Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: A bombshell was sent into the ranks of the jitney owners and drivers this morning, when Chester city council sounded warning to the drivers for the reckless manner in which they are running on West Third Street. Of the seven applications read, one was rejected when Council C.H. Mould attacked the applicant’s record. In the granting of the licenses, warning was given that for the first violation of the city jitney ordinance, the license would be revoked.
75 Years Ago – 1942: The lack of Democrats in Concord almost spoiled Tuesday’s election. The lone voting machine became jammed early in the evening with a line of voters. A cursory inspection revealed that it would be necessary to pull off the Democratic lever in order to release the mechanism. A brave Republican, tired of waiting, offered to vote Democratic, but he was rejected due to the inherent violation of state election law. A search was made for a Democrat and it was discovered that the only one available was Charles Robinson. A hurry call was sent out and he left his store, crawled under the curtain of the voting machine and pulled the lever. The line of voters thanked the obliging Mr. Robinson. 50 Years Ago – 1967: State Sen. Clarence D. Bell, R-9 of Upland, today denied a report that the Chester unit of the National Guard will be dissolved under the Defense Department’s plan for reorganization of Army Reserves. Bell, a brigadier general in the National Guard, said he got “the facts” from Adj. Gen Thomas R. White of the Pennsylvania National Guard.
25 Years Ago – 1992: Flowers will soon greet motorists entering and exiting the Blue Route at the MacDade Boulevard interchange, thanks a cooperative effort by the township’s Environmental Advisory Board and the Ridley Township Business
Association. Ridley High students Debbie Lonabaugh and Michelle Higham, both members of the school’s Environmental Club, assisted in planting the more than 150 perennials.
10 Years Ago – 2007: Brookhaven council unanimously approved, with conditions, the revised final land development plans for the construction of a super Wawa on Edgmont Avenue at the site of the former Frank’s Nursery and Crafts Store. The 6,254-squarefoot convenience store will feature 118 parking spaces and eight gasoline distribution pumps.