
NORWOOD, Sept 28-The new Memorial Municipal Building will be dedicated on Armistice Day, Sunday, Nov 11, immediately after the exercises the first carillon concert will be given, and a second concert will be given on the same evening. As the following day is a legal holiday, a third concert will be given on that evening.
Chairman Francis J. Foley of the Memorial Municipal Building committee has announced the following list of citizens as donors of the fireplace, in honor of Rev George W. Nead, and furnishings and fittings for the memorial halls: Herbert M. Plimpton, James A. Halloran, Thomas B. Mulvehlll, Carl Johnson, Robert E. Costello, Dr. Henry M. Field, Thomas Hayden, James E. Pendergast. Oliver J. Barr, Herbert H. Miller, James M. Folan, Andrew C. Morrow, Nenle P. Morrow, Francis E. Bernier. Daniel E. Callahan, Harry F. Allen, Gladwin M. Nead. Clifford B. Sanborn, William G. Upham, George Bird, Eugene Endicott, Dr. Alfred A. Fenton, Dr. Edward F. Brennan, Benjamin Cushing, Rev James F. Doherty, Edmund Dalton, Mrs. Frank Pales, Mrs. John C. Lane, John P. Welch, James H. Murphy, Dr. Joseph J. Hagerty, George W. Gay, Louis Orent, Mrs. Bernard F. Colburn, Guido A. Stuntxner, Harold W. Baker, Benjamin Kneznek, Ernest H. Grant, Edon D. Smith, William T. Whedon, Jennie F. Foley, George H. O’Brien and Theodore E. Gavin.
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