Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1917:

Special attention is called by Mayor W.S. McDowell today to all men who failed to register on Tuesday, according to the term of the selective conscription act. The Chester executive has extended the time for a few days before arrests will be made. Men having failed to register are warned that unless they immediately appear of the office of the mayor to register, they will have to suffer the penalty – one year imprisonment. It has developed that a few “slackers” living in this city failed to register.

75 Years Ago – 1942:

Mrs. V. Ewald, of 619 Dupont St., Chester, reported to police that when passing a dress factory at 12th and Chestnut streets, girl employees, standing at second story windows, frightened her by hurling electric light bulbs on the sidewalk in front of her.

50 Years Ago – 1967:

Legislation to enable the Delaware River Port Authority to develop $12.5 million worth of port facilities in Chester was introduced in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, co-sponsored by some 20 representatives including Thomas H. Worrilow, R-159 of Chester, who introduced it, and Stanley Kester, R-160 of Chester Township. The authority is planning to develop three 360-foot ship berths and related facilities on a 90-acre site bounded by Front Street, Highland Avenue and Sinclair Refining Co.

25 Years Ago – 1992:

Thirteen immigrants from eight nations in Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East, South Pacific and North American became citizens in a recent unique naturalization program of the Delaware County at the 1724 Colonial Courthouse. The old courthouse in the 400 block of Avenue of the States, Chester, was selected as the site for the ceremony because Chester was the first major settlement in Delaware County and attracted hundreds of thousands of immigrants through past years.

10 Years Ago – 2007:

With his 7-year-old daughter riding with him, a Chester man was four-times the legal intoxication limit for alcohol when he lost control of his Jeep and crashed into five parked vehicles in a Linwood neighborhood, according to Lower Chichester police and an arrest affidavit. According to the affidavit of probable cause for arrest, the 35-yearold’s blood-alcohol concentration registered 0.328. The man told police he was returning from a crab feast when they arrived on Ridge Avenue to find his red Jeep parked in a front yard of a house, within about 15 feet of the porch.