Norwood Music Hall
The following news item appeared in the May 22, 1903 edition of the St. Lawrence Herald, Potsdam, under a Reminiscences 1889 by Josiah L. Brown:
April 18--Special town meeting to vote on a appropriation of $2,500 for a Music Hall at Norwood. 508 votes were polled of which 349 were for and 150 against the appropriation. The Irish farmers outside the village voted pretty solid against it, but the two villages voted for it. Not over one fourth of the voters in town were out.
(Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network @ news.nnyln.net).
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(From the Friday August 30, 1889 edition of the Malone Franklin Gazette).
P. M. Oliver, of Norwood, has secured the contract for building the new town hall in that village. It is to cost $4,820, and is to be 45 feet front and 80 feet long. The work is to be finished by the 1st of next January.
From the August 5, 1942 Potsdam Courier & Freeman:
Following a covered dish picnic held by members of Aircraft Observation Posts 68A and 68B at Norwood last Thursday, Sgt. Robert Donahue and Pfc. Lionel Fallow of the First Fighter Command from Syracuse headquarters addressed a large group of men and women at the Norwood Music Hall on the function and operation of the Aircraft Warning Service.
Observation Post 68A with forty members is located at West Stockholm. Harold Green is chief observer. Post 68B is located in the village of Norwood and has a personnel of one hundred. Murray Farmer is chief observer and Roscoe Bowhall, Arch Royce and Noble Powell are assistant chiefs. Both posts are under the supervision of the Norwood American Legion.
Due to the seriousness of the present situation all Aircraft Warning posts in the First Fighter Command area are on duty continuously round the clock.
From the April 17, 1946 Potsdam Courier & Freeman:
The three act operetta "Goldilock's Adventure" was presented last evening, in the Norwood Town Hall. Sixty-seven children took part from grades one to four. The work was under the supervision of the following teachers with Rita McGinnis as chairman, Irene Wilbur, Dorothy Long, Geraldine McLaughlin, Neal Caneen, Geraldine O'Brien, Bernice Dullea, Helen Parody and Marion McSweeney.
The cast includes: Goldilocks, Patricia Johnson; Her mother, Betty Wilson; her father, Ted Wright; Mother Bear, Joan Hughes; Father Bear, Charles Vinicor; Baby Bear, Darrell McLennan; Pan, Richard Clark.
Eight Violets: Vivian McNairn, Lynn Pettys, Virginia Conger, Jane Logan, Carol Munro, Janet Conger, Phyllis Pringle, Carol Morgan.
Eight Bluebells: Laura Wilber, Carol Roach, Barbara Goodrich, Katie Merrill, Helen Matson, Valerie Dailey, Lenore Monica, Rita Stanford.
Eight Daisies, Kay Watson, Pat McKenty, Nancy Purves, Inez Bond, Mary LaFleur, Mary Wilkins, Lucille Wood, Shirley Molnar.
Eight Playmates, Irene Dufore, Marjorie Hart, Jean McKenty, Ann Farrington, Jackie Boprey, Joan Morgan, Marilyn McNulty, Pat Gravelin.
Eight Light Bears, Jane Farrington, Pat Anable, Janet Gonyou, Marie Ramsey, Kenneth Spencer, Charles Robare, Bobby Wing, Bernard Lanning.
Eight Wood Nymphs, Eugene Ditullio, Wayne Phelps, Barrie Woodward, Dick L. Clark, Robert LaHair, Steve Royce, Charles Morgan, Donald Clark.
Eight Cubs, Donnie McLennan, Charles Purves, Jack Morgan, John Caneen, Ronnie Dufore, Nelson Newvine, Roger McNairn, Peter Molnar.
Four Neighbors, Vernon Hoover, Larry Gibson, Dick Boprey, Paul Paige.
(The Norwood Music Hall was torn down about 1957 to make way for the new municipal building).
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