Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Other Times --- Sept. 24

100 YEARS AGO – 1908
The bold daylight robbery at the home of J.E. Halsey near Boothwyn has roused the entire community, especially the women. The farmers who must go into the fields at this season of the year to reap the harvests and plant wheat and oats have purchased firearms for the women and are teaching them how to shoot them.A man named Maxwell who fell off one of the Darby trolley cars was only slightly hurt. The man attempted to get off the car before it had stopped and sustained the injury. It had been feared that his leg was broken in the fall but, fortunately, this proved to be an incorrect rumor. William Nicholas, the Chester City Hall janitor, has procured a fumigating apparatus that he has loaded with poisonous powder to exterminate all the roaches that have found a home at the city hall.
75 YEARS AGO – 1933
Charles E. Coppock of Chester recalls the first 100-mile run of the Chester Bicycle Club on Sept 22, 1895, from Chester to Vineland, N.J., and return. “It took skill and endurance to ride a Columbia high wheel in those days,” he said.Mrs. E. Blair Luckie, a Chester club woman, was the guest of Gov. and Mrs. Gifford Pinchot at their summer home in Milford.
50 YEARS AGO – 1958
F. Levis Stringfellow, Chester postmaster, announced he is retiring after having served 46 years and four months at the local post office. He lives in the Sproul Estates section in Wallingford. He said he is retiring because he doesn’t want to wait until he is “too old to do anything.”John J. Miller of 316 E. 22nd St., Chester, a graduate of St. James High School, Chester, and a candidate for the priesthood at St. Charles Seminary, sailed for Rome to spend the next six years studying at the Lateran College.
25 YEARS AGO – 1983
Darby has decided to go out of the jail business. Public Safety Chairman Nicholas DiGregorio said the borough has acted as the lockup for six surrounding municipalities but it is not a successful financial venture. He said the costs, including insurance, make the concept financially irresponsible.When a Trimble Boulevard, Brookhaven, man returned home he found a strange new car parked in his driveway and called police. It was determined that the car had been stolen from a leasing company in Radnor and had been damaged in accident.
10 YEARS AGO – 1998
Cadet Sgt. Donald F. Blizzard, son of Nadine Blizzard of Ridley Park, graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne. He is now attending Western Maryland College.
--- LEN CASTERLINE
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