100 YEARS AGO – 1908

County Sheriff McClure has opened a branch office in the White Front Store on Market Street, Chester, where he swore in deputies to help city police preserve order. A telephone has been placed in the building and Deputy Sheriff Al Howard and Constable Thad Shinkel are assisting the sheriff. The sheriff is offering $3 a day to good men who will assist in preserving order in Chester but he wants reliable men who are not afraid of their shadows and who will fight if necessary to preserve the peace. Because of the Chester Transit Co. strike there has been disorder recently.
Prof. C. M. Snyder was elected principal of Norwood Schools, succeeding Prof. Edgar J. Williams who resigned.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

In her will Mrs. Anna M. Williams of 1302 W. Ninth St., Chester, left her estate to two sons, Harry C. and Isaac B. Williams Jr. The estate is estimated at $7,000, all in real estate.A woman from Front and Reaney streets, Chester, became involved in a quarrel with her next door neighbors and not liking what was said to her she procured a gun. She blasted away at the two men. Luckily the gun was loaded with blanks and no damage was done. The principals were held for Chester police court.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

Army Pvt. James R. Marshall Jr., 22, husband of Donna M. Marshall, 141 Pennsylvania Ave., Garden City, and son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Marshall of Brookhaven has been assigned to engineering school at Fort Polk, La.
Participants in The Teen Age Fashion Magazine show at Sharon Hill High School were Ruth Moore, Elizabeth Vile, Sandy Briscoe and Elizabeth Steinmetz. The models designed and made the clothes they modeled.The Polio Friendship Club is having a grocery party at the auditorium of the Eagles Home, 7th and Deshong streets, Chester. Mrs. Irene Baker Hampton said proceeds would be used to purchase a wheelchair for an eight-year-old Upland polio victim.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

Three municipal officers were admitted as members of Delaware County Lodge 27, Fraternal Order of Police. Brookhaven Patrolman Rick Fuller, Patrolman James Bowen Jr. and Mark Elliot, both members of the Delaware County Courthouse and Park Police, were administered their membership oath by Lodge President Richard Saraceni.Oxford University Oxford, England awarded a doctor of philosophy degree William J. Gatens, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Gattens of Chester.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

The Lions Club of Springfield is having its annual barbecue chicken fundraiser on Saturday at the township building. Offered are a half chicken, baked potato, roll butter, coleslaw and dessert.-

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