100 YEARS AGO – 1908

Felton Fire Co. in Chester was taken to task because it is said its horses and exercise wagon have been used as a public conveyances outside the city limits.Chester’s Bethel Court had the atmosphere of the Wild West as a herd of steers consigned to John J. Buckley’s slaughterhouse broke loose and raced through the streets for almost an hour before being rounded up by police and Buckley workers. The slaughterhouse is near Bethel Court.

75 YEARS AGO – 1933

The Delaware County Bar Association was presented with an oil painting of the late George Eyre Darlington, the county’s oldest lawyer, who died last January at the age of 101. The painting was presented by Mrs. Elizabeth D. Eyre Sisson of Rhode Island, who is a third cousin of Mr. Darlington. She painted the portrait.An Upper Darby man is in custody on bigamy charges. He told officials why he married a woman ever though he had a wife. “It’s just one of those things. I can’t explain it, except to say that I just went crazy over the girl.”

50 YEARS AGO – 1958

Police are still looking for a couple of nimble and impatient prisoners who escaped from the county prison at Thornton. The pair made a clean getaway from Broadmeadows Prison. They escaped through a rear door when a bread man made his daily delivery. They ran off into the nearby woods.Robert A. Wright, a Chester attorney, is being honored at a testimonial banquet at the West Branch YMCA in Chester. The affair is sponsored by the 25 Club with Mrs. Theottis Prince and Mrs. Fannie Johnson as cochairmen. The Springfield pool at Baltimore Pike and Woodland Avenue has been purchased by two public-school teachers who will run it as a private club. For 12 years the pool was operated by Eustace “Steve” Photos. Purchasers are Steve Fogel and Samuel Druzin.

25 YEARS AGO –1983

Youth in Action of Chester provides temporary shelter for runaways at Seventh Street and Morton Avenue. Assistant Director Lewis Fields said he hopes to enlist the aid of homeowners with the project.A 56-year-old man was nabbed as the alleged robber of the Rose Valley-Moylan Post Office. Office Police Sgt. Richard Demkin said the man was arrested in Chester County.

10 YEARS AGO – 1998

Residents near Jackson and Pusey streets, Collingdale, have been complaining to borough council about loud music from factory space in the neighborhood that has been used as a rehearsal studio by a band. Council said it will take some action to stop the practice.-

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