This Day in Norwood History-Talk Of The Town-November 3, 1905

These news items were the talk of the town on

The Norwood Athletic Club football •team will line up against the Fort Strong team at Prospect Park tomorrow afternoon.

The Young Women’s Sodality held a meeting at St. Catherine’s church last Monday evening.

A retreat for the women of the palish will open next Sunday morning at St. Catherine’s church.

The Married Woman’s Sodality will receive Holy Communion in a body at St. Catherine’s church next Sunday morning.

The usual services were bold at St. •Catherine’s church this morning, today being the first Friday of the month.

Miss Mary Dray of Readville has returned to work at the Norwood Press.

Miss May Wells has returned to work at the Norwood Press.

Robert McLeod is taking a short vacation to New York and Baltimore.

Mrs. Ernest W. Ellis has been confined to her house by sickness this week.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Daboil have been enjoying a trip to New York this week.

Miss Nellie Dexter is enjoying a trip south for ten days.

Miss Florence Beal of Dorchester, is visiting Miss Helen Winslow of Washington Street.

The dancing class season opened in Norwood last Saturday; Mrs. Wardner having a children’s class In the afternoon and a class for adults in the evening in Conger Hall.

Several Norwood young people attended the annual reunion and dance of the Canton High School alumni in Memorial Hall, Canton, last week.

Mr. George W. Perkins and family of Providence, R. I., have taken residence on Linden Avenue,

Oliver B. Small will soon leave his residence on Vernon Street and occupy one on Philbrook Avenue.

Miss E. M. Elthich of Pleasant Street, is very ill at the present writing.

Rev. J .F. Knotts former pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of this town is the officiating pastor of a flourishing church in Upton.

Postmaster F. A. Kales and Herbert P. Everett returned last Saturday, from a hunting trip in Afaine. They brought home two deer and sixteen partridges.

The monthly meeting of the Norwood Co-operative Bank will be held in police headquarters next Tuesday.

Mrs. Susie Bulger of Railroad Avenue, has returned from a month’s vacation which she spent visiting relatives in New Hampshire.

George K. Bird Post G.A.R. will hold a whist party and social in G.A.R. hall next Tuesday evening. During the evening, the election returns will be announced.

Lewis Gilman, formerly employed at Winslows’ tannery, has removed to Boston.

Frank Allen is about to construct a new bouse on Fisher street.

Ralph Congdon, a former resident of Norwood is one of the “soldiers” in “As Ye Sow” at the Majestic.

J. Bernard Rhoades has accepted a position at the Readville car shop.

Nathan Stetson, of the U. S. Navy, is visiting his father, at his home on Howard street.

Charles Rich, Henry Stone, and Charles Stewart, attended the Harvard-Brown game last Saturday.

Hiram Cole has returned from New York City.

Ernest Davenport visited friends in South Boston last Sunday.

Alfred Hartshorn of Cambridge, was in town the first of the week.

Miss Edith Moore has returned from a visit to friends in Connecticut.

Ground lias been broken for a new house on Fisher Street to be built for F. G. Allen.

A house has been staked out on Howard Street between the houses of Warren Bird and William Gay. Work is to be started at once.

Ruby Gardner of Walpole is visiting friends in Norwood this week.

The regular church meeting of the Universalist church is to be held this evening.

Edward Albee returned Sunday from a visit to friends in Charlemont, Vt.

George S. Bryant, of this town, was on the elevated train that crashed into the one ahead of it at the Park Street Subway last Saturday. He says that the reports in the papers greatly exaggerate the accident and that while all were bully shaken up, the majority kept their seats and there was no general panic such as some of the Boston papers “trumped up.”

Mary McGuire and Gertrude Sllne of East Walpole have been the guests of Eleanor Shine the past week.

Next to the Harvard and Yale game the Harvard Carlisle game will be the hardest fought struggle in Cambridge this year. A large number of local gridiron followers as well as a number of ladies are planning to take the game in tomorrow.

Oliver Foss left Saturday for a «bort hunting trip,taking his renowned hunter “Sice” with him.

Harold Wheeler’s “Independents”, a light but strong local football club have a game scheduled with the Canton “O.P. II.” team for tomorrow.

G.B. Brown, editor of “The Freak,” the little magazine on the reading table at the library, was in town Saturday, stopping at tho house of Joseph Gould.

The first bowling match of the “Norwood bowling league” will be rolled next Tuesday evening in Ellis’ alleys, between the “Has Beens” and the Cri-terion teams. On Thursday evening the Waverly’s and the Crierion’s will roll.

Mr. and Mrs. William A. Anderson of Rock Hill Avenue entertained a number of their friends last Tuesday evening by giving a Hallowe’en party. The features of the evening were dancing and a musical program. Refreshments were served by the hostess.

Nahatan Tribe, I.O.R.M., will hold a cribbage tournament in G.A.R. ball next Thursday evening.

The regular monthly meeting of the Norwood Business Association and Board of Trade will be held in Odd Fellows Hall next Tuesday evening. Following the usual custom of the association, election returns will be received throughout the evening by means of a direct wire into the ball. Chosen Knights Commandery, No. 286, A. and I. O. Knights of Malta, will observe a Malta Night next Thursday evening, November 9, in Odd Fellows’ hall, at eight p.m. Addresses will be given by Grand Commander, Theo. H. Vidito; Maj. William M. Clarke, late of Gov. Bates’ staff, and Col. Charles L. Young.

Communion Service will be held as part of the morning worship at the Congregational Church Sunday morning. Last Sunday there was a large congregation present. A collection of $186 was received for the work of foreign missions. Inspection of Geo K. Bird Post will occur Thursday evening, Nov. 16. Commander Guild of Dedham Post will be inspecting officer. A light collation will be served after inspection. All comrades are urged to be present

Musical Services at the Cong’l church will be resumed a week from next Sunday. These services have been very popular in the past and no doubt will be well attended this year. A large chorus choir tinder direction of organist L. F. Brackett will assist the regular male quartette of the church.

Edward H. Albee has decided to resign his position at I. T. Snow’s grocery and, in about two weeks, will remove with his family to Galesbury, Illinois, where he has accepted a position in the grocery store of Benjamin C. Nead. Mr. Nead will be remembered here as the son of Rev. George W. Nead, formerly a clerk at Wm. Fisher’s and later with W. B. Hasting’s|and Co. Galesbury is a city of about 25,000 inhabitants and is about 100 miles from Chicago.

The work of building Lincoln Street was commenced last week.

Water pipes are being laid on Savin Avenue.

Harry Allen’s house on George Street is nearly finished. A. L. Goodwin was the contractor.

Hugo Adlerstam of Linden Street, who recently had an operation for an abscess on his neck at the Homeopathic hospital in Boston, has so far recovered to be able to return home.

Mrs. Edith Gilbert who has been stopping with friends in Maryland, has been visiting Washington this week.

Perhaps some people have wondered where Johnson Court is located, where the town voted Wednesday evening to extend the water mains. Johnsen Court runs easterly from Savin avenue between Chapel Street and the pond on the tract of land bought by M. G. Smith of the heirs of John M. Robbins.

At the present time this section is building up faster than any other part of Norwood. It is in close proximity to the proposed new schoolhouse on Chapel Street.

The Kate Bell Walton Company will give a concert in Village Hall for the benefit of Geo. K. Bird Post sometime during the last of November.

J. Sansone’s new block on Washington Street is finished and ready for tenants.

How are your boys fixed for winter clothes? The Norwood Clothing Co. has a full line of children’s clothing and is just now offering a special inducement to its customers. With every purchase of $5.00 or over in children’s clothing they will give a No. 51, Wright, and Ditson football, just the thing that every boy wants.

“The Jolly Little Japs,” was the subject of Rev. George Nead’s lecture last Tuesday evening at the town hall, Walpole. There was a good audience present and all who were there greatly enjoyed this exhibition and lecture. Rev. Mr. Nead is proving himself to be well-adapted to the platform as well as the pulpit.

Dr. F. H. Nutting has sold his estate on Washington Street to a a number of Norwood men who contemplate the erection. of a brick block on it. It is said that the doctor has bought a lot of Dr. F. M. Cragin, opposite the High school bouse on which to build a new house.

Miss Katie Hunt had a Hallowe’en party Tuesday night. About 15 young people were present.

Work has been commenced on the cellar of Mahlon Perry’s new house on Walpole Street.

(Originally published in the Norwood Advertiser and Review)