The Westford Wardsman, September 23, 1916
Center. A very pretty home wedding took place at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Julian Whitney on Wednesday evening at 6:30, when their daughter Stella was united in marriage to John S. Olsson, of West Chelmsford. Arthur Whitney, a brother of the bride, was best man and Miss Ida Olsson was the bridesmaid. The bride was gowned in bridal white and at the close of the ceremony a reception was held, followed by refreshments. After a wedding trip the young people will make their home in West Chelmsford.
Miss Pauline Wallace and Miss Marjory Seavey returned this week to their studies at Boston university, this being their junior year.
Miss Grace Ranney, of Wayland, is the teacher at the Parkerville school this year, and boarding at Mrs. Crossland’s. This is the only district school in session in town at the present time.
Mrs. Mary L. Moran is acting as housekeeper for the Homer L. Seavey household.
Miss Ruth Tuttle and Alfred Tuttle are having electric lights installed in their home [14 Boston Rd.].
The Henry M. Wrights of Quincy were over Sunday guests at H. L. Wrights’.
H. Bert Walker has been receiving instructions this week to enable him to act as spare motorman on the branch line electrics as occasion requires.
The Boy Scout Calendar, a monthly publication devoted to the interests of Boy Scouts in Lowell and vicinity, has just issued its first number and proves a very readable little magazine. Therein are set forth the aims and interests of the organization and of special interest is an article entitle, “The Boy Scout as an asset to the rural community,” by William C. Roudenbush of Westford academy and scoutmaster of troop I [1] of Westford. Mr. Roudenbush has devoted time and thought to the work and the article is most interesting and instructive. Other articles in the same issue are by Hon. John Jacob Rogers, James Kibard and Alex. E. Williams.
Little Miss Elizabeth Carver observed a very happy sixth birthday anniversary Monday of this week. A group of playmates were invited in the afternoon for games and later [each] little guest received as a souvenir a prettily decorated pink basket filled with candies while their hostess was the recipient of pretty gifts and remembrances. Those present were Betty Prescott, Elizabeth Wells, Dorothy Anderson, Alice Heywood and Elizabeth and William Carver.
Charles O. Prescott and William E. Wright have been drawn to serve as jurors for the fall term of court at Lowell and Cambridge.
At the evening service at the Congregational church last Sunday Prof. John Adams Taylor was the speaker of the evening. A large and attentive audience gave interested attention to his able interpretation of Israel Zangwill’s three-act drama, “The new religion.” Prof. Taylor brought out the lesson of the play with clever skill and the evening was much appreciated by the people of his home church.
Among the little people who have started the long path of education and entered school for the first time at the Frost school are Betty Prescott, Elizabeth Carver, Alice Heywood, William Wright and Elizabeth and Helen Hildreth. There are fifteen in all in the entering class in charge of Miss Edith A. Wright as teacher. The total enrolment at the school is 130 pupils.
Helen Socerelis has purchased a new Ford automobile truck to use with her fruit business.
The Edward Fishers removal from town is much regretted. They will move from their recently built camp at Forge pond, where they have been spending the summer, to Lowell. Mr. Fisher’s helpfulness in the community will be much missed.
Annual Fair. The annual agricultural fair under the auspices of the Union Congregational church took place on Wednesday afternoon and evening. Good weather, good patronage and willing workers made the affair a success. There was the usual attractive display of fruit, flowers and vegetables and salestables [sic] for fancy work, aprons, food, candy and fish pond for the children. The fancy table was decorated with hydrangeas and scarlet salvia; the apron table with green and pink crepe paper; the candy table with red and white with canopy, and the food table in pretty autumn leaf design. The stage was handsomely trimmed with hydrangeas and asparagus.
The Chamberlin Corner neighborhood had some very creditable exhibits, especially those from the Drew fruit farm. H. G. Osgood exhibited a dozen varieties of fine apples, as also did Mr. Sargent. S. L. Taylor had on exhibition potatoes, corn and apples that captured prizes at the Middlesex-North fair. Charles D. Colburn’s group of produce was much admired. Other exhibitors were Dr. Blaney, Charles O. Prescott, Ralph Bridgeford, John Wilson, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Roudenbush, Mrs. Lambert, Misses Atwood, C. Willis Hildreth, Mrs. F. C. Wright, Eben Prescott, J. F. and R. E. Sweetser.
The entertainment consisted of Booth’s orchestra of five pieces of Lowell. They gave a fine concert supplemented by solos, instrumental and vocal. Miss Orpha Hutchinson, also of Lowell, was the reader and proved herself a charming entertainer. A harvest supper was served by the men of the church from 6:30 to 7:30.
The following people made up the committees:
Arrangements, Rev. David Wallace, Mr. Wheeler, Miss Atwood; entertainment, Mrs. Hartford, Mrs. Perley Wright, Mrs. Sutherland; decoration, Eliot F. Humiston; display, Mrs. Lambert, Miss May Atwood, Miss Martha Symmes and Mr. Rafter; auctioneer, S. L. Taylor; fancy table, Mrs. L. W. Wheeler, Mrs. Roudenbush, Mrs. Hartford, Mrs. Merritt, Mrs. Humiston, Mrs. P. E. Wright, Mrs. Robert Elliott, Mrs. Loveless, Mrs. Amesbury, Mrs. Goode, Mrs. Lindsey, Mrs. J. L. Kimball, Mrs. Labouteley, Mrs. Lydiard, Mrs. Snow, Misses Weitz, E. A. Wright, Hamilton and Pyne; apron table, Miss Loker, Mrs. J. W. Day, Mrs. Willis Hildreth, Mrs. C. H. Wright, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Watson, Mrs. Ferguson, Mrs. Steele, Mrs. Bright, Mrs. Pyne, Mrs. W. Symmes, Mrs. S. Wright, Mrs. T. Symmes, Mrs. Bridgeford, Mrs. MacDougal, Mrs. Vose, Mrs. N. Prescott, Misses Green, MacDougal and Crocker; candy table, Miss Wilson, Mrs. C. Hildreth, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. R. Taylor, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Meyers; food table, Mrs. J. Wright, Mrs. S. Taylor, Mrs. Knight, Mrs. Greig, Mrs. Banister; mystery table, Misses Bunce, Grant and Osborne.
About Town. At the Middlesex-North fair at Golden Cove last week, the Boutwell school, Groton, took first premium in children’s exhibits. It was an exhibit that had the uplift lever to it and appealed to the finer and diviner in human possibilities. The Old Oaken Bucket farm won first on potatoes, field corn and sweet apples, and second on Williams. 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":1492,"page":1},"signature":"b3d150d62024616202f09d33aed4cfb3"} } const xhr = new XMLHttpRequest() xhr.open("POST", url, true) xhr.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/json;charset=UTF-8") xhr.send(JSON.stringify(body)) }) })();