Fire Department hosts its first ball. Special Town Meeting votes to add 2 rooms to Forge Village schoolhouse, to establish firemen’s pay, & to lease space for 3 firehouses. Work progresses on grounds around recently completed Center school. Two Worcester men walk 38 miles to spend a few days in Forge Village.
Fire & hose companies in Center, Forge Village & Graniteville give themselves new names. Horse is stolen from Parkerville barn, the second stolen recently in town. Over 30 cases of measles—among both adults & children—reported in Graniteville. Tadmuck Club hears talks on birds, trees, seeds & flowers.
Stony Brook School students enjoy sleighride. Auditor’s report in Annual Town Report shows a town surplus of $426.07. Town Meeting votes to grant liquor licenses for first time since 1886. Selectmen vote to grant two liquor licenses though they’re personally opposed to the sale of liquor.
Parkerville school temporarily closed due to outbreak of measles. Rain, snow & ice don’t keep people away from annual dinner at the Town Farm.
Westford Water Co. turns on public water supply. Three women with Westford ties added to list of eminent American scholars.
Special Town Meeting votes to purchase fire apparatus.
H. E. Fletcher & Co. engine house on Oak Hill is destroyed by fire. Churches, schools & clubs celebrate Christmas.
Tadmuck Club hears talk on household economics.
Unitarian & M.E. churches hold successful harvest suppers. Old Norway spruce reminisces about its 50 years on Main St.
Construction of the new Center schoolhouse begins. Thomas Carney, a Civil War veteran & oldest man in Westford, dies at 96 years old.
The ladies’ aid society of the M.E. church holds a successful lawn party
Abbot Worsted Co. closes to give workers a four-day 4th of July holiday. Special Town Meeting votes unanimously to build a four-room wooden schoolhouse on Main St. at the intersection of Depot St.
The bandstand next to the M.E. church, an eyesore for several months, is torn down. Ten-year-old boy drowns in Graniteville quarry.
