Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Other Times --- Feb. 26

100 YEARS AGO – 1908
A wagon made its rounds in Chester picking up discarded clothes and shoes as well as household articles. “This is all right as far as the household articles are concerned,” said a well-known citizen of Chester. “But we have a chance right in Chester to dispose of castoff clothing and shoes. There are many families who need such articles and it would be a good idea to the people of Chester to distribute clothes and shoes through our own ‘Women’s Benevolent Society.’”
The Darby boys seem to have the bulge on the Chester boys as one of them, Henry Smithson, plunged into the Darby Dam and swam across the creek amidst floating ice and scrambled out on the other side blue in the face and nearly frozen. He declared to his companion that “the water was fine after you got out of your pains. Chester boys had better wait awhile before going swimming,” he said.
75 YEARS AGO – 1933
Erasers are quite the rage for “wiping off the slate” and the rubber variety for removing a mistake from a sheet of paper but to little Norman Marvel 7, they are obstacles. Norman was sitting in his classroom at the Thurlow School, Second and Thurlow streets, Chester, absorbing the fundamentals of his life as his teacher presented them. Norman got a little bored and began toying with an eraser of the soft rubber type. Somehow the eraser got lodged in Norman’s nostril. He was taken to Chester Hospital and the rubber was removed. The boy is at his home, 3107 W. Third St. Chester, and has made up his made that the less mistakes he makes in life the less use he will have for an eraser, therefore preventing a possible repetition of the mishap.
50 YEARS AGO – 1958
Two Brookhaven residents, Charles Palmer of 3440 Mount Vernon Ave. and Walter Yeager of 3405 Commerce Ave. have been accepted as members of the color corps and drill team of Cardinal Dougherty General Assembly Knights of Columbus. They will participate in the St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Philadelphia. Both are members of Our Lady of the Rosary Council, K of C, Green Ridge.
25 YEARS AGO – 1983
The 69th Street Merchants’ Association is having its second annual Easter Spring Fashion Show at the former Lit Brothers Building at 69th and Ludlow streets. Coordinator of the show Libby Haynes Hyman wants females to call her if they wish to model.
10 YEARS AGO – 1998
Jennifer Hudrick of Folcroft, Thomas D. Harner of Broomall and Charles R. Peterson of Havertown have been named to the dean’s list at Mansfield University, a state-sponsored university.

--- LEN CASTERLINE
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