100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Far more exciting than the play at the Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, was a fistfight in the lobby of the show house between an angry wife and the woman her husband had taken to the matinee. The woman from Lansdowne and the other woman from Philadelphia battled it out for a few minutes before other theatergoers intervened. The husband asked his wife “not to get excited.’’ He was just having a friendly meeting with the other woman, he said. The wife did not see it that way and after the fight she returned to her Lansdowne home.
Miss Grace Bitner, the nurse connected with the State Dispensary for the Prevention and Cure of Tuberculosis, 516 Market St., Chester, said many people who apply for aid are in very poor circumstances. “Some people are kept away from the dispensary because they do not have sufficient clothing to wear on these cold days’’ she said.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

Nearly 200 prize chickens were killed in a spectacular fire that destroyed a double-tier scientific poultry building on the Hillside Poultry Farm, 26th Street and Madison Street, Chester.
Andrew M. Eastwick of Providence Road, Wallingford, who with Mrs. Eastwick, is spending the winter at their home, “Vista del Aqua,’’ Rockledge, Fla., is suffering from a broken hip, the result of a fall.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

Marjorie Feeser, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Feeser, 101 E. Chelton Road, Parkside, has been named office manager of The Grove City College student newspaper. She had been a news writer and feature editor.
Two seamen, charged with disorderly conduct, forfeited $27 bail each when they failed to appear at a hearing before Magistrate Anthony Smith in Chester. Two 14-year-old girls charged that the seamen followed them from 7th and Lloyd streets, Chester, to Townsend Street and tried to date them.
Aston Township Police Chief Richard Tipton said the entire township police force plus the Aston Auxiliary Police will be on duty tonight during the Mothers’ March of Dimes Drive in the township.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

The Toby Farms Athletic Association is having its annual Sports Awards Banquet at the Milmont Fire Hall in Ridley Township. Guest speaker is Widener College Coach Bill Manlove.
Mr. and Mrs. John Kenney of Brookhaven celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary. Mr. Kenney is retired from the Yorkshire Mills in Aston and the couple has lived in Brookhaven for 54 years.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

The Norwood American Legion Post 507 had a benefit for the Klara family that lost their Norwood home in a devastating fire last month. Mr. and Mrs. Klara and five of their children are staying with relatives until the home can be rebuilt.

— LEN CASTERLINE

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