Three Candidates Leading With No Appointment Yet. Mr. Eales’s Friends Are Confident.
The postmastership fight, it is rather thought, will be settled by another week. The three leading Republicans whose names Congressman Powers is considering are believed to be Hon. F. A. Falos, Perley B. Thompson and Ed- L. Bigelow. Mr. Fales’ friends feel more confident this week than they have yet felt and point to certain strong points in his favor. They say that he is the only man who has had long and continued public service in just such details of routine as the office demands to recommend him. He was a friend and adviser of the late postmaster and is popular with and has full confidence of the employees of the office as he had a great deal of business with it in Mr. Wallace’s time and enjoyed a large share of the confidence and esteem of Mr. Wallace himself. Even those who do not like Mr. Fales personally, and a public man always has enemies, admit that he would make a strong man for the place, well equipped for the duties of the position and would be a safe postmaster. Mr. Fales’ strength has grown perceptibly in the past two weeks. He has the endorsement in a marked degree of the plain people, the rank and file of the citizens, including a number of Grand Army men.
Some of the best known businessmen of the town are also on his side. It is believed that he would conduct the office in that calm, quiet, dignified, business-like way which distinguished Mr. Wallace, and that like him he would treat all classes with courtesy and respect. His acquaintance with public men and public business of all kinds makes him a particularly desirable man for such a position and the calm, conservative element, which is made up of men who attend to their own affairs and care, little for politics in its partisan or narrow sense, would be pleased with such a man. As far as political issues go, however, Mr. Fales is an unswerving Republican and has done service for the party for years.’ Large numbers of people who would like to see the office managed in pretty much the same way that Mr. Wallace managed it consider him a perfectly unobjectionable candidate and one who, under all the circumstances, would do as well as anyone for the place. While others may have their preferences there is certainly a large and growing element which considers Mr. Fales to be on the whole the safest, most satisfactory man for the position.
THIS DAY IN NORWOOD HISTORY
Library Throws Book at Woman in Norwood-July 27, 1984
Susan Andrews became the first person arrested in Norwood for failing to return overdue books to the Morrill Memorial Library.
Appeals Board Postpones Decision On Norwood Golf Course Proposal-July 26, 1973
The Norwood appeals board postponed a decision on developer Frank R. Simoni’s proposed 97-acre golf course near Access Road, requesting a certified site plan.
St. Catherine of Siena Church Completes Historic Organ Restoration-July 26, 1977
Parishioners and teenagers at St. Catherine of Siena Church in Norwood successfully restored an 1874 Simmonds pipe organ through a cooperative community effort.
Norwood Voters To Act On 12‑Article Warrant-July 25, 1967
Norwood residents debated parking, schools, cemetery expansion, and land transfers at a 1967 town meeting.
In Memoriam: Principal John P. Piccirilli
Principal John P. Piccirilli guided Norwood High School through decades of academic, cultural, and structural change. His steady leadership, compassion, and commitment to students shaped the lives of thousands. We honor his remarkable legacy and service to the Norwood community.
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