Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: Should present plans materialize, a detachment of 125 Canadian Highlanders with brass and pipe bands will come to this city next Tuesday, according to word received here this morning from Col. St. George Loftus Steele, of the British and Canadian recruiting mission. After giving a big demonstration in Philadelphia on Sunday urging Great Britain subjects to enlist under the flag of John Bull, Col. Steele hopes to bring the Highlanders to this city and to Eddystone. The Robert Burns Club of this city will work in Col. Steele to make the recruiting trip here successful. 75 Years Ago – 1942: Manufactured goods valued at close to a billion dollars are being turned out in the Chester area during 1942, according to a survey of industrial plants employing more than 100 persons. Industrial employment has reached more than 86,000. Payrolls for the year will approximate $350,000,000 as compared with $65,169,800 in 1940. The number of persons employed in industrial plants during the same period has increased 130 percent. The Philadelphia area, of which Delaware County is a part, is producing nearly one sixth of the nation’s war products today.
50 Years Ago – 1967: Michigan Gov. George W. Romney, wrapping up a short visit to the city, ate breakfast with the poor and well-to-do this morning at the Colony Hotel. He heard PMC College President Dr. Clarence R. Moll warn that the problems plaguing American cities are “even more important than what is going on in Vietnam.” The governor, an unannounced candidate for the 1968 Republican presidential nomination, listened attentively while Mayor James H. Gorbey and a long list of Greater Chester Movement (GCM) representatives told him how
the anti-poverty program is working in Delaware County.
25 Years Ago – 1992: A Marcus Hook man – who was forced to ride a bike after he lost his driver’s license due to a drunken driving conviction – Friday sued a Boothwyn pub for serving him liquor until he became drunk and crashed his bicycle into the back of a car two years ago. The manager of the bar denied he was served there that night. “He was permanently barred here,” the manager said.
10 Years Ago – 2007: Dozens lined up in the parking lot of the new Chick-fil-A restaurant on MacDade Boulevard in hopes of snatching one of the 100 coupons for a year’s worth of sandwiches from the Folsom eatery. The Knupps of Midland, Va., drove 200 miles to arrive at the Chick-fil-A and claim the first spot in line. It was their seventh campout for free sandwiches.