Firemen enjoy a turkey supper at the firehouse, the last supper of the season. Wardsman correspondent writes lengthy defense of crows. The Alliance buys “curtains of artistic color and texture and new shades” for First Parish Church.
Middlesex County Extension Service sponsors an evening of motion pictures, entertainment by Frost and Parkerville schoolchildren, and an exhibition by members of the Sewing, Poultry, Bread, and Lunch Clubs. Tadmuck Club holds its annual luncheon and election of officers. Work to begin on adding four rooms to the Sargent School
Unitarian Church nets $200 at its Easter sale. Congregational Church holds an Easter concert, and Sunday school children give an Easter concert.at Methodist Church. St. Catherine’s observes Easter with two masses.
Julian Cameron’s large automobile is stolen from Main Street during a dance. A family on Lowell Road gives “a delightful party…in dedicating their newly installed radio set.” Concert in Forge Village to aid St. Catherine’s building fund is a great success.
Middlesex County District Attorney is featured speaker at Unitarian Layman’s League’s supper. The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Methodist Church elects officers for the current year. Abbot Worsted and C. G. Sargent’s Sons mills are running on a four-days-a-week schedule.
Selectmen order a quarantine for all dogs due to rabies outbreak. First thunderstorm of the season is followed, a few days later, by “a good old-fashioned snowstorm.” Firemen hold “another of their enjoyable suppers” with 22 in attendance.
White sea gulls seen flying over Stony Brook. Rabid dog bites two people in Graniteville. Brothers rescue a collie that fell through thin ice on the mill pond.
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Snow affects attendance at the American Legion dance & prevents delivery of mail from Chelmsford to Westford. Library displays a “fine set of colored photographs” taken in the Madeira Islands. First Parish’s first-floor social rooms are being renovated.
A moose with horn spread of 4 feet is “freighted” over the Stony Brook Railroad. In spite of one of the worst storms of the winter, a large audience in Graniteville enjoys the Western movie “The Spoilers,” followed by a comedy. Some ardent Forge Village soccer fans attend the big Eastern semifinal between Fall River and Bethlehem Steel in Brooklyn.
Selectmen vote to not have a salaried police officer, & appoint a Select Board member to act as chief. The Tadmuck Club’s Reading Club holds its first meeting. Graniteville night school students hold a well-attended dancing party in Town Hall
Man apprehended while stealing property from a Nab Lake camp. Several Westford men petition County Commissioners for relocation & repairs of section of Littleton Road. Library urges fans of “Vanity Fair” to read Thackeray’s letters in Harper’s Magazine.
No one is seriously injured when an Reo Speed Wagon, filled with high school pupils returning from a basketball game in Groton, skids & overturns. The Progressive Poultry Club has an enjoyable sleighride party & hears a talk on “grading and testing of birds.” The featured movie in Graniteville is Jackie Coogan in “Oliver Twist.”
