This Day in Norwood History-Talk Of The Town-August 2, 1901

These news items were the talk of the town on August 2, 1901

Mrs. L. A. Currier has returned from two weeks’ visit to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Dewick at Silver Lake, N. H. Mrs. Dewick was recently Miss Cora A. Polk of the Everett school.

Elmer ‘Colwell is quite seriously ill at his home on Chapel Street.

Albert Fairbanks started last Monday morning for his borne in San Diego, Cal., going by the old Panama route. He had intended staying East a little longer, but circumstances forbade. He thinks the hot weather we have had the past summer more trying than anything he has ever seen in California, and is, on the whole, glad to return to a land where they can raise seven crops a year of some products and enjoy strawberries the year round.

Benjamin Nead left Monday for a vacation trip to Lake Archer, Wrentham.

Mrs. Joseph Wilson of Chapel Street fell downstairs and fractured her arm while engaged in household duties on Sunday last.

W. J. Sullivan of the Norwood letter carriers is taking his annual vacation. W L. Bacon is substituting for him, and saw his first day of postal service last Monday.

Cyrus Thorn is ill and confined to the house at the present writing.

Mr. Peter Barr of Cambridge was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Stewart last Sunday.

Miss Marion Clapp of Stoughton is visiting relatives in town.

James F. Costello has been “chasing tie wild deer and following the roe” and otherwise disporting himself in and around Portland, Me., this week.

Miss Hattie Parrock returned to her Igime in Cambridge Sunday evening, after a visit of a few days to Miss Jessie Stewart.

Tlio many friends of Rev. F. P. Estabrook, formerly of Norwood, will be pleased to learn that he has accepted a call to Needham and will locate there soon.

Daniel D. Dinsmore has resigned his position at P. B. Thompson’s drug store and will enter a drugstore in Madison, Me. Mr. Dinsmore has been in Mr. Thompson’s employ some five or six years and has made many warm friends in town, who will wish him success in his new field. He will leave Norwood in about two weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank S. Ellis returned last Sunday from West Southport. In spite of a two weeks’ rest Mr. Ellis says he did not feel his usual ambition when going to work last Monday morning.

Mrs. Grace Powers of New York, who has been visiting her father, W. H. Pond, and taking in the beach resorts, returned home Tuesday afternoon.

The Norwood band will play in Walpole this evening.

Mrs. Arthur L. Ide has been at Lake Aicher, Wrentham, a few days this week.

Mrs. F. M. Douglass and son are visiting Onset Bay.

E. E. Fisher, wife and daughter are sojourning at Onset.

John Lee is building a house on Hoyle Street. John Mutch will do the stone work. F. M. Douglass is builder.

Norwood horses are beginning to show signs of epizootic, though the epidemic has not as yet set in so violently as in some other towns.

The decrease in the usual summer emigration to Southport is a subject of general remark.

Fred L. Fisher has broken ground for the foundation of the new site for the Hartshorn building.

Allen Hinds has left the employ of E J. Shattuck and will take a position in Milton.

Rev. and Mrs. J. L. Seaton arc at North Truro for a couple of weeks.

Officer M. D. Creed is on duty again.

Tbe work of grading and otherwise improving the M. E. church lot has begun. J. E. Plummer has the contract.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Morrill, E. J. Shattuck and family, Mrs. H. E. Plimpton and daughters, and Mr. Leon Morrill, with Frank Morrill and family of New York, constitute a family party now located in the woods of Maine for hunting, fishing and recreation. They will be absent several weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Smith left this week for Saratoga. Springs, where they will spend the month of August.

Use Crooket’s Koff-Knots for coughs.

Mrs. George E. Sanborn returned last Saturday from her outing at Cottage City.

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. E. Hall leave town next week for a visit to Maine.

The new district deputy, Q. E. Rankin, will pay an official visit to Norwood Lodge, A. O. IT. W., this evening. Visitors from Mansfield aud Sharon are also expected.

Dr. Ross Vroom left here Wednesday | evening for a visit to his old home in Nova Scotia.

W. J Sullivan left Thursday morning for a trolley ride to Fitchburg and his old home in Templeton. He will be absent for several days.

A very good and thorough job of blasting has been done on Nichols Street.

Ur. and Mrs. Milton L. Rock are the happy parents of a baby girl, born Wednesday morning, July 31, and weighing nine and a half pounds.

Miss Edna McElhinney and her cousin, Miss Isabel Nichols, visited friends in Foxboro the first few days of the week.

Miss Elizabeth McDermott, Miss Mary Costello and Patrick Costello have gone to Onset Bay for a two weeks’ visit.

Webster people are trying to get the name of the big lake with the long title changed to something else. They have considerable objection to saying Lake Chaigoggagogguian— Well, excuse us. Let the Webster people do the spelling.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Andrews, Miss Mabel Andrews and Mrs. Olive Frizell visited friends in Dorchester Sunday last.

Dr. Baston left here Wednesday to join his family at Lake What-you-may-call-it at Webster.

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis A. Arey (nee Thompson) returned this week from their wedding trip to New York City, up the Hudson, the Pan-American and Owl’s Head, Me.
E. J. Shattuck came up this week from the woods of Maine, leaving his family with the party there in camp.

Miss Harriet E. Davenport leaves next Monday for a two weeks’ outing.

Mrs. G. R. Ilucstis goes to Lubec, Me., to spend the month of August, during which time her millinery parlors will be closed, opening again about the first of September.

Henry Ide has removed to the Eugene Sullivan house on Walpole Street.

Albert Ware returned Wednesday from a vacation trip to Maine.

Dr, J. P. Donovan will open an office in the house opposite St. Catherine’s rectory.

Senator F. A. Fales and family leave today for Randolph, Vt. Mrs. Fales and Miss Train will remain there for several weeks.

Frank Nash Boyden is expected homo from New York for a few days next week.

The coaching parade committee of the Walpole Labor Day field day would be glad to have all Norwood people who wish to participate either in the coaching parade or the turnout of antiques and horribles, communicate with them as soon as possible.

E. M. Sullivan and family leave next Monday for two weeks visit to Western Massachusetts points.

J. W. Conger returned yesterday from a month’s trip to Colorado. lie found the weather excessively hot.

Mrs. A. T. Harriott and her sister, Miss Maud Boyden, will start next week for a two weeks stay at Damariscotta and Newcastle, Me.

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Van Buskiik left in the middle of the week on their annual trip to Southport.

Samuel Swett and family returned Monday from a week’s vacation, spent in Whitman, Bridgewater, Halifax and neighboring places.

Fred Kilev has returned from a two weeks visit to Connecticut.

Fred L Fisher and family left yesterday for North Scituate Beach.

Edward Clark, lately employed at the car shops, was badly beaten by foui‘ men in a row which disturbed the quiet and eminently respectable inhabitants of Christian Hill last Wednesday evening. His injuries do not appear to be quite as serious as at first reported. His assailants escaped before the police arrived.

John Lyons and family have returned from a visit to Hough’s Neck.

Mr. and Mrs. Jeremiah Donovan left Thursday for a visit of several weeks to Onset Bay.

J. A. Jardine was prevented by sudden Illness from starting on his trip to Cape Breton Island this week, and may not go until next Tuesday.

Charles E. Pond is ill and confined to the house at the present writing.

(Originally published in the Norwood Advertiser and Review)