This Day in Norwood History-Talk Of The Town-August 16, 1901

These news items were the talk of the town on August 16, 1901

James Reardon is the Norwood letter carrier now on vacation. He will visit Five Islands, Me.

Mrs. L. H. Beaver and children returned last Saturday from Falmouth Heights, where they have been taking a week’s outing.

Mr. J. S. Cushing has returned home and is up to his neck in business after several weeks of yachting and militia training.

List Wednesday morning Ernest W. .Ellis received the New York Journal’s draft for $100 as the prize awarded to his son, Raytnund Wilbur Ellis, in the international baby contest.

The Norwood band will play at Walpole tonight. There is sure to be a large attendance.

Dr. Francis M. Cragin is enjoying great hunting anil fishing on the northern shores and “forests primeval” of Evangeline’s country, Acadia, just at present, or at least will enjoy them when he gets to Nova Scotia. The doctor left here yesterday, accompanying a huge party from Boston and vicinity. He will enjoy a week’s outing in a region full of caribou and moose, and expects to have some very interesting tales to tell on his return.

A small fire was discovered at H. E. Farnsworth’s bakery at about 9 o’clock Tuesday evening. The damage was very slight, a burnt towel being the principal casualty.

Thomas A. Houllahau has returned from the Buffalo Exposition and is greatly delighted with the show.

Alisses Rachel and Alice Haddon have gone to Wrentham for a stay of a week or two at Mr. Whitney’s cottage.

Miss Mann of the Norwood Press has relumed from Lho Buffalo Exposition.

Norwood’s tax rate will be $19.40 per $100.

Mrs. Mary Brearly, mother of Robert Brearly, left here Wednesday for her old home in Lancashire, England.

Misses Kathio and Cleo Lehman leave for the Exposition at Buffalo this evening. They are accompanied by their brother, Wiuliold Gebmau.

Miss Ethel Hartshorn and her cousin, Miss Elsie Robinson, are visiting friends in Taunton.

Miss Eva Wood is taking her annual vacation. Her sister, Miss Amy Wood, is taking her place at J. A. Crocker’s.

Miss Clara F. Gay has been visiting Provincetown for a few days this week.

Mrs. A. L. Ide and Mrs. Daisy Storey returned from Lake Archer, Wrentham, last Sunday night.

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pratt of South Framingham were the guests of Elmer McLellan the early part of the week.

Benjamin Nead returned Monday morning from a two weeks’ visit to Lake Archer, Wrentham.

Dr. H. Sanche’s Oxydonor Victory is now known as one of the most powerful healers of all human ills. You have only to apply it to be freed from the sufferings of disease and only to try it to be fully convinced. The instrument may be had at 27 Cottage Street. Full particulars from Mrs. K. McLane.

Ray L. Phipps and wife of East Walpole have returned from their wedding trip and are settled in their new home on Nahatan street, Norwood.

Several prominent business men have asked us to call attention to the fact that Norwood has two new trains, our in and one out from Boston, Which are uncommonly convenient for the traveling public. These are new trains to dwellers in the present decade, though they are practically the same trains that the town had twelve years ago. One of these trains leaves Boston at 8.30 a.m., and makes no stop until it reaches Norwood. The oilier leaves here at 5.22 p.m., and is practically an express to Boston. Those interested feel that a liberal patronage should be given these trains, which are a great public convenience, and that theN. Y., N. II. & H. R. R. Co. be given to understand that Norwood is not ungrateful for these favors.

John Oldham has returned from his trip to Five Islands, Me., and brought home a mighty string of fish.

Victor Wolmer’s new building, on the corner of the Nathan Johnson place, was staked out this week, and will probably include a restaurant down stairs and rooms for rental up stairs.

E. M. Sullivan and family are expected home from Wayland next Monday.

Dr. C. S. Gould’s present residence is receiving a handsome coat of paint. The doctor’s new house is rapidly approaching completion.

Edgar F. Roby and family returned home from Southport Wednesday morning.

Harry Marston arrived in Southport Wednesday morning and is stopping at Hotel de Currier.

Dr. MulverhiB, who is almost as well known in Norwood as in Westwood, lias two Eskimo dogs at his Westwood home, which arrived Wednesday and are great curiosities. One of them is a full-blooded Eskimo canine and was born in Chicago. The other is not full-blooded, though it is a very interesting animal. These dogs somewhat resemble collies, though they are considerably smaller. They are nervous and high-spirited and a little cranky in temper.

Louis A. Currier has been taking his annual vacation and is visiting old friends in Newburyport.

Mrs. F. M. Leland has rented the Fred Boyden house, Nichols and Cottage Streets, and will remove there August 21.

Dana Fisher has been spending a few days at Onset this week.

B. R. Doody of Canton, who is associated with Richard E. Oldham in the Alpha Acetylene Gas Generator Co., has gone to Chicago in the interests of the enterprise.

George Dexter returned from South-port Wednesday. C. B. Dexter has now gone there for a short time.

Misses Bessie and Jennie Hubbard are J spending the week in Providence and Worcester. Their brother, Halbert Hubbard, joined them Thursday.

The Caleb Ellis house has had quite a succcessful journey through the meadow thus far, and will probably be in its purposed location on Day Street soon.

Harry L. Rhodes, wife and daughter leave the lust of the week for Maine, and will afterwards visit Block Island.

J. E. Plimpton paid a short visit to friends in Lowell this week.

Thu M E. church people hope to have their church building fully completed and ready for dedication on the second or third Sunday in September.

Rev. John Lawrence Seaton returned from his summer vacation last Monday, and found that his parishioners had sent in a very acceptable gift in the shape of a handsome Morris chair.

Rev. Stanford Mitchell of Caribou, Maine, was visiting here Wednesday.

James Black, lately of Providence, has moved into the J. W. Talbot house, corner of Washington and Granite streets.

Mr. and Mrs. N. L. Sheldon are attending Vermont’s Old Home week celebration. On Wednesday last Mr. Sheldon was re-elected secretary and treasurer of the Vermont Association. A very good portrait of Mr. Sheldon appeared in the Boston Globe of last Sunday.

Did you get up at 4 o’clock this morning to see the comet?

The pile driver has been set to work putting in the foundations of the new bridge which the Norwood, Canton & Sharon street railway company will build across the Neponset river.

F. II. Hartshorne left yesterday for Sag Harbor, L. I., for an outing and rest.

Use Crooker’s Soft-Knots for coughs.

Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Colburn left San Francisco Wednesday on their return trip. They will stop in Chicago for a week or so, and then visit the Pan-American.
Harry Allen returned Monday from a vacation among the iroiuiUdns of New Hampshire.

Ralph Loomis of Bedford has been visiting his aunt, Airs. W. T. Whedon, this week.

Now that our popular iceman, E. W. Ellis, has won the club prize offered by the New York Journal for the handsomest specimen of an American child, it is very pertinent to ask, “How would you like to be the iceman?”

Miss Maud Alolleson of Medfield was calling on Norwood friends yesterday.

.Miss Louisa Geary paid a short visit to Norwood friends this week.

Mrs. Irene Clark, Washington, and Guild streets is receiving a visit from her brother, II. J. Buck of New York City. Mr. Buck is accompanied by his wife and family.

Air. and Airs. N. B. White returned last Saturday from a three weeks’ visit to friends in Buffalo, N. Y., and vicinity. They were accompanied on the trip by their grandson, Master Raymond White.

Miss Ruth Ingraham of Medford is visiting her grandfather, G. L. Ingraham, of Nahatan Street.

A party of guests from the Norwood House enjoyed a very pretty trolley ride on the Norfolk Southern Saturday last, with an incidental picnic at the very attractive grove at North Foxboro, at one time used as a public park. The party are warm in their pieces of the picnic grounds and report a thoroughly good time. Those participating were Mr. and Mrs. George A. Uphill, Mr. and Mrs. M. R. Stubbs, Miss Eva Lowne, Airs. A. J. Kimball, Mr. Robert Rogers and Air. Richard Keefe.

Airs. Frances Dunbar of Stoughton and her daughter, Grace, are visiting Airs. William L. Bacon.

Mrs, Herbert Chickering is visiting friends in Vermont in company with Miss Harriet Davenport.

John F. Callahan and Herbert Carson engaged in a fishing expedition to the wilds of Norfolk yesterday afternoon.’ This paper goes to press a little too early to give a full report of the results.

Air. and Mrs. J. G. Hollingsworth arc taking in the Buffalo Exposition this week.

Oliver McLeod and his son Milton have gone to Prince Edward Island for a short visit.

Quite a large shipment of returning Sonthportites was received here Wednesday morning.

A number of Norwood people attend the socialist lecture by Rev. W. II. Smith of East Pepperell on Walpole common last evening. B. F. Chamberlain of the Walpole socialist club presided, and the lecture was listened to by an audience of 300 or 400 people. Air. Smith favored earnership as opposed to the ownership of everything by the few, abused the rich and their vices in vehement style, and thought that under the co-operative system a man might easily earn fifteen dollars a day, and have what he got. The people are now mostly leaving the churches. He urged the rest to get out on the streets among the people. The lecture was closely listened to and the best of order was maintained.

(Originally published in the Norwood Advertiser and Review)