Historic Article Category: The Westford Wardsman

Republican town committees meet to plan their annual outing. The boys at the Y.M.C.A. camp at Lake Nabnassett are making a lawn tennis court. Local farm harvests its first sweet corn of the season.

Two summer camps & a garage on Lake Nabnassett are totally destroyed by fire. The Abbot Juniors baseball team twice beat Forge Village team. Abbot Worsted band has their annual outing at Nantasket beach.

Young people enjoy swimming, boating, races, quoits, & baseball at Congregational Sunday School’s picnic at Silver Lake, Hollis, N.H. Library exhibits attractive set of Italian color posters. Honey Boy Quartet is a big hit singing with the Abbot Worsted band in Forge Village concert.

Boating, bathing, & games are enjoyed at the Congregational Sunday School picnic at Silver Lake, Hollis, N.H. About 100 acres burned in last week’s Rabbit Swamp fire. Abbot Worsted band’s concert at Forge Village is a great success.

Congregational Church’s successful salad and strawberry supper is followed by entertainment. Fire Department battles a “stubborn fire” in the “rabbit swamp” near the Westford-Tyngsboro line from noon till night. Abbot Worsted baseball team defeats South Boston team 11-4 but in a great game loses to the Lynn Cornets 2-1.

The Y.M.C.A. of Lowell’s Camp Nabnasett on the south shore of the lake opens for the summe. The married men defeat the single men in a close baseball game in Graniteville. Abbot Worsted band to start a series of free concerts at the new bandstand at the Cameron school playground.

J.V. Fletcher Librarian May Day attends the State Library Club meetings at Swampscott. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church & the Graniteville Brotherhood hold a socially & financially successful carnival on the church lawn, including an excellent concert by the Abbot Worsted Company band.

Westford Academy graduation exercises in Town Hall feature valedictory speech on “every day uses of the radio;” 14 students graduate. Children’s day program at the Union Congregational Church begins with a march of about 60 children, each wearing a small American flag. A big carnival on the Methodist Church lawn is highlighted by “the Abbot Worsted Company band, doll dodgers and all the novelties that go with an up-to-date outdoor carnival.”

Frost School graduation held in Town Hall. With 21 students, it was the largest graduating class in the school’s history. Graduates then enjoy an outing at Revere Beach. Writer reminisces about 16th Regiment muster just prior to the Civil War.

About 150 attend a lecture on “Americanism” at Town Hall. The final meeting of the Brookside Girls’ Club features a two-act play, refreshments, & “general dancing.” Fourteen-year-old boy saves a seven-year-old from drowning in Graniteville mill pond.

Union memorial services at the Unitarian Church are followed by a luncheon for veterans and military services at the cemeteries. Four veterans of the Civil War are honored. Westford Academy holds prize declamation contest at Town Hall. Special Town Meeting votes down borrowing $85,000 to build a new six-room school in Forge Village.

Ayer High defeats WA baseball team 9-8. Oratorio Society’s first concert is a great success. Improvement Association places a bronze tablet on the flagstaff on the Common, commemorating town’s response to the start of the Civil War.