Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917:
Delaware County will soon have another industry which will make this county famous the world over, as well as a Delaware County man, George Bowen, who is at the head of the new concern and whose ingenious brain is responsible for the new enterprise. This new industry is known as the Bowen Anchor Co. of Morton. The buildings are now in course of erection on a 5-acre lot and when completed the work of manufacturing the new anchor for all kinds of boats will be manufactured.
75 Years Ago – 1942:
For the second time in four days Chester firemen responded to a rubbish fire at the warehouse on the Chester River between Fifth Street and the Pennsylvania Railroad. This time the blaze was outside the building in a trash pile on the banks of the river, presumably starting from a tossed cigarette in the rubbish which had seen thrown on the river side.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
An estimated 1,000 Delaware County residents are expected to participate Saturday in a national peace demonstration in Washington. Buses are scheduled to leave from Crozer Theological Seminary in Upland and Swarthmore College. Other local groups to be presented at the mass rally include Cheyney State and Haverford colleges and Upland Institute of Social Change.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
St. James Alumni Association President Bob McLaughlin outlined his St. James saving strategies last night to hundreds of parents, alumni and students, rallying around alterative plans to closure: St. James could double its enrollment by admitting girls for the first time next school year; alumni have embarked on a $1 million fundraising campaign; St. James, in partnership with St. Robert’s parish, would establish itself as a “Regional Catholic Educational Campus;” and, failing those ideas, the Alumni Association would ask the archdiocese to hand over the school building to be run as an independent high school.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
Before it achieved “deadly superbug” and “drug-resistant killer germ” status, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, or MRSA, was nothing for school officials to write home about. But, the closing of two Delco schools – Chichester High School, then Indian Lane Elementary in Rose Tree Media School District – in two days clearly illustrates different times call for desperate measures.