The Westford Wardsman, November, 1913

Saturday, November 1, 1913

Center. Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Hildreth entertained over last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Robert Elliott, of Lowell, and also their more distant friends, Mr. and Mrs. Victor Cutter, of Guatemala. Mr. Cutter holds a responsible position as manager of the Guatemala division of the United Fruit Co. Mrs. Cutter is the daughter of the Dutch ambassador to Guatemala from Holland.

Schools were closed this week Friday to give the teachers opportunity to attend the Middlesex County Teachers’ convention held that day at Tremont Temple, Boston.

Quite a few in this vicinity were affected by the closing of the Traders’ bank as depositors. If any were interested as stockholders they have not said much about it. The general feeling seems to be that the depositors will ultimately recover their amounts with possible loss of interest.

Peter Whitney passed quietly away on October 24, and was buried on the grounds at the Whitney homestead. Peter had been for many years an esteemed member of his household. He was an unusually affectionate and intelligent cat, deep yellow in color. Peter always returned the affection and good will of the members of the household, being particularly fond of the late Mr. Whitney, and one of his interesting habits was to start to the station to meet his master at his regular train time.

Mr. and Mrs. William E. Anderson and little son are at Mr. and Mrs. Charles H. Wright’s for a visit.

Warren E. Carkin is a busy man these days. Besides his carpenter work he has several houses being painted, among which are John P. Wright’s, Frank C. Drew’s, and his own home. He has ten men at work for him.

The Board of Trade held a well-attended meeting at the town hall on Tuesday evening, at which those present voted to protest against the discontinuance of the two late cars on the main line. The officials of the company will be asked to return to the former schedule.

The school pupils at the Center held a Hallowe’en jollification under the direction of their teachers at the town hall on Thursday afternoon. A committee consisting of one from each class had the entertainment in charge.

Under the auspices of Westford academy an attractive course of entertainments is planned to take place during the winter months.

The Henry M. Wrights send pleasant and interesting letters to the Westford friends of their travels and experiences abroad. At present they are staying in London.

Frank C. Wright, of R.F.D. No. 1, is having the sixteen-days’ vacation allowed by the government and William E. Green is substituting for him. Mr. and Mrs. Wright have been enjoying some auto trips with their ford car, among which was one to Lebanon, N.H., to visit Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Wright. Accompanying them on this trip were Mr. and Mrs. Warren Wright.

William Sutherland and his daughter, Miss Jeneatte Sutherland, are removing from the Drew house that they have occupied for some years, to the house formerly occupied by W. M. Wright and the late Mrs. Wright.

Mr. and Mrs. William Pollock welcomed a baby daughter [Marian Rebecca Pollock] into their home the latter part of last week [Oct. 25, 1913].

Joseph E. Knight, himself into the seventies [75], went last week to visit his mother at Scarboro, Me., who is nearly ninety-one. Mr. Knight is one of the family of twelve children, eight of whom are living, among which he is the oldest member.

Mrs. Luanna Worthen was a visitor at her kinsman’s, George W. Heywood, last week.

A third son [George Albert Drew, Jr.] has been born to Mr. and Mrs. George Albert Drew at their home in Greenwich, Conn.

Mrs. Amanda T. Fisher, who has been seriously ill for a number of months, is reported as much more comfortable in every way. With the aid of other members of her household she has been able to go from room to room upstairs recently.

The marriage of Harold W. Hildreth and Miss Edith M. Lawrence takes place this Saturday at the home of the bride in Campello, a further account of which will be given next week.

Mrs. Homer M. Seavey has been enjoying a vacation of a few days this week with her friends, Mr. and Mrs. Herbert D. Foss, of Cambridge.

John Sherlock, of Ayer, was at his old post as motorman for the branch line electrics on Tuesday of this week while Motorman Cutter had a day off.

Mrs. Lucy A. Yarnold, at her home in Parkerville, has recently suffered with a badly disabled hand. Some months ago a window came down on one finger with much force and the injured member troubled her much and recently she was obliged to have it amputated at the second joint. It was a coincidence that this took place just a year to a day that Mr. Yarnold had his leg amputated after many weeks of suffering from his serious injury by getting cut with a mowing machine.

Tadmuck Club Musicale. The beautiful auditorium of the First Parish church was filled with an appreciative audience of members of the Tadmuck club and their guests to listen to the Hubbard opera talk on Monday afternoon. Havrah W. Hubbard, of Boston Opera Co., was the speaker of the afternoon and proved a most clever and engaging speaker. In his introductory remarks Mr. Hubbard defined the simplicity of art in whatever direction it was expressed. He said frankly that he did not come to lecture, but to give a little better insight and understanding of operatic production as he understood it and made very clear the well-known fact that the one who really receives the best of any entertainment is the one who brings the attitude of understanding, of appreciation and imagination.

Mr. Hubbard then presented the outline of the Neapolitan opera by Ermanon Wolf Ferrari, “The jewels of the Madonna,” in three acts, impersonating the principal characters with entertaining skill, bringing out clearly the sunny Italian environment of the festival day of the Madonna and the romance of Maliella and her rival lovers Genarro and Rafaele with dramatic intensity. The musical illustrations were given by Floyd M. Baxter, pianist, on the fine Mason & Hamlin instrument sent from that firm’s warerooms for the purpose.

The members appreciated the bright autumn day after days of cloudy weather, but much regretted that their sister club at Littleton was observing presidents’ day the same afternoon and any usual interchange of courtesies was impossible. Monday afternoon was the one day this season that Mr. Hubbard could be secured for Westford so the regular day was changed to secure him.

It was very pleasant to have a good group of guests from Ayer, Groton and other outside guests. At this meeting the names of Mrs. S. B. Watson and Miss Mattie A. Crocker were presented for membership.

About Town. Percy Plume, who has been employed as farm hand at Alec Fisher’s, and living in the Whidden house at Westford station, has moved to Ashland, N.H.

At the close of registration Saturday evening the following additional names were registered: Arthur G. Walker, Percy A. Yarnold, E. Clyde Prescott, Edwin O. Roby, William Roudenbush, Alfred W. Tuttle, Ammignesticern Cappico.

The next meeting of Middlesex North Pomona grange will be held at Odd Fellows’ hall, Bridge street, Lowell, Friday, November 7.

The West Chelmsford Debating society has got a move onto it early and has ordered up a debate to take place next Tuesday evening at Historical hall, when the following question will be loosened up: Resolved, “That it is both safe and just to allow Harry K. Thaw You do not have to travel far to find town farms well managed by an economical board of overseers with not even a suspicion of graft, with an average of three inmates where the taxpayers adjust themselves annually to be taxed $1500 a year, besides the income of a well managed farm to support an average of three paupers and three persons to look after three paupers.

If private enterprise should farm that way every farm would be for sale under the bankruptcy act. Government ownership go hide until thou hast learned the law that governs the conduct of men towards government ownership.

It is the law of business life as well as in the nature of man that the greater the wealth that is doing business the more extravagant is the management. The town is rich, the state is richer and the United States is richest of all. So let us become not little, petty unpopular pickpockets, but respectable grafters.

Good authority estimates that the United States has paid out millions in fraudulent pensions to dead men or dead beats and to men who never enlisted in the civil war so that they could have an opportunity to become dead men. Private enterprise, in pure self defense, would have to weed out such pickpocket ownership. But the government is rich and there is no end to our wealth. Three cheers and hurrah for government wealth and the government doing everything and nothing for all hands to do but to turn pickpocket.

But our New England town meetings, where the people rule with “all hands up,” are often cited as the direct say of the people and so wise and so close to government ownership. Just take a backward look and see a town as a government owning ten schoolhouses and being suddenly overtaken with a fill of pride it set out to build ten new schoolhouse. An effort to choose a committee to investigate the matter of reducing the number of houses was voted down quicker than a hungry hen could swallow corn. Said schoolhouses were all built new. Suddenly the town was overtaken with a fill of wisdom and concluded that it had no use for so many houses and they are being sold for $100 apiece in lots, or $200 apiece if you don’t take but one—they cost upward of $2000 apiece.

If private enterprise should build a house at great cost and then concluded it had no use for it somebody would be placed under guardianship. For exemplification of extravagance and graft the government wins over all others.

Graniteville. Alexander McDonald, superintendent of streets, with a gang of men, has just finished scraping and cleaning up the debris on Broadway, certainly making a fine job of it for this street was never left in better shape, particularly at this time of the year. The entire job was finished last Saturday.

Joseph Wall is having a new bungalow piazza built on his residence to replace the old one. P. Henry Harrington has the contract. Mr. Wall is also having his house wired for electric lights.

Many of the local hunters have been scouring the woods for deer this week, but so far have had very poor success. One party started out at one o’clock in the morning on Monday in order to be among the first in the field. They were the first all right, but after spending the day in the woods they returned empty handed, all wondering why the deer had not waited their coming.

The members of Court Graniteville, F. of A., held their regular meeting in the rooms of the society on Thursday night.

The block system is now finished on the Stony Brook branch of the Boston and Main railroad here.

Work on the garage of the Abbot Worsted Company is now nearing completion and the garage will be ready for occupancy in the near future. The inside finish is also being put on at the office building, which has been recently enlarged.

Under sanction of the Westford board of selectmen and the board of health notices have been placed on the land in and surrounding the baseball grounds prohibiting all persons from dumping rubbish, or refuse of any kind, on those premises under penalty of the law. The grounds are now in good shape and if the people who have been careless in the past will discontinue being so all will be well in the future.

The first real snowstorm, though not very heavy, occurred here on last Sunday and no doubt the slight fall aided the hunters in the slaughter of deer this week.

The regular meeting of Court Westford, M.C.O.F., which falls on the last Thursday of this month, will be held on Wednesday, November 26, instead.

T. B. Hunter, who has been spending the last few weeks here as the guest of Dr. and Mrs. W. H. Sherman, left for his home in Phillips, Me., a few days ago. Dr. Sherman accompanied him on his homeward trip and the doctor also called on several relatives and friends in the former home in Damariscotta, Me., before he returned.

Forge Village. Mrs. Charles Blodgett and daughter Florence spent a few days recently at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Tuttle, of Lowell.

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Burnett entertained at their home on Saturday and Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Morris and little son William, and Miss Emma Boucher, of Winchester.

Mrs. Augustine Carkin is ill at her home. Her daughter, Miss Ethel, is caring for her.

Sunday, services will be held at St. Andrew’s mission at 9:30 in the morning. The pastor will take for his sermon the story of Jonah and the whale.

The funeral of Mrs. Mary Coburn took place from her late home on Thursday morning at seven o’clock. At 7:45 a funeral service was held in St. Catherine’s church, West Graniteville, at which the pastor, Rev. Edmund T. Schofield, officiated. Miss Mary F. Hanley presided at the organ and the full choir was in attendance. After the services the body was taken to Lowell, where interment was in the family lot in St. Patrick’s cemetery. The bearers were Francis Lowther, William Leahy, Joseph Wall and Hugh Daly.

The Ladies’ Sewing Circle held their regular meeting in Recreation hall on Thursday afternoon. At the conclusion of the meeting tea was served. The Circle held four suppers and one sale during the past year, the total proceeds of which amounted to $132.72. This year the Circle has more than doubled itself and it is hoped that a very successful year will result.

The mills of the Abbot Worsted Company will close on Thanksgiving day and remain closed the remainder of the week.

Saturday, November 29, 1913

Center. Schools closed on Wednesday afternoon for the Thanksgiving recess, lasting until Monday. All the non-resident teachers went to their respective homes for the holiday, Miss Grant to Gloucester, Miss Crocker to Boston, Miss Hickey to Wakefield and Miss Ruth Smith to Somerville. Miss Clara Smith spent the day with the Hopedale relatives and Miss Edith Forster with friends in Boston.

At the North Middlesex Teachers’ association convention held at Ayer on last week Friday Miss Edith Forster, of the Frost school, was elected on the executive committee. All the rest of the town teachers were present at the sessions, including Mr. Prescott, chairman of the school committee.

At the meeting of the Tadmuck club next Tuesday afternoon at Library hall the program will be a travel talk. Miss Louisa Phillips Merritt, of Rockland, will speak on “Egypt and Palestine,” illustrated with some fine pictures and also some of her own drawings. Miss Merritt comes highly recommended as an able and entertaining speaker.

Mrs. Henry L. McCluskey and son Donald, of Worcester, were over Sunday guests at Charles H. Wright’s this last week.

Electric lighting has recently been installed at the pleasant farm home of Calvin L. Howard, at the west part of the town.

A Thanksgiving week wedding of interest is that of Miss Ina Grace Lumbert, who was married at her home on Sunday afternoon to Ivan L. Keeney, of Brookline. Rev. David Wallace performed the wedding ceremony. After a wedding trip Mr. and Mrs. Kenney will make their home in Brookline, where the groom is in business. The bride, who has been in the church, grange, musical and social activities of the community, takes with her the sincere good wishes of a large circle of friends for happiness and prosperity.

The union Thanksgiving service at the Congregational church last Sunday evening was largely attended, there being a good delegation from the Graniteville M.E. church. The choir from this church were in charge of the musical part of the service, giving three fine anthems. Their pastor, Mr. Kernhan [Kernahan], gave an address on “The things we have to be thankful for in the temperance history,” after which Mr. Weeks, of the Unitarian church, followed with appropriate Thanksgiving sentiments. Mr. Wallace, of the home church, presided.

E. J. Whitney’s friends are glad to see him about again after his three weeks illness.

Ai Bicknell has the black horse recently owned by Frank C. Wright, and the sorrel horse Mr. Bicknell has had several years has been put to rest.

Rev. David Wallace has joined his wife and daughter at West Hartford, Vt., for Thanksgiving.

The Misses Atwood go this week to spend the winter at Jacksonville, Fla. Previous to their departure they spent the holiday with their brother, Elliot Atwood and family, at Chelmsford.

Among those entertaining large family groups at their homes for Thanksgiving were Mr. and Mrs. H. V. Hildreth, Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Hartford, Mr. and Mrs. O. R. Spalding, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Fletcher, Mr. and Mrs. C. Willis Hildreth and Mr. and Mrs. George T. Day.

A welcome Thanksgiving guest at Dr. and Mrs. O. V. Wells’ is a baby son born on November 24, and who has been named Huntington Learned Wells.

Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Watson and Mrs. Maria Day spent Thanksgiving with the Groton relatives.

The dance given by the young people under the auspices of the Westford A.A. on last week Friday evening proved a pleasant social and financial success. The Crescent orchestra furnished music for the dancing. Ice cream and cake were served at intermission in charge of Mrs. A. T. Blodgett.

Successful Sale and Entertainment. The ladies of the Unitarian society conducted a very successful and well managed sale and entertainment last week Friday afternoon. There were attractive sales tables for home cooked food, candy, aprons and fancy articles. Miss Grace Burbeck and Mrs. Josie A. Prescott presided over the food table, Misses Marjory Seavey and Beatrice Sutherland, the candy table, Mrs. Lizzie A. Hamlin and Miss Mary Moran, the apron table, and Mrs. Harold W. Hildreth and Miss Mary Burbeck, the fancy table. The entertainers were a group of ladies from Cambridge, as follows: Mrs. Grace C. Foss, soprano; Miss Thomas, violinist; Mrs. Blanche Akerly, pianist and accompanist, and Mrs. A. Carleton Potter, pianist. Mrs. Foss, who is no stranger to a Westford audience, was in splendid voice, giving her selections with much gracious charm. Mrs. Akerly, who has also been here before, is a very skillful pianist and accompanist. Lovers of good violin playing much enjoyed and appreciated Miss Thomas’ violin selections, and Mrs. Potter, who was new to a Westford audience, proved herself a very welcome and accomplished addition to this group of delightful entertainers.

At the close of the entertainment ice cream was on sale and a pleasant social hour enjoyed. Over seventy dollars was netted from the afternoon. Those in special charge of the affair were Mrs. H. V. Hildreth and Mrs. H. M. Seavey.

About Town. Frank Davis has left the employ of the Greig farm and has become associated once more with the farm labor interests of the Cold Spring farm. In addition to this usefulness he has hired three acres of land and the building belonging to the John H. Decatur estate on the Lowell road.

Joseph Marshall, a long-time figure at Westford Corner, is seriously ill at his home with cancer of the stomach.

Westford grange will hold its next meeting on Thursday evening, December 4. At this meeting the annual election of officers will take place.

Middlesex North Pomona grange will hold its next meeting at Odd Fellows’ hall, Bridge street, Lowell, on Friday, December 5. The forenoon session will be devoted to the annual election of officers. The afternoon session will be given to the discussion of the question “Equal suffrage.” A stirring time is expected on this question from the women who demand this hearing.

Alec McDonald, superintendent of roads, is improving the dampness of weather and roads hauling gravel from Stony Brook gravel pit to the Stony Brook road, Pigeon hill branch of the road.

Hunters recently discovered at the head of Nabnassett pond what bore the trade marks of an abandoned camp of yeggmen [safe crackers or burglars]. Black masks and other suspicions were found.

William H. Lynds, of Lowell, the noted authority on genealogy, was in town on Sunday. Stopped off at the Old Oaken Bucket farm, thence with “the one horse open shay” to the Francis Hill farm, where the eighty-three years [old] George Spalding has nurtured the soil. The interview brought to light much hidden treasure.

The Fortnightly club will hold its next meeting at the Wright schoolhouse on Friday evening, December 12. An interesting program of song, fiddle and flute is being prepared. If this becomes tiresome declamations, recitations, quotation, citation and debate will be on exhibition.

The H. E. Fletcher Company, Oak hill, have shut down on account of the hardness of the stone market. The spring opening was late and the winter shut down four weeks premature. This unfortunate time table has resulted in “moving the previous question” and labor is looking and moving elsewhere, not for less hours, but for more hours—and the price of living still roosts high.

The Old Oaken Bucket farm will contribute apples and corn at the exhibition of the State grange in Boston in connection with the annual meeting of the State grange. The entire exhibition from all the rural sections of the state will be donated to charity at the close of the exhibition.

The West Chelmsford Debating society will hold another round of those literary boxing matches on Tuesday evening, December 2, at Historic hall.

Scattered members of the once active Westford Dramatic club are squinting at actions that look like giving a humorous play sometime before long. Joseph Wall and John P. Wright have been authorized to do the preliminary squinting preparatory to other acts.

Mrs. Georgie D. Decatur, of Winthrop, was in town on Sunday at the old Peletiah [Pelatiah Fletcher] place on the Lowell road.

George E. Gould, with his new Ford, recently did the courteous act and carried a party to Pepperell.

A large number of people would like to know why the water was shut off at the public drinking fountain this early in the midst of beautiful winter dog days. It can’t be possible, can it, that the fountain itself is such a tender creature that it can’t stand as much frost as a cucumber vine. If it is we had better get one made of the dull times granite of the H. E. Fletcher Company.

Past Masters’ Night. The last meeting of the grange was observed as past masters’ night and they were right there in full evening dress entertainment with cash, cocoa and ice cream free for a say so. This was the lower hall entertainment coming last and mentioned first, but it was unanimously invisibly applauded. The exercises in the upper hall commenced at the second John P. Wright was elected extemporaneous toastmaster. He was in his usual vein which is much more tickling than borrowing some other person’s vein.

The first to be sent to the stage was Miss Smith, of the academy, who called the piano to her assistance and did it so cleverly that she was called to be clever again and accepted the invitation. At the close of this cleverness the name of Mrs. Belle Harrington Hall, of Lowell, was called, and she answered “present” in several humorous recitations which brought forth many encouraging arguments in favor of a continuation, which was responded to. One of the charming numbers was a vocal solo by Miss Lillian Sutherland. She responded to an appreciative audience and sang beyond the limits of the compensation act, other than a satisfied audience.

The invited guests responded as the spirit moved the toastmaster to call them from silence to service. Charles A. Kimball, master of Littleton grange and representative-elect, was the first to be called from the labor of listener to the role of listened to. It was a powerful, wise exchange and the audience applauded this opinion. They will applaud it at the State House.

In behalf of Tyngsboro grange Mrs. Warren A. Sherburne, past lecturer of Middlesex North Pomona grange, responded in a humorous reading which brought forth an overflow. Murray Parish, master of Tyngsboro grange, admitted that he was not the “First Parish” of Tyngsboro, that being the personal privilege of Rev. N. S. Hoagland.

Fred L. Fletcher, past master of Westford grange, responded negative to the invitation to be part of the program, but promised affirmative obedience to some future program.

Rev. David Wallace was called to respond to everything that had not been responded to and covered the unexplored territory in a happy and instructive manner. The only part of the planned program that did not come to trial was the ladies’ quartet, owing to a complication of adversities that could not be shaken with medicine or persuasion. One was sick, another was ill, one had a bad cold, another was hoarse and the fifth was somewhere else. The past masters thank all who did do and sympathize with those who were unable to do.

Past masters Walter J. Merrill and Edson G. Boynton were unable to be present, but sent letters of congratulations and pleasant remembrances of former years. Groton, Tyngsboro, Carlisle, Littleton, Chelmsford and Dracut were all represented actively or silently. The past masters who contributed their “mite” with a part of all their might to this mighty good night were J. Willard Fletcher, Alonzo H. Sutherland, Leonard W. Wheeler, Fred L. Fletcher, John P. Wright, Frank C. Wright, Willey M. Wright.

Graniteville. The regular meeting of Court Graniteville, F. of A., was held in their rooms on last week Thursday night with C. E. Dudevoir, chief ranger, in the chair. Several applications for membership were received. The Court also voted to hold a “ladies’ night” on the first meeting night in December, and the members of Cameron Circle, C.F. of A., are to attend in a body. Each Forester is privileged to invite one guest. A fine time is anticipated. The following committee will have full charge of the affair: C. E. Dudevoir, F. G. Sullivan, Edward Riney, Robert Jones, R. J. McCarthy.

New steel rails are now being put in at the curves and other places along the line of the Nashua and Acton branch of the Boston and Maine railroad. The construction gang makes its headquarters in two cars that are on a siding near the West Graniteville station.

Miss Martha Larman, of Lowell, has been a recent visitor in this village.

Both masses in St. Catherine’s church last Sunday morning were celebrated by Rev. Edward C. Mitchell, who delivered strong sermons at both masses on “Keeping the faith.” Mr. Mitchell also announced that there would be an anniversary mass of requiem for deceased members of the M.C.O.F., to be celebrated in St. Catherine’s church on Thanksgiving morning.

Thanksgiving day was fittingly observed here in the M.E. church in the forenoon at ten o’clock an address being given. The choir furnished some special music for the occasion. In the evening at eight o’clock a very pleasing program was given by the members of the Sunday school.

A very pretty birthday party was held at the home of Marie Louise Guichard in West Graniteville on last Saturday evening when many of her young friends assembled there and helped celebrate her fourteenth birthday anniversary. The time was pleasantly spent in playing games and in various other forms of amusement, and the party broke up at a seasonable hour after all had enjoyed a very pleasant evening. During the evening refreshments were served.

Two Kinds of Hunters. Alfred Hughes, of this village, has the distinction of being the only Graniteville hunter who was fortunate enough to shoot a deer this year. Young Hughes, on his motorcycle, while touring through the country on Thursday of last week, came across three deer on a large knoll, a short distance from the road on the outskirts of Groton. He stopped his machine in short order and taking his gun approached the group cautiously for a good shot. He fired and was successful, bringing down a fine doe. He ran up quickly and gave it another shot and all was over. It is needless to say that the other two deer lost no time in making their escape. Hughes mounted his machine and hurried up the road to Graniteville where he received a conveyance and brought his prize home. The deer was a fine specimen, weighing over 200 pounds and young Hughes was certainly elated over his luck.

Several amusing stories are being told of other nimrods who went a-hunting, among them being the case of three young men from this village [Graniteville] who went in search of deer one day last week, driving an old white horse. After going quite a long distance they left the horse beside the road and went into the woods. When they returned empty-handed some time later they found the horse gone. All thought of deer was then forgotten for their entire time was given in hunting for the horse. After a fruitless search the chase was then abandoned for the time being, while the amateur hunters took a long hike for home.

After a consultation with the owner of the horse a real search was made for the missing animal that was finally located in Tyngsboro the next day. Now those three hunters(?) always see “red” if anybody mentions “white horse” to them, but they are ready to admit that it came near being a very “dear” hunt for them, for they were not very well supplied with “dough.”

Forge Village. A son [Irving William Whigham] was born on Friday morning of last week [Nov. 21, 1913] to Mr. and Mrs. James Whigham.

Dr. O. V. Wells, the well-known physician of Westford, is being congratulated by his many friends in this village on the advent of an heir born on Monday.

Special services were held at St. Andrew’s mission on Thanksgiving day morning at 9:30 o’clock, Rev. Williston M. Ford, pastor, officiating.

On Sunday, Advent Sunday, the choir of St. Andrew’s mission will attend the memorial services at St. Mark’s church, Leominster. The pastor, Rev. Thomas L. Fisher, formerly of St. Andrew’s parish, is having a memorial tablet placed in St. Mark’s church in memory of his mother. The choir will leave here on the 1:45 p.m. car on Sunday.

The Ladies’ Sewing Circle held their meeting on Friday afternoon of this week, owing to the fact that their regular meeting day came on Thanksgiving.

There will be no Sunday school at St. Andrew’s mission on Sunday.

Little Miss Priscilla Bennett has returned home after a visit of two months with her aunt, Mrs. August Myers, of Dorchester.

Charles Coburn has returned to his home in Providence, R.I., after a visit of several weeks with relatives here.

Miss Marjorie Rose, of Belmont, visited her grandmother, Mrs. Elizabeth Splain, over Sunday.

The mill of the Abbot Worsted Company closed on Wednesday night for the remainder of the week.

Edward T. Hanley has purchased an automobile.

Miss Elizabeth Dufort and Mr. Lapointe, of Leominster, spent Sunday at the home of Miss Dufort’s sister, Mrs. Hugh Daly.

Cameron school closed on Wednesday for the Thanksgiving holidays.

Mr. and Mrs. William Burnett and Mr. and Mrs. John E. Burnett, with their baby son, Leonard, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Chester Blodgett, of the Groton Ridges, on Thanksgiving.

The Ladies’ Sewing Circle are preparing to hold a Christmas sale on Friday, December 7. It is hoped that this sale will be well patronized and thus help a good cause. Plain and fancy articles will be ready for sale and a varied assortment will be on hand. Come and buy your gifts early and save carfares to the city.

George Centrebar, who resides on the late William Ward’s farm, was the only successful hunter of deer this year. Many came home from the hunt very disappointed after scouring the woods in vain.