100 YEARS AGO – 1908

The young burglars that have been operating in Chester for some time have been taken into custody by the police. The capture of several young men is important as the city has been at the mercy of the thieves. Sgt. Cole and Officers Sill, Glennan and McDonnell made a raid upon a small hut built of railroad ties along the Reading Railroad tracks near the Fayette Works and found a large quantity of booty taken from a number of Chester businesses. Three burglars were held for county court.Alexander Sullivan, a well-known man who has been the caretaker at the Providence Avenue Meeting House, has moved from the dwelling next to the meeting house to a house near the Springfield Water Works.
Isaac B. Worell, who has been spending the winter in Philadelphia where he is employed, has come out to his country home in Lima, Middletown, for the summer.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

Dr. Leon Gottschalk, who has worked for the past 27 years as a physician at the U.S. Quarantine Station at Marcus Hook, died at the age of 56.Carl Warfel, principal of the Folcroft School suffered an injury to his eye when a he dropped a bottle of milk and flying glass cut his eye.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

An unidentified auxiliary policeman from Ridley Park who allegedly stopped and verbally abused a citizen while off duty has resigned at the request of borough officials. Burgess George E. Burke said the auxiliary officer allegedly had been drinking and used loud bad language with a motorist he had stopped.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

John LaRosa of Thornbury, director of the Audio Visual Communications, demonstrated to Prison Warden Tom Rapone equipment that allows the county to become the first in the state to be able to arraign suspects in prison. The equipment enables a video link between the prison in Cheyney with the county courthouseThe Senior Citizens of Brookhaven are having a dinner, family style, at the Brookhaven Baptist Church on Edwards Drive.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Parents Without Partners, Delco Chapter 352 elected Al Geary as its president and Sue Barber as vice president. PWP sponsors a dance every Thursday night at the Springfield Country Club on Sproul Road.

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