Town Awoke in Blaze of Patriotic Color
Plans For Tomorrow’s Great Mass Meeting For Preparedness
Norwood awoke this morning to a blaze of patriotic color, every telephone, telegraph, and electric light pole in the town and other points of vantage having been decorated with American flags last night by the local Committee of Public Safety. More than a thousand flags are flying.
This was partly to advertise the great mass meeting for preparedness which is to be held tomorrow (Sunday) after-neen in Everett Hall, at the Civic Association, at 3 o’clock.
The speakers will be Charles F, Weed, president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, and Hon Michael J. Murray, judge of the Boston Municipal Court. Following these speakers five-minute talks will be given by prominent Norwood citizens. Frank G. Allen, chairman of the Board of Selectmen, will preside. The Norwood Brass Band and a trained chorus of 50 voices from the Norwood High School, under the direction of Miss Frieda Rand, will furnish music.
There will be a parade before the meeting, starting at 2:30 from Grand Army Hall, when the members of the Grand Army of the Republic, Woman’s Relief Corps, Sons of Veterans and Daughters of Veterans will be escorted to Everett Hall by companies of Boy Scouts, a detachment of the State Militia under Capt Downes, the Norwood Band and the Norwood police. Chief of Police Harry W. Swift will be chief marshal of the parade.
This meeting is called by the local committee for Public Safety for Norwood, or a committee of 100. The formation of the organization will be explained and permanent officers and subcommittees announced.
This mass meeting is the result of a citizens’ meeting held Wednesday evening at the Board of Trade rooms, presided over by Pres Francis J. Foley of the Board of Trade. A committee was appointed, consisting of James N. Folan, Alfred N. Ambrose. George Harding Smith, C. A. Bingham and Brainard A. Rowe, to make preparations for this meeting.
(All articles originally published in the Norwood Messenger)