The children of the Stony Brook School plant trees, lawns & flowers in observance of Arbor Day. Abbot & Co. erecting three double houses on Pond St. Residents boycott trolley over fare increase between Center & Brookside to 15 cents.
Enterprise Club presents play with cast of almost 40. Several residents travel to Washington D.C., enjoy sightseeing & meet newly elected President Taft & his wife. Forge Village man arrested for attempt to blackmail Julian Cameron.
Town Meeting votes on improving roads & the land adjacent to the Frost School, controlling gypsy & browntail moths, eliminating a discount for early payment of taxes, & moving the firehouse from the rear of Town Hall to Parkerville.
Enterprise Club holds its first meeting at the Unitarian Church. Cameron students raise funds to purchase piano for the school. Schools & clubs observe Lincoln’s centenary. Westford Water Co. releases its first annual report.
Selectmen solicit funds to aid sufferers of an earthquake in Italy. School Committee names new Center school for William E. Frost. H. E. Fletcher Granite Company supplies stonework for new U.S. treasury building in Washington, D.C.
“About Town. An important book [“A General Catalogue of Trustees, Teachers and Students, Westford Academy, Westford, Mass.,” compiled by Cornelia Fletcher Day and published in Westford in 1912] will soon be published, under the direction of Mrs. George T. Day, who has for several years been collecting names and dates of former teachers and scholars of Westford academy from its incorporation up to and including the centennial year
H. E. Fletcher Company leases steam shovel to enlarge its quarry. Chicken pox is prevalent among the children in town. Cameron School students sing the “Carnival of the Flowers.”
Severe “drouth” doesn’t affect the display of fruits & vegetables at agricultural fair. Census of school children between the ages of 5 & 15 records total at 435. M.E. Church reopens after extensive repairs & alterations. School in Graniteville named the Sargent School.
C.F.A. (Companions of the Foresters of America) holds “a gala day” with a baseball game & other attractions, finishing with supper & a dancing party. “The pretty new four-room schoolhouse” in the Center opens, with one room unused due to the decision not to transfer pupils from Stony Brook and Minot’s Corner schools.
School Committee reverses decision to close 3 schools. Kathryn Brown lauded as first girl to swim across Forge Pond. Unitarian Church is redecorated. William A. Woodward is appointed new principal of Westford Academy. Arrest made in series of hen thefts.
A circular driveway is built in front of the new Center school. Children’s day is well carried out at the Congregational Church.
“Board of education” votes to close 3 schools & to rename the Forge Village schoolhouse the Cameron School. WA graduation held at Town Hall; alumni hold annual reception & dance. Total valuation of town assessed as $1,753,489; personal property $5,814; number of horses 400, cows 751, swine 150 & hens 3245.
