100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Michael Sullivan of Haverford Township, a Pennsylvania Railroad employee, was attacked as he was escorting two young women to the railway station at Wayne. Sullivan was paying marked attention to one of the young women in attendance at a dance so two young men attacked him with beer bottles. The girls tried to defend their escort and scared them off into the woods. Two surgeons dressed Sullivan’s wounds and he was taken home.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

A large mid-year class of Chester High School students was graduated last evening in the auditorium of the Smedley Junior High School, 17th and Upland streets. Eighty-four students received diplomas. Class officers are Norman Forrest, president; Emily Elzey, vice president; Mary Minnick, secretary; and Mary Malloy, treasurer.
Viscose Fire Co., Marcus Hook, has ruled that loitering around the firehouse is prohibited. Officers said that a number of young people in the community have been using the firehouse to idle away their spare time so the rule has been adopted.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

A 19-year-old Drexel Hill youth who urged county Judge John V. Diggins to “put me behind bars because I can’t stay out of trouble” apparently didn’t like his new home at Broadmeadows Prison. He escaped and the youth from Garrett Road is still on the loose.
Brownie Troop 257 in Springfield celebrated its first anniversary at the Church of Christ, undenominational.
In recognition of his 25 years as rector of St. Robert’s Catholic Church, Chester, Rev. James V. Mulhearn was given a new car by members of his parish.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

Woolco Department Store, with stores in Claymont and the MacDade Mall, Ridley Township, has announced a going-out-of-business sale and items are offered at 70 percent off. That’s the minimum discount.
Gerald Davis has been elected president of the Bethel Fire Co. Other officers are Craig Small, vice president; Jesse Cheyney, secretary; James Moore, financial secretary; Douglas Knierim, treasurer; and George Smith, Albert Pyle, Thomas McDaniels and Reese Thomas, trustees.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Petty Officer 3rd Class Anthony DeVitis, son of Anthony and Stephanie DeVitis of Boothwyn, Upper Chichester, is on the aircraft carrier USS George Washington for a six-month deployment. The carrier is headed to the Middle East region.

— LEN CASTERLINE

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