From the Wednesday November 15, 1972 Potsdam Courier & Freeman under "A Century Ago" column:

 

The first volume of the "Norwood News" provides these interesting items which gives us a look into the earlier days of our village:

 Dec. 24, 1878: The post office will be open Christmas Day from 10:30 a.m. until 2.

 Mrs. Catherine McCormick, mother of Patrick McCormick of this village, the well-known watchman at the R.W. & O.R.R. engine house, recently celebrated her 87th birthday. She reads the finest print and sews the finest clothes without the use of glasses. The old lady enjoys the best of health and looks as though she would outlive many not half her age.

 Gold is at par, trade dollars are at par, Canadian money is at discount.

 Diphtheria is a prevailing disease in this section and quite a number of cases have proved fatal.

 Martin & Loveless commenced the manufacture of butter tubs yesterday in their new building.

 The flouring mill of Hiram Rodee has started up after being idle for about ten weeks while remodeling. They will turn out over 100 barrels of flour per day.

 We understand that the reason the R.W. & O. was snowed up so long is because they refuse to pay enough men $1 a day to shovel snow. Sam Sloan will surely go where they don't shovel snow. We are informed that Sam Sloan telegraphed to Van Horne to pay men 60 cents a day for shoveling snow on the Roame road and if he couldn't get them for that to stop all trains until the month of March.-Watertown Miscellany.

 Dec. 31, 1878: Last Tuesday afternoon at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. G. Earl, aged 72 was married to Miss Streeter, aged 22. The happy pair passed through this place on their wedding trip.

 Married-Call-Clark at the residence of the bride's father Wednesday, Dec. 25, 1878 Mr. G.M. Call to Mattie G. Clark, both of Norwood.

 Died-Lang-in this village Dec. 26, 1878 of diphtheria, Daddie, youngest child of Hon. K.C. Lang of Brasher Falls, aged 4 years and 3 months.

 Bowen-this village Dec. 30, 1878, Minnie E., only daughter of G.C. and Helen M. Bowen, aged 20 years and 13 days.

 Chase-at Norwood Dec. 31, 1878 of heart disease, Rev. Moses Chase in the 83rd year of his age. Funeral services will be at the residence of his son-in-law, S.W. Davis.

 Earnest Davis is sick with diphtheria.

 The New York express and mail has come through on time via the O. & L.C., since the great snow storm. Norwood has two railroads and if the R.W. & O. railroad was snowed up winter we would have the express and mail from New York all the time.

 The first hubs were made in the new hub factory on Monday. The new building which was just finished is 68X90 feet two and three stories high, and is a fine building for manufacturing purposes as we have in the county and is a credit to our village. The entire building is heated by steam and has a 25 horsepower engine with a 60 horsepower boiler in the fireproof engine room. It also contains a rotary fire pump. The new building is built on the site of the old one which was destroyed by fire on the 17th of last May and was a total loss to H.S. & O.E. Martin of over $20,000 without insurance.