100 YEARS AGO — 1908

John H. Miller, who has been a painter and paperhanger in Darby for almost 50 years, has a 150-year-old spinning wheel that was once used by his grandmother. He plans to enclose the relic in a glass case for safekeeping.John H. Mirkil, Chester Realtor and Milton H. Bickley, a Chester druggist, caught two rockfish weighing 18 and 16 pounds each while they were fishing in the Susquehanna River.Constable Dowrick of Chester is on the lookout for a boy who has been accused of shooting squirrels in the neighborhood of the Wetherill School at 24th and Chestnut streets, Chester.

75 YEARS AGO — 1933

The Delaware County Institute of Science received letters of congratulations from President Franklin D. Roosevelt and former President Herbert C. Hoover as it observed its 100th anniversary.Dr. Newton Wyman of Chester is now chief resident physician at Temple University Hospital. He was a polo star while he was a student at Pennsylvania Military College in Chester.

50 YEARS AGO — 1958

Co-ed swim night on Saturdays has become a regular part of the program at the Chester YMCA. Edward E. Morrell, physical education director at the Y, said the co-ed swim has proven popular and will remain. Seven minors, two of them young wives, were rounded up in a raid at a bar near the Norwood Police Station. It was the second raid in a month in the borough’s crackdown on underage drinking. Several of the minors said they had been frequenting the bar for months.More than 1,100 employees returned to work at Ford Motor Company’s Chester Assembly Plant as the factory resumed production of its 1958 model autos.

25 YEARS AGO — 1983

A man was arrested on charges he tried to steal more than $1,000 worth of dresses from the Gimbel’s Department store on 69th Street, Upper Darby. Store detectives arrested him as he was taking 20 dresses from the store.The Chester Social Security Office is moving next week to its new headquarters at the Chester Federal Office Building at 160 E. Seventh St. Parking is available.

10 YEARS AGO — 1998

Melissa A. Miller of Prospect Park and Robert Kitzinger of Upper Darby both made the dean’s list at Slippery Rock University for academic achievement.

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