100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Chester Chief of Police Pennington has notified the various hack drivers and owners of stages that they must load and unload their passengers within the confines of Market Square and not encroach on Market Street or the side streets.During the course of the past few days Edward Keenan of 2500 W. Fourth St., Chester, has been across the river three times after snappers and has been so successful within the past week he has captured no less than 30 of the turtles. All are of a fair size and will finally figure as the main ingredient in his soup.A number of boys in the First Ward of Chester have ruined trees in the fields by building fires at the roots.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

More than 600 members of the Church of the Resurrection, Tenth Street and Highland Avenue, Chester, enjoyed an outing Sunday at Riverview Beach, N.J. The trip to and from the beach was made on one of the boats of the Wilson Line that was chartered for the occasion.A number of unemployed men of Collingdale are painting the names of all streets entering MacDade Boulevard and also are painting numbers of each house on the curb in front of the house.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

More than a dozen thoroughbred horses were safe in a nearby Chadds Ford field when fire ruined a stable on the farm of Edward S. Hinemann, a township supervisor. The fire started in a hay loft above the stalls. Hinemann is vice president of Delaware County Supply Co. in Boothwyn.The State Highway Department said there will be no more detouring of vehicles in the dismantling of the War Memorial Arch on Baltimore Pike, Springfield.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

Chester Upland School District cars are still missing from the district parking lot. District policy requires that all district cars be locked up at the Toby Farms depot nightly. Board Transportation Chairman Ed Mitchell said that at least three of seven cars are still truant.Three county residents have been charged with defrauding the state unemployment compensation fund of more than $5,000 by collecting benefits while ineligible. All were ordered to make full restitution.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Kamika Bost is a secretary in Chester Parks and Recreation Department and is flying to Houston, Texas., next month to represent the state in the Miss Black USA beauty pageant.

LEN CASTERLINE

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