These news items were the talk of the town on June 19, 1903
George A. O'Brien of Walnut Avenue is ill and confined to the house at the present writing.
Miss Mann, forelady at J. S. Cushing & Co.'s, has returned from her annual vacation.
Mrs. Robert Faulkner is seriously ill at her home on Pleasant Street, having recently undergone an operation for abscess on the brain.
Miss May E. Boyden of Washington Street started Thursday for Newcastle, Me., where she intends to remain during the summer.
Mrs. Charles B. Dexter has gone to her summer home at Southport, Me.
Robert R. Vickery, a chief warrant officer in the U. S. Navy, is spending a few days in Norwood with his mother. Mr. Vickery is now stationed at the Fore River Ship and Engine Co.'s works at Quincy as a government inspector of machinery on the new warships now being built by that company.
Mr. and Mrs. A. T. Harriott took an automobile ride to Newport, R. I., via -Taunton and Fall River, the first of the week, also taking the twelve-mile ocean drive. They stopped for dinner at Tiverton. The total distance traveled was 136 miles. It was accomplished in ten hours.
Miss Sadie Brigham, who has been visiting friends here, has returned to her home in Boddington, Conn.
D. H. C. R. Finn of Dorchester visited St. Catherine's court, M. C. O. Monday evening, A fine literary and musical entertainment was furnished by the good of the order committee. Deputy Finn gave an address. Refreshments were served.
Charles M. Thompson of the Advertiser was the winner of a Guest Book folio for correct guessing in one of the Tabard Inn contests lately.
Frederick Prescott has removed from Hill Street to Islington.
The J. S. Cushing baseball club is in the field with a strong team and would like to arrange games with uniform clubs and trades teams. Edward F. McKenna, Norwood, is manager of the club.
President Halloran of the Norwood Business Association and Hon. F. A. Fales of the association committee on permanent home desire to have us call special attention to the new room or headquarters of the association in the Bigelow block. This room is very comfortably fitted up, and we understand from the gentlemen named that it is the intention to have it open for the present every weekday evening. The committee expects in time to have the room filled with suitable portraits and pictures and to have the legend "Norwood Business Association" appear on the door. The room will prove a great convenience for the various committees on the Old Home Week celebration and it is just such a room as the association 1ms long needed.
James Balfour, Jr., has gone on a couple of weeks vacation to the Berkshire Hills.
Mrs. Ephraim Chamberlain is ill and confined to the house at her home on couple of weeks vacation to the Berkshire Hills.
Mrs. Ephraim Chamberlain is ill and confined to the house at her home on Granite street.
John Vincent has resigned his position at the Norwood Press and gone to New York to take a position in the schools there.
William Connor, son of Peter Connor of Railroad Avenue, is suffering from blood poisoning.
The law office of C. M. Callahan, Conger building, will be closed until Saturday, June 27.
Clarence Douglass has returned from a visit to Worcester, Palmer and other places in the western part of the state.
The engagement of Miss Robina Mutch of Norwood and James Ramsey of New York is announced.
The death of Harry Olson at the home of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. H. Olson, at Northwood, N. H., is announced. The cause of death was paralysis. Deceased formerly resided in Norwood and engaged in the tailoring and repairing business here. Two of his sisters still reside here.
Miss Helen M. Talbot, daughter of the late George B. Talbot, died at the Homeopathic Hospital, Boston, on Tuesday last. She was a native of South Dedham, now Norwood, and had spent most of her life here. She was a woman of fine character and had cared for lier aged father in his declining years. A faithful daughter and sister and one who lived a life of unaffected goodness and loyalty, she was called on in the last few years of her .life to undergo great physical suffering, which she bore calmly and heroically. Her homo for the past year has been with her sister, Mrs. Augusta G. Sanborn. Funeral services were hold at 1.30 o'clock this afternoon at her late home, and were conducted by Rev. W. B. Eddy. Interment was at Highland cemetery.
The shavers of Winslow Bros. & Smith Co.'s tannery enjoyed their annual picnic and clambake at Oak Grove picnic grounds last Saturday. Some twenty persons participated. Bowling and other amusements were furnished. Caterer Lee had charge of the bake and served all the usual marine delicacies, including baked clams, chowder, baked lobster, baked fish. One who attended says the party luid been getting very hungry and were clamoring for clams, but when they got on the lee side of Lee's chowder all were happy. The chowder, in fact, passed away all too rapidly like a summer dream and brought tears of joy to the eyes of those who partook of fit.
The water used for baptism at the Congregational church last Sunday 1 was brought from the fords of the Jordan by Mr. F. O. Winslow.
Miss Nellie Horgan has left for Marblehead, where she will spend the summer.
The school board has decided to extend the scope of the commercial course and will make it a four years' course instead of a three years' one as at present.
Mrs. Dennis Duncan of Maple Street died at a Boston hospital yesterday. She had been a great sufferer in the closing weeks of her life and it was known for some time past that her recovery was doubtful. She leaves some five or six children and a widowed husband. The family has the sincere sympathy of all who know them.
The graduation exercises of the grammar school will take place next Monday evening in Village hall.
(Originally published in the Norwood Advertiser and Review)
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