. Suburban homes along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R. R . ve—at least a dozen in process of had at first in population but a few hundred. To-day they haveas many thousand. Pastures and corn-fields have been transformedinto lawns and pleasant building lots. Cement sidewalks will takethe place this summer of mud walks. The pride of the village is FloralAvenue, one hundred and twenty feet wide throughout its length of a 21 mile, one-half of which is paved with asphalt. There are seven railroadstations within the corporate limits of the village, and two post-off
. Suburban homes along the line of the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern R. R . ve—at least a dozen in process of had at first in population but a few hundred. To-day they haveas many thousand. Pastures and corn-fields have been transformedinto lawns and pleasant building lots. Cement sidewalks will takethe place this summer of mud walks. The pride of the village is FloralAvenue, one hundred and twenty feet wide throughout its length of a 21 mile, one-half of which is paved with asphalt. There are seven railroadstations within the corporate limits of the village, and two Bo-ard of Council is now hard at work on a system of seweragefor the village. The Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians, Berean Bap-tists, German Lutherans and Catholics all have stated places of wor-ship. The Presbyterians have recently occupied their new church onFloral Avenue. It is a beautiful edifice of Gothic design, is hand-somely furnished, lighted with gas, equipped with a furnace, and costabout $8,000. The Methodist Church, very pretty and tasteful, is. Depot—East Norwood,situated on Harris Avenue, and cost $7,000. The Catholics have afine Church building, and maintain also a parochial school. Thepublic school building is on the Montgomery Pike. It is a gradedschool, and now has a High School Department, About four an addition was made to the building, at a cost of $10,000. Theschool board has lately bought property in the west and south portionsof the village whereon to erect primary buildings. The corps of teach-ers is an excellent one, and the schools hold a high place among thoseof the county. Its town hall is not a source of any special pride. Itwas built while Norwood was yet young, and is already too old for the 22 wants of the enterprising community. It is hardly hkely to be longbefore it will be replaced by a new building better adapted to the pub-lic wants. The body of citizens is made up of those who spend theday in the city, each engag
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