Monday, September 15, 2008

Other Times --- Sept. 15

100 YEARS AGO – 1908
Chester School Attendance Officer Thomas N. Humphreys was commended by the Chester School Board with one member declaring that his salary ought to be raised if it is all possible for the board to do so. No action was taken.George E. Darlington, the county attorney, again was a unanimous choice for president of the Rose Tree Fox Hunting Club in Upper Providence. Horace S. Griffith, the Rockdale manufacturer, is off on a business trip that will carry him through the West and into Mexico.
75 YEARS AGO – 1933
Gash Stull in Chester is selling a 1929 Ford Roadster in excellent condition for $105.Weinberg’s in Chester is selling the new Personality Beret for $1. Weinberg’s also gives you your initial to press on the beret with a hot iron.Henry Heuber, president of Marcus Hook Borough Council, declared that he is still in the race for tax collector.
50 YEARS AGO – 1958
Singer Eddie Fisher, who is writing column in The Chester Times, says he will do anything to save his marriage to Debbie Reynolds.Karl Agan, principal of Chester High, will speak at the observance celebrating the 100th anniversary of the First Baptist Church in Chester.Rabbi Louis R. Wolfish is the new spiritual director of Beth Israel Synagogue in Media.W. Nelson Birstrer, Middletown Township supervisor, died at the age of 55.
25 YEARS AGO – 1983
A jury acquitted a 29-year-old Upper Darby man on charges he bullied two teen-age boys into robbing an elderly Upper Darby couple with instructions to stab the pair if they awakened. The defendant is a brother of a Folcroft police officer.The Delco Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Unit presented an award to Morton Police Chief George Souder for his outstanding work.Aldan police are looking for a man who exposed himself to a borough woman who was walking two children at Elm and Aldan avenues. The man was driving down the street when he opened his car door at a stop sign and exposed himself. He was naked from the waist down.
10 YEARS AGO – 1998
A DUI checkpoint on Route 202 in Concordville netted six motorists, all of whom were arrested for driving under the influence. A total of 650 cars were stopped along with 32 commercial vehicles.
— LEN CASTERLINE
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