Turner's Public Spirit, July, 1905
Westford Wardsman
July 1, 1905
Ayer
News Items. On Thursday the selectmen granted a relocation to the Lowell and Fitchburg railway to build their road over Main st., through Columbia, over the Sherwin combination land Nonaicoicus Park over the pond, through Lapointeville, to connect with the highway near Mitchell’s crossing. The company expect to commence work on both ends of the road in about a month and will rush it to have it completed Dec. 31, when their franchise expires. The electric road will be built in first class shape. The highway that they will build will be sixty feet wide, starting from Columbia st. to Sandy Pond road, making a fine boulevard. This will necessitate the moving of two tenement houses and the paintshop of S. F. Farnsworth.
July 8, 1905
Auctions
- P. Thacher, auctioneer, will sell the grass on John Wayne’s farm in Westford, Thursday, July 13, at two p.m.
July 15, 1905
Ayer
District Court. Clarence McLane of Westford, for assault and battery at Westford, July 4, was in court July 7, found not guilty and discharged.
July 7, Henry Gaynon, Thomas Quinn and Michael Rafferty, all of Westford, for committing an assault and battery on Walter W. Wyman and his wife, Gertrude A. Wyman of Westford, July 4, were found guilty and all paid fines as follows: Gaynon, $10; Quinn, $15; Rafferty, $10.
July 29, 1905
Littleton
News Items. The ball game between the Westford A. C.’s and the Littleton Indians on [the] campground, Westford, Saturday afternoon, resulted in a good time all round and a pleasant barge ride in M. W. Leahy’s team. The score was 10 to 7 in favor of [the] Westfords….
Ayer
Electric Road. Excitement over the Lowell and Fitchburg electric road is starting up once more for there is, at last, every indication of a decided beginning. Lumber was taken Wednesday to land owned by Mrs. E. W. Landry, near the Sandy pond schoolhouse, where a shanty will be erected for the Italians. It is said that a start will be made at three places on the line. The engineer for the Philadelphia capitalists is expected soon, and he will be located here while the road is being built. The work is to begin on this end of the line at Nonsicoicus park, and negotiations have been made for a room over Harlow & Parson’s market for headquarters for the management.
The following from the Herald shows that our neighbors are interested as well as ourselves and we hope their difficulties may be settled as satisfactorily as our own seem to have been. The selectmen of Westford are to give a hearing Aug. 2, on a petition of the Lowell & Fitchburg railroad company for a relocation in that town in Graniteville. The purported object of the petitioners is to avoid an overhead crossing over the track of the Boston and Maine railroad, which the commissioners will not allow them to go over at grade.