100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Two burglars entered the residence of Frank Innis, assistant postmaster, on Lloyd Street, Chester, entrance having been made by prying open a back window. When Mr. Innis returned home he saw a light in a room on the second floor and yelled “Police.” The men made a dash from the house and managed to escape. No property was reported missing.
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chris Nacrelli of Third and Market streets, Marcus Hook, was left by her mother in an upstairs room at her house for a few minutes. When the parent returned she was horrified to see the child munching a rat biscuit that was in the room. Knowing the biscuit was full of poison, Mrs. Nacrelli notified her husband and with the girl in his arms he hastened to Pechmann’s drug store on horseback in search of medical assistance. Finding no doctor handy, he rode to the quarantine station where a stomach pump was used and the life of the child was saved.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

That home making in all its branches is considered of great importance by the women of Chester and nearby areas was shown again as the second of The Chester Times Cooking and Home Making School got under way. There was a capacity audience for the school at the Masonic Temple in Chester. Mrs. Katherine Delayney conducted the school.
Mrs. Ruth L. Bennett, founder of the Ruth L. Bennett Improvement Association in Chester, is ill at her home at Second and Reaney streets. She fractured two ribs when she fell at her home.

50 YEARS AGO – 1948

The soon-to-retire Schools Supt. Faber E. Stengle of Collingdale was arrested at a luxury hotel in St. Petersburg, Fla. He is accused of embezzlement of school funds, forgery, fraudulent conversion and cheating by false pretensesGail Beam, 18, of 332 Summit Road Springfield, will spend the summer in Morden, England, as a guest of English families. The trip to promote better international understanding is being sponsored by the Rotary Club.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

U.S. Rep. Bob Edgar (D-Marple) unveiled an “environmental works bill” aimed at putting nearly 300,000 jobless people to work rehabilitating parks, weatherproofing homes and repairing railroad tracks. Joe Grant has been installed as the new president and Joseph Griffin as chief of the Brookhaven Fire Co. David Schlott was named vice president.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Newtown Township Supervisors adopted a “pooper scooper” law. Supervisor Chairman Dick Pound said many complaints have been received about the unpleasant problem.

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