100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Preliminary arrangements have been completed for the annual camp meeting at Twin Oaks on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad under the direction of the Holiness Christian Church. On the grounds on Sundays there will be no sales permitted and no meals will be served on that day to the general visiting public. The rates for tenting and other equipment are reasonable.
Several persons who went to the foot of Highland Avenue in Chester for the purpose of taking a swim were compelled to remain out of the water on account of the large quantity of oil that was floating on the surface. The greasy fluid had fouled up the river from the oil works at Marcus Hook.A bullfrog that was lost from its Parker Street, Chester, home has been returned to its owner after he appealed for its return.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

Four hundred boys were scheduled to make the trip to Philadelphia’s Shibe Park but by the time the assembly had been packed into the waiting cars and trucks it was estimated that more than 1,000 baseball enthusiasts had decided to be the guests of Connie Mack as members of the Chester and Upland boys clubs. They left from Third and Kerlin streets in Chester and there were 15 trucks plus 35 private cars in the caravan. Led by Chief Deputy Sheriff Hamilton D. Ewell, a number of deputy sheriffs poured 65 gallons of liquor, 638 bottles of beer and 22 quarts of wine down the drain outside the county garage.

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

An epidemic of measles has forced the closing of the boys session at Camp Sunshine a week early. The camp is in Thornton.
The family of Martin Pastuszek of 2448 W. 9th St., Chester, built a summer home in Beach Haven, N.J. with their own hands. The home is a two-story dwelling with apartments on the second floor. It took them more than two years to construct. The home is called “Ollie-Mar,’’ which is the first name of the wife, Olga, and Martin.

25 YEARS AGO – 1983

Thomas Bruder of Springfield, president of MAB paints in Broomall, has been re-elected to the board of trustees at Neumann College in Aston.
Two Brookhaven residents were arrested for breaking the store display window with a metal trash container at the Channel Home Center at the Brookhaven Shopping Center on Edgmont Avenue.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Dr. John Logue of Swarthmore, emeritus professor of political science at Villanova University, was named as the new president of the Greater Philadelphia chapter of the United Nations Association USA.

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