100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Four shelves of Bibles were used as fuel by a gang of chicken thieves to keep themselves warm after they had broken into the Ebenezer AME Church at Hometown, near Glenolden, to pluck and dress the stolen fowls that had been secured from nearby hen houses.
There was a gala day of skating in Upland as the skaters filled the ice on Chester Creek. Harry W. Hamilton, the Kerlin Street tobacconist, who was among the merrymakers, proved himself the champion skater of the bunch and he gave several fine exhibits of fancywork on the skates.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

The Edgmont Beef Co. in Chester has a spaghetti dinner special. It is offering two pounds of spaghetti, a can of tomato paste and a quarter pound of grated cheese, all for 33 cents.
The rifle team representing Co. C, 111th Infantry Pennsylvania National Guard, defeated a team representing Co. B at a match in the basement of the armory on Eighth Street, Chester. Corporal William Atkins was high scorer.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

Bruce H. White, aviation electrician’s mate third class, brother of Maurice E. White of Elwyn, is serving at Whiting Field Naval Auxiliary Air Station in Milton, Fla.
Mary Rively of North Governor Printz Boulevard, Essington, was given a surprise party in honor of her 80th birthday anniversary at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Adelaide James, in Lester.
Customers at the A&P Market in the Village Green Shopping Center, Aston, continued to shop while firemen fought a blaze in the a rear of the store. Fred Seiwell, manager of the supermarket, said the fire was in a pile of empty cartons in an employees’ washroom. Firemen were on the scene for about 30 minutes.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

Rutledge Borough Council met its new police chief. He is Morton Chief George Souder. Morton Police patrol in Rutledge. Souder is the former chief in Chester Township.
Yeadon resident Frances E. Davis received the Ella P. Webb Leadership Award of the Southwest Belmont YWCA. Ms. Davis, of Alfred Avenue, is director of Community Affairs and Government Relations at Drexel University in Philadelphia.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Clifford and Alice Wagner of Folcroft celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. They have five children. Clifford is retired from Harcast of Chester where he worked for 33 years.

— LEN CASTERLINE
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