistricted to Frost School. St. Andrew’s Sunday school children hold annual picnic at Cameron’s grove. School census shows 448 school children between the ages of 5 & 15.
Sunday school association takes excursion to Canobie Lake. Court Westford, M.C.O.F. hosts Field Day in Graniteville. Forge Village to lose one of its oldest landmarks as Abbot & Co. tears down old spinning room to make room for a three-story brick mill.
“Best ever” 4th of July celebration includes parade, a ladies’ ball game, other sports & a concert. Meeting is held to discuss a proposed soldiers’ monument on the Common. Deer damage corn & berry crops on Francis Hill.
First Parish, Congregational & M.E. churches meet together to observe Memorial Day. Trolley fares are cut in half between Center & Brookside in response to town complaints. Veterans commemorate Bunker Hill Day with an old-fashioned campfire.
