Congregational Church’s Sunday School enjoys supper and a Christmas program of songs, a play, recitations, and a visit from Santa Claus, who presents gifts and candy. At the Frost School’s Christmas exercises, each child receives a Christmas gift, a box of candy, and fancy crackers, owing to the generosity of the Abbot Worsted Co. Excellent skating has been enjoyed on the mill pond in Graniteville.
The Turner’s Public Spirit issues for October 25 and November 1, 1924, are missing from those issues available online through the Ayer Public Library.]
Couple celebrate their 15th anniversary with a party of entertainment & refreshments for friends. Fletcher Granite’s blacksmith shop destroyed by fire. An officer of C.G. Sargent Sons Corp. & his wife, who are leaving for Miami, FL, are given a dinner & farewell party.
Methodist Church Sunday School class holds a social in the church vestry with games, songs, a piano & violin duet, & piano solos. Local radio fans greatly enjoy getting the World Series results (the Washington Senators won their first & only series, 4 games to 3). KKK meeting reportedly held in Westford Town Hall.
W.C.T.U. elects officers. High elevations in town see first frost of the season. Abbot Worsted soccer team visits Holyoke, defeats Falco Club in a national league game 3-1 Abbot Worsted mills and C. G. Sargent’s shop are running on a full week basis.
The Grange holds a reception for the Superintendent of Schools, teachers, and School Committee members. Abbot Worsted soccer team ties Shawsheen at Forge Village. Motion pictures are being shown in Forge Village every Saturday evening.
Thirty ladies of Congregational Church’s Ladies’ Aid meet to complete articles for the fair. School Committee votes to move the Cameron School sixth grade to one of the new rooms at the Sargent School. Westford Academy Principal William Roudenbush prints a pamphlet on “The value of a high school education.”
Westford Academy enrollment is 87: 55 girls and 32 boys. New automatic flagging signal installed at the railroad crossing at Westford Station on Depot Street. Remodeled Sargent School to open with four new rooms, new seats, a new heating system, and painted inside and out.
All schools open except the Sargent School in Graniteville, whose opening is delayed due to repairs being made. Prof. John Adams Taylor, son of long-time Wardsman correspondent Samuel Law Taylor & the late Alta Taylor, dies. The Abbot Worsted baseball team loses out for the second-half championship in the Boston Twilight League
American Legion Auxiliary & Westford Post corn & frankfort roast at Keyes Pond is postponed on account of the weather. The Northern Middlesex County Republicans’ annual outing at the Whitney playground features speakers, a band concert, & singing by the Honey Boy Four, followed by a ballgame & dance. Local fish & game warden places over 10,000 fingerling trout in the area ponds & streams.
The Spalding Light Cavalry Association, a veterans’ organization, holds reunion at Whitney playground with a clay pigeon shoot, followed by a banquet for 150 men & women in Town Hall. Assessors increase the valuation of the town to a little over $4 million & set the tax rate at $30. [Current townwide taxable value is $6.7 billion; tax rate is $13.77/$1,000.]
Lowell’s Church of All Nations closes its industrial summer school with an outing at Lake Nabnassett with about 200 children. Pictures of “The story of Pocahontas and Capt. John Smith” are on display at the library. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Smith celebrate their 35th anniversary with party for 200 at Abbot’s Hall, Brookside.
