The Westford Wardsman, November 23, 1918
Center. Members of Company L, M. S. G., held their regular drill at the town hall on Tuesday evening. Attendance was not as good as usual and the officers urge the members to be present and maintain the excellent credit of the organization, as for the present there will be no disbanding of the company.
Mrs. O. V. Wells and children are making a few days’ visit with Dr. and Mrs. Griffin in New London, N.H.
An all-day Ladies’ Aid meeting was held at the home of Mrs. George F. White on Thursday. The attendance was good and the hospitality of Mrs. White was much enjoyed.
Among the exhibitors at the agricultural fair last week was Mrs. Lucy A. Keyes, with a fine thirteen-pound squash of her own raising and a large collection of white, yellow and pink chrysanthemums, also of her own raising and which decorated the supper tables. Pretty good accomplishment for one eighty-six years old.
The weekly meeting of the Red Cross was held on Wednesday afternoon. The chairman, Mrs. H. V. Hildreth, was in attendance the same day at the annual meeting and luncheon of the North Middlesex chapter of the American Red Cross at their headquarters on Market street, Lowell. James Jackson, division manager of the New England division, was the speaker of the day. Mr. Jackson outlined the probabilities for Red Cross work for the coming months of peace and relief of the countries that have been war-ridden. Instead of any letting up of work, speeding up will rather be the order. While the surgical dressings work can be suspended there is great demand these coming months for sewing on relief garments and a quantity of knitting for the soldiers remaining across the water over winter.
Miss M. E. Plummer, of Forge Village, has recently presented the local Red Cross treasury with the sum of $14.50. This is the result of a sale of her handiwork which she accomplished in spare time during the summer. This fine result of loyalty and interest in the cause is certainly appreciated.
Clipping. Westford friends of Dr. Henry McClusky, of Worcester, will be interested in the recent observance of his fiftieth birthday. We quote in part from the Worcester Daily Telegram of November 18, as follows:
“Christian Endeavors throughout the nation remembered Dr. Henry L. McClusky, 7 Hawthorne street, in honor of his fiftieth birthday anniversary Saturday and yesterday. Dr. McClusky has been prominent in Christian Endeavor work for more than twenty-three years and has filled prominent offices in the organization. Last August he was chosen state president of the Massachusetts C.E. union, of which he has been treasurer for fourteen years. He is president of the Worcester union and was district secretary for several years and also treasurer.
“Congratulatory letters and cards containing good wishes for many more happy birthdays were received from all parts of the country. There were letters and telegrams from the C.E. founder, Dr. Francis E. Clark, who also sent his picture; Dr. William Shaw, of Boston, world’s C.E. treasurer; A. J. Sharpley, manager of the C.E. World; flowers from the Brockton union; plant from the Massachusetts state union; letters from Norfolk county Endeavorers who were at their convention in Walpole; Central Berkshire, Clark, Greenfield, Jr., Haverhill, Barnstable, Lowell, Springfield, Kentucky and Indiana.”
The following evening a party of doctor’s friends held a party at his home with flowers, birthday cake, the presentation of a handsome leather bag and many good wishes for the doctor and his family.
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