Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1917:

Brooding over her love affairs, a 22-year-old Chester woman entered Shober’s Café at Market Square and, after conversing with a waiter about her trouble, declared there was a BoChloride of Mercury tablet in her coffee. After first it was believed the girl was joking, but having displayed the bottle, the waiter telephoned the police headquarters. The woman was sent to Crozer Hospital in a jitney. Hospital attendants this morning the declared the patient was in a good condition and that no traces of poison have been discovered. However, they stated if she has taken the tablet, she is not out of the

danger zone and it requires several days to work.

75 Years Ago – 1942 :In an impressive ceremony attended by prominent members of the bar and industrial and civic leaders of the county, Judge Albert Dutton MacDade was sworn in as president judge of the Delaware County Common Pleas and Quarter Sessions Courts. Shortly after motion court opened at 10, E. Wallace Chadwick, president of the Bar Association, arose and announced that routine court matters would be suspended while Judge MacDade was sworn in.

50 Years Ago – 1967:

Heavy rains fell on Delaware County Monday and early today, flooding basements, causing electrical service disruptions and slowing traffic on waterfilled streets and rail lines. More than 2 inches of rain had been recorded at International Airport since 7 a.m. Monday, while the Daily Times weather station at Edgmont recorded 3.5 inches.

25 Years Ago – 1992: The District Attorney’s Drug Task Force and Haverford police busted a milliondollar marijuana operation, arresting three people and seizing about 65 pounds of marijuana worth $250,000, $32,181 in cash and weapons from a rented home in Havertown, authorities reported.

10 Years Ago – 2007: The Rose Tree Media School Board voted unanimously to have a .8 percent personal income tax referendum question placed on the May 15 primary ballot. This was the recommendation of the district’s Tax Study Commission. However, William Taylor of Middletown, who chaired the seven-member volunteer study commission, urges residents to vote “no” on the question. He said the commission could have recommended an earned income tax, but believed a PIT is a broader-based tax and would be equitable to a greater number of residents.