The Westford Wardsman, August 12, 1916
Center. The Boy Scouts, in charge of Scoutmaster Roudenbush, are camping this week and will probably remain through next week to give some that could not go this week the later opportunity. The camp is located at Hart pond, South Chelmsford, near the Byam camps, and those who have been down to see the boys call it an ideal location, a sort of promontory jutting out into the water, which makes a good breeze most of the time. There are twelve there this week and the charge of the commissary department is no light work, but this Mr. Roudenbush attends to with systematic assistance in rotation from the boys. Those making up the camp family besides Mr. Roudenbush are Fred Robinson, Charles Miller, Fred Amesbury, Charles Griffin, Herbert and Raymond Shea, Carl Anderson, Howard Judd, Walter Socorelis, Bertram Sutherland and George Lindsey. There are four tents in the equipment.
Quite inadvertently we omitted Albert W. Heywood’s name from the group of Westford boys at the Mexican border in bespeaking the thoughtful remembrance of home friends in last week’s issue. He had been previously noted in this column, but should have been included in speaking of them altogether.
The Misses Flanders, of Boston road, are spending a few weeks at Truro, Cape Cod.
Miss Edith A. Wright has returned from a pleasant visit with friends in Maynard and Stow.
Our local tax collect was in attendance last week at the outing of the State Tax Collectors’ association held this year at Brockton.
Miss Mary P. Bunce has been enjoying a week’s vacation from her duties at the J. V. Fletcher library. Her capable substitutes have been Miss Alice M. Howard, afternoons, and Miss May E. Day, evenings.
The Westford A.A. will play the strong St. John’s team of North Chelmsford on Saturday afternoon at Whitney playground. Both these teams have made good records this season and there will be much interest by the friends of both sides in the contest and a large attendance is looked for.
Westford friends extend their sympathy to Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Wall in their great anxiety owing to the serious accident to their son Richard.
Mrs. Gertrude C. Skidmore gave a very delightful summer evening party to the young people of the village on Monday. The party was given for Miss Bessie Hamlin and Miss Grace Adams, of New York, who are spending several weeks at Mrs. Skidmore’s. The supper table, with its well balanced summer menu, was set on the screened-in porch. The table decorations were of pink roses in crepe paper design. A large rose centerpiece concealed favors, which were drawn with attached string running to each plate. These favors were very cleverly chosen by the hostess and caused much fun and merriment. Covers were laid for eighteen. Cards, music and sociability were enjoyed after supper, and when the young people took their departure it was with many assurances to Mrs. Skidmore and her house guests of a very pleasantly spent evening.
The conservation committee of the Tadmuck club, consisting of Mrs. H. E. Fletcher, Mrs. H. V. Hildreth and Mrs. H. D. Wright, took the very original method of raising funds for their work by asking the members to cooperate in saving their newspapers, magazines, etc. These were to be tied in bundles of about twenty-five pounds each, newspapers by themselves, and magazines by themselves. The committee are collecting all that have been saved either the last of this week or the first of next, and it is hoped they will be in readiness; or any that can would please send their collection to Mrs. H. V. Hildreth.
V. C. Bruce Wetmore is having a foreman’s house built to take the place of the Capt. Smith house that was destroyed by fire earlier in the season, and which served that purpose. The house is on the opposite side of the street from Mr. Wetmore’s residence, and the land for the same was purchased from Frank C. Hildreth.
Miss Hazel Hartford and Miss Dorothy Jaques came up from Boston on Monday evening to attend Mrs. Skidmore’s party for the young people.
Very grave reports of Mrs. A. E. Burland’s condition come from the Melrose hospital, where she has been a patient for five weeks, and on Wednesday her family were summoned to her bedside.
Miss Sarah W. Loker will conduct the Sunday morning service of the Congregational church which will be the single service of the day.
The J. V. Fletcher library trustees who do so much for its patrons, not only in supplying the brightest and best fiction but along many helpful and practical lines, have recently added a new and most attractive and adequate guide book of New England. As is well known New England is becoming more and more each season a mecca for thousands of tourists. This book is an annual publication with complete revision each year. It has many maps and illustrations and all the leading routes outlined. The towns passed through on these routes each has brief descriptions of whatever is of historical, industrial or other interest. Another interesting book is “One more chance,” by James P. Ramsey and Lewis E. MacBrayne, 0) { referrer_url = document.referrer; } const params = location.search.slice(1).split('&').reduce((acc, s) => { const [k, v] = s.split('=') return Object.assign(acc, {[k]: v}) }, {}) const url = "https://museum.westford.org/wp-json/iawp/search" const body = { referrer_url, utm_source: params.utm_source, utm_medium: params.utm_medium, utm_campaign: params.utm_campaign, utm_term: params.utm_term, utm_content: params.utm_content, gclid: params.gclid, ...{"payload":{"resource":"singular","singular_id":1505,"page":1},"signature":"5c40bf7cc8a496e614f23a665069e5e4"} } const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest() xhr.open("POST", url, true) xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8") xhr.send(JSON.stringify(body)) }) })();