Norwood In 1929

From the March 13, 1929 Potsdam Courier & Freeman:

 

The public service commission has received a petition from the Norwood Electric Light and Power company to grant it permission to transfer its franchises, works and system into the St. Lawrence County Utilities Inc.

 

The Norwood company now holds franchises for the distribution of electricity in the town of Norfolk and the village of Norwood, St. Lawrence county.

 

Another petition filed along with this one requests authority to transfer the hydroelectric plant of the Norwood concern, at Yaleville, together with certain land and water rights owned by it, to the St. Lawrence Valley Power corporation thus splitting up the present possessions of the Norwood concern.

 

Some time ago, the local Utilities purchased the Norwood plant then controlled by Dr. S. P. Phelps. The present contemplated action, it is understood, is to put the property on the same administrative basis as the other utility holdings. In the other properties, the Utilities is the retail concern and the Valley Power company the operator of the hydroelectric sources of supply and the whole sale distributor.

 

 

(From the Looking backward column, The North, which appeared in the Sunday, December 5, 2004 edition of Watertown Daily Times, page G3).

 

75 YEARS AGO

 

Dec. 5, 1929: Norwood Inn, which has been operated by local men for the past year, has been sold to Edward S. Furedy of New York City. The hotel was built in 1926 to replace the famous old Whitney House and is modern in every way. In the future, Norwood Inn is to be known as Norwood Hotel.

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