100 YEARS AGO — 1908

Thomas King, proprietor of the Union Hotel in Chester, received from a friend an elaborately carved cane decorated with a graphic design of an alligator and a snake.The second-shortest will in the history of the county courthouse was filed by the late Charles E. Drane of Chester. It read: “I leave all to my wife.” The shortest will on record at the courthouse reads: “All to my mother.”

75 YEARS AGO — 1933

The jinx that has pursued the crack drum and bugle corps of the John Wesley Cross American Legion Post in Norwood has struck again. It missed capturing the state championship by one-tenth of a point to a corps from Greensburg.

50 YEARS AGO — 1958

Sweatshirts and rolled-up jeans may be the classroom vogue at many schools, but Pennsylvania Military College in Chester will have none of it. Students must wear shirts, ties and jackets. If they aren’t so attired, professors and instructors have been ordered to dismiss them.John J. Sullivan Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Sullivan of 507 Saude Ave., Essington, who is the recipient of a senatorial scholarship, enters Temple University School of Law next month. He is a graduate of Villanova University.

25 YEARS AGO — 1983

Dolly Long, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Long, is this year’s Miss Linwood Beauty Pageant winner. She is a 1983 graduate of Chichester High School. Junior Miss Linwood is Dawn Marie Snyder, 8, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Snyder.

10 YEARS AGO — 1998

Jeff Civillico, 15, of Drexel Hill, won first place in the International Jugglers Association championships in Nevada. He won a gold medal in the Junior Division. He is an honor student at St. Joseph’s Prep, where he is involved in the band, choir and drama.

— LEN CASTERLINE

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