100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Officers of the Chester Rural Cemetery Co. have adopted a new rule regarding the building of foundations for headstones at graves. Hereafter the stone work must be the same depth as the grave. Some of the monument builders, who know their business, have been following this rule but all must do so now. A permit for each work also must be obtained from cemetery Superintendent Burton.
Benjamin Devlin, the manager of McClure’s bottling establishment in Chester, came near being a hero but instead found he was the victim of a practical joke. Ben saw a team going up Kerlin Street towards Fifth Street and was told that there was no one in the wagon. He ran almost to Fifth Street and found much to his surprise a driver in the vehicle. Ben was a little angry but when he realized it was a just a joke he passed around the cigars.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

Four youngsters, all of Morton, were arraigned before Magistrate Raymond Hood of Folsom and charged with disturbing the peace and disorderly conduct. Eugene Remente, the owner of a small store in Ridley Township, complained that the boys had been making a general nuisance of themselves around his place of business.
A Prospect Park man faced Magistrate Hood for overdoing St. Patrick’s Day. He was arrested by Ridley Township police, who found him lying on the front porch of a home on Chester Pike, Leiperville.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

John B. Hassler, USMC, who has been visiting his mother, Mrs. Anthony E. Hassler of 403 Lindsay St., Ridley Park, returns this week to Camp Lejeune, N.C., for advanced combat training.
Featured in a can-can dance routine at Nether Providence Follies at the high school auditorium were Lynne Green, Marilyn MacIndoe, Connie Morgan, Sue Seville, Beth Stegmaier, Dotty Essick, Anne Bridge and Carol Ann Nugent.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

William and Joyce Scott are founders and pastors of a new church in Chester, the New Life Christian Center, that meets at the Franklin Firehouse on Concord Avenue. The Scotts were both born and reared in Chester.Harry Roessner won his second Chess Chairman’s Cup in the annual tournament at the MacDade House in Holmes. He defeated four straight opponents.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Pvt. Brian Matuliewich, son of Edward C. Matuliewich, Jansen Ave., Essington, has been assigned to Fort Lewis, Wash., after having completed the U.S. Army’s One Station Training program.

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