Thursday, March 27, 2008

Other Times --- March 27

100 YEARS AGO – 1908
The Lyric, a well-fitted and commodious amusement house, opened on Market Street above Third Street, Chester. In addition to the moving pictures that are featured daily, there will be musicals and vaudeville performances on the stage.Good Will Fire Co. in Chester, that is now in flourishing condition, has just received an additional 300 feet of hose for service on its chemical wagon. It is of the cotton variety, lined with rubber of the Paragon brand -- the best, it is said, in the country. This company now has more hose than any other Chester company, it is believed.
Chester Traction Co. inaugurates a half-hour schedule on Saturdays and Sundays. Cars will leave Seventh and Welsh streets, Chester, at 35 and 45 minutes after the hour. This will be in vogue until further notice.
75 YEARS AGO – 1933
The “Back To the Farm’’ cure for economic depression troubles will be used by the Delaware County Emergency Relief Board in cooperation with the state aid plan. R. H. Diament, well known in local relief work, has been named chairman of the county project that promotes Community Thrift Gardens. There will about 3,000 back yard gardens and seeds, plants and fertilizer will be provided. This back-to-the-land movement will be able to provide many families with food products during the remainder of the depression, it is said.
50 YEARS AGO – 1958
James Wolf, 13, and his sister Peggy, 9, won the top awards in the “best reader’’ contest at Helen Kate Furness Library in Wallingford. They are the children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry J. Wolf of 219 Martroy Lane.Mrs. William Smith of 116 Bridge Road, Ridley Park, and her father, Joseph F. Rehrman of 26 W. Eighth St., Chester, marked their birthday anniversaries at a family dinner party at the Rehrman home.
H. Merle Mulloy of Winding Lane, Nether Providence, has been elected vice president and general counsel of the Reading Railroad.
25 YEARS AGO – 1983
Professor Kenneth Holt of Penn State’s Delaware County campus is displaying color photos of Civil War battlefields at Penn Wood East School in Yeadon. The spring Aerobic Dance Program begins today at the Watkins Avenue Multi-Purpose Activity Center in Upper Darby. The session lasts for 10 weeks.
10 YEARS AGO – 1998
Barnstormers Theater in Ridley Park is having a workshop for children on Saturdays at the theater. The workshop is being led by Director Mary Andrews and is designed for children with limited stage experience.
-- LEN CASTERLINE
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