Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: The Thomas Clark Branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom was organized yesterday afternoon in the St. Rose of Lima Hall, Eddystone, and officers elected. Among the officials elected for the new branch is Michael Hefferan, president, a close friend of Patrick H. Pearce, executed in Dublin after the Sinn Fein rebellion.
75 Years Ago – 1942: The proprietor of a mid-city tap room complained to Chester police that one of his bartenders had absconded with yesterday’s receipts amounting to $584. William P. Murphy, proprietor of Murphy’s Cafe, 22 E. Sixth St., told police he left the
establishment early last night, with the bartender in charge. When he went to the place this morning to open it for the day he was unable to find the money for yesterday’s business
50 Years Ago – 1967:
The Tinicum Township Elementary School PTA will conduct a candy sale, with three varieties to be sold. The child who sells the most candy in his class will receive a prize of $1. Springfield Junior High School students will canvass their neighborhoods through Oct. 20 for donations of used books and magazines for the seventh annual book fair. Students annually perform the task. More than 1,500 people will be involved in the event.
25 Years Ago – 1992: The Chester Upland School District will add to its professional staff and beef up its security force in an effort to ease the overcrowding and tensions at Chester High School. The district will hire five full-time teachers, one half-time teacher, a new vice principal and five new security guards on the recommendation of Principal Robert Morgan and Lionel Lauer, the education management consultant who has assumed broad responsibilities for the administration of the school district since he was hired on three weeks ago.
10 Years Ago – 2007: Sunoco Inc. plans to bring 400 jobs to the area next year when it establishes an engineering and support-staff center at Orion Philadelphia Business Park, the former Westinghouse facility, near the Philadelphia International Airport in Tinicum. The Philadelphia-based petroleum and petrochemical company plans entered a long-term lease to rent 105,000 square feet of the former Philadelphia Airport Business Complex, the 1.7 million square feet industrial and office campus purchased by Ireland-based Castleway Properties last October for $35.5 million.