1910--Early 1900's Norwood

(The following article appeared on the front page of the Potsdam Herald-Recorder on Friday, January 14, 1910)

 

An Italian, name unknown was arrested in Norwood Tuesday for passing counterfeit $2.00 bills. The Italian is said to reside in Massena and was a member of a gang of Italians all over the state who are passing counterfeit United States issue of $2.00 bills. The principal quarters of the gang are located at New York City and 16 were arrested in New York City alone Tuesday. It is stated that the counterfeit money is being made in Italy and smuggled over to this country in glass cans for passing.

The Italian had already passed off about $20.00 worth of the useless paper before he was detected. One local storekeeper, alone, has five of the $2 bills to remember this son of Italy. He was accompanied by a fellow countryman but the latter disappeared before he could be caught. U.S. Marshall Smith of Ogdensburg took charge of the prisoner and is scouting and tracing the near by towns for locating the other Italian.

 

From the Wednesday, October 26, 1910 Potsdam Courier & Freeman, under the J. L. Brown column "Happenings of a Week":

Thursday: Warm and partly cloudy. It looks like rain but my barometer does not indicate it. Charles J. Henderson is 87 years old. Recently he walked from Potsdam to Norfolk, a distance of nine miles. He says he could have made better time but he had to slow down to ten miles an hour when passing through Norwood. He says this speed limit is a great inconvenience when walking.

 

From the March 28, 1911 Canton Commercial Advertiser:

A very peculiar accident occurred at the residence of William Harrison in Norwood the other day. Mr. Harrison's daughter, Mrs. J. Harrison, of Hewittville, drove to Norwood for a few hours visit. Before leaving home she warmed a flag of Potsdam sandstone and placed it in the sleigh for a foot warmer. On arriving at Mr. Harrison's home she removed the stone from the sleigh and placing it in the oven of the cookstove and closing the door. The stone was twelve inches square and two inches thick. After the stone had been in the oven for a time it burst with a loud report, breaking the oven bottom into 13 pieces and blowing the oven door half way across the room. The stone broke into pieces not larger than a butternut. Just what caused the stone to burst with such violence has not been explained.

 

From the September 1, 1911 Potsdam Herald-Recorder:

The great scarcity of potatoes in this section as well as throughout Northern New York is causing much anxiety. So far as can be learned never before in the history of this section has there been so few potatoes raised, and the fact that the same condition exists over a wide section of the state is a sure indication that the tubers will be high in price during the ensuing year. It was generally believed that the recent rains would improve late potatoes sufficiently to make them a fair crop, but according to reliable information, there has been but little change in the situation with but few exceptions.-Norwood News.

 

From the February 2, 1914 Potsdam Courier & Freeman:

 

In moving its plant from Tupper Lake Junction to the plant of the Norwood Lumber Co., recently purchased, the Santa Clara Lumber Co. has just successfully completed a rather unusual undertaking, in moving a very heavy load across the ice on Racquette Pond.

The Santa Clara plant at the Junction was equipped with a large conveyor apparatus for handling the company's main product, namely woodpulp blocks in two foot lengths. The conveyor was carried on a steel structure, made up of some rather large trusses. In dismantling this for removal, a large section of the steel truss was taken down whole, the plan being to move it across the ice on Racquette Pond to the Norwood plant.

The truss section weighs fifty tons, and it was mounted on sleds to distribute this weight over as large an area as possible. When all was in readiness, six teams of horses were hitched to it and the trip across the pond successfully made during the cold snap of last week. The ice was about 16 inches thick, and by taking advantage of it the lumber company effected a considerable saving in cost of removal.

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