Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
The Baldwin Locomotive Works has purchased two large tracts of land north of the company’s plant in Eddystone. Developments that will mean eventually an outlay of $15,000,000 have been started. The two tracts comprise more than 100 acres each. The company now owns the entire riverfront between the original Eddystone plan south of the mount of Crum Creek and Darby Creek.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
A beauty contest has been started to select a Miss Delaware County, who will compete at Atlantic City in the Miss America pageant next September. Miss Chester will be selected at the 100 Club, Third and Welsh streets. Later, winners will be selected in Media, Upper Darby, Darby and Springfield. From these five winners, Miss Delaware County will be chosen. Thus she will compete with Miss Bucks County, Miss Montgomery County and Miss Chester county for the Miss Eastern Pennsylvania title.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
Two Eddystone youths charged with discharging firearms in Chester have had their case dismissed because the arresting Chester policeman did not show up for a hearing. The two youths were arrested June 20 for allegedly shooting rifles at rats along a creek near 14th Street and Sun Drive.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
Chester’s non-uniformed workers voted overwhelmingly last week to join Teamsters Local 312, making them union members for the first time in the city’s history. The vote was 903, with 26 contested ballots. If no one challenges the conduct of the election within five days, the union will be certified as the bargaining agent for the 106 employees, most of them clerks or laborers in the highway, sanitation and pest control departments.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
After countless drug arrests, Upper Darby Police Superintendent Michael Chitwood declared a township man the “the oldest drug dealer” he’s encountered. “Here’s a guy, 77, a career criminal who is selling methamphetamine on the streets of our community,” Chitwood said. “His arrest record goes back to 1950, when he was arrested and convicted of robbery in Pittsburgh.” After a routine traffic stop for a faulty rear light, Police seized methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $5,600 and $1,700 cash from the man’s front pockets of his pants.