Frost School Athletic Club has a coasting & skiing party on Prospect Hill, followed by a franfurt roast with coffee and cookies. Nearly 84% of registered voters come out for the annual town election. Abbot Worsted band takes a sleighride to Brookside, then gives a concert before the regular movie show.
Abbot Worsted to close its mills on the day of the Annual Town Meeting. Fish and Game Warden releases 27 snowshoe rabbits. The Mendelssohn Male Quartet of Lowell gives a largely attended & very enjoyable concert at the M.E. Church
Temperatures of 19 and 22 below zero are reported. Successful supper & entertainment held in the Congregational Church. Large crowd attends citizens’ caucus to nominate candidates for local office.
300 supporters, including the Abbot Worsted band, take a special train to Pawtucket & watch Abbot Worsted soccer team lose the eastern semifinal, 2-1. Men of First Parish Church & their friends form the Westford chapter of the Unitarian Laymen’s League. Two Forge Village women charge each other with assault & battery & disturbing the peace; both are found guilty.
Cameron School students’ study of wool is on display at the Fletcher Library as well as pictures by children’s book author Jessie Wilcox Smith. Brookside 9-year-old drowns in West Chelmsford mill pond. Ladies’ Aid Society of the M.E. Church holds a very successful two-day fair and entertainment.
Many turn out for First Parish’s annual meeting despite a snow storm. Soccer fans are making arrangements to charter a special train to Pawtucket to root for the Abbot Worsted team in the eastern championship semifinal. The “independents” win a spirited bowling match at Richards bowling alleys in Graniteville.
Abbot Worsted Co. gives each Frost School student a gift, candy & oranges for Christmas. Ladies’ Aid Society of the Congregational Church sends Christmas boxes to the aged and shut-ins in town. Young people enjoy excellent coasting on Graniteville’s hills.
Selectmen order that all dogs must be muzzled or kept off the streets for 90 days, due to rabies epidemic. Young people from the Unitarian and Congregational churches sing carols on the streets on Christmas Eve. Unitarian Church’s Young People’s Religious Union host a very successful holiday dance at Town Hall, with guests attending from many area towns.
Both the Ladies’ Aid of the Congregational Church & Woman’s Alliance of the Unitarian Church hold all-day meetings: sewing in the morning followed by lunch & business meetings in the afternoon. Police Chief serves a liquor search warrant in Graniteville, finding a copper still & liquors. Successful food sale & dance in Abbot Hall in Forge Village raises funds for St. Catherine’s building fund.
Village Improvement Society holds supper & old-fashioned dance in Town Hall to raise money for illuminating the Unitarian Church clock. WA boys beat Lowell Vocational School in first basketball game of the season. Abbot Worsted soccer team qualifies for fourth round of the national cup series.
Young men of the M. E. church hold their first meeting to plan a young men’s association. A large cross is found burning on Prospect Hill while firemen are holding their annual ball in Town Hall. “[I]t is believed to have been the work of the Ku Klux Klan who are said to announce a large membership in any community in this manner.” Rabies in dogs is so serious & widespread that special police officers are placed in each village to enforce Selentmen’s orders that all dogs must be muzzled.
Many attend WA senior class play, “A Perplexing Situation,” & dance held in Town Hall. Local manager of N.E. Telephone lectures subscribers to check their directory first, before calling “Information.” Village Improvement Society votes to contribute $25 toward electric lighting of the Unitarian Church clock.
