100 YEARS AGO – 1908

The carriage of Dr. and Mrs. Frank J. Evans of Chester collapsed while they were en route to a cemetery. Neither was hurt. The buggy’s rear axle had broken.Twenty-eight members of the Harvard University track squad are making the Idlewild in Upper Providence their headquarters while they compete in the Penn Relays in Philadelphia.Elizabeth Wood, principal of the Sandy Bank Public School in Upper Providence, is spending the holiday weekend in Baltimore.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

Howard Carroll, proprietor of a lunch wagon at Ninth and Sproul streets, Chester, doesn’t care if he ever gets “big money” customers anymore. He was duped for $5 by a couple of slickers. Howard was alone when a customer walked in and ordered a cup of coffee and was given a $10 bill. While the customer was sipping his coffee another man walked in and asked for a cup of coffee tendering $5 bill in payment. The first customer had taken Carroll’s small change so Carroll said to the second man he had to get change. As he reached the door, the first customer said to the second “I can change that for you” Carroll gave him the $5 bill in exchange for five ones. “Give me back my $10 bill and I’ll give you this $5 so you will have $10 in change. It was agreeable to Carroll who saw his mistake after the two flim-flam artists departed.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

Charles Griffith has been selected editor-in-chief of The Welcome, the student newspaper at Chester High School. He will be assisted by Leanne Goldstein. Mrs. Edna Wiggins is faculty adviser for the newspaper.August T. Groover, a graduate of St. James High School, Chester, is to graduate next month from Villanova University with a law degree. He lives at 3324 W. 3rd St., Chester, and graduated from St. Joseph’s College.The annual Chester YMCA junior life saving course starts next week under the direction of William Dougherty and Jack Preston.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

There’s still room for kids in the Summer Spree Art Camp for children that is offered by the Community Arts Center of Wallingford. Courses are offered in painting, drawing, pottery, dance and drumsRichard J. and Madeline T. Souden of Lansdowne celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with a dinner in the their honor at the Log Cabin Inn in Middletown.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

A Morton woman who allegedly used her mother’s name when arrested for shoplifting faces additional charges. The woman was arrested at the Rite Aid store on Baltimore Pike, Clifton Heights, walking out with a bottle of men’s cologne.

— LEN CASTERLINE

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