Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: The Food Conservation Committee of Nether Providence Township held an interesting and instructive meeting in the interest of food conservation and the utilization of waste lands in the township. There are several hundred acres of valuable land in the township which are idle. Much of this land could be used to good advantage, and the conservation committee has been doing its “bit” to help with the war by encouraging people to plant those acres next summer.
75 Years Ago – 1942: The nation’s greatest grid spectacle – Army vs. Navy — was shuffled back into the limbo of a backwater college
thrill under a wartime de-emphasis measure. But despite the reduction of the thrill-seeking annual turnout from 102,000 to less to than 20,000 the 43rd annual game still was “tops” to most Americans.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
Eight youths escaped from Glen Mills School in Thornbury Monday night and were still at large today. Their escape followed by several hours a breakout by three other youths from the school. Those three were captured about an hour after they escaped.
25 Years Ago – 1992:
Goodwill Industries of Delaware and Delaware County Inc. announced the acquisition of the company’s first retail store in Pennsylvania. Ted G. VanName, president of Goodwill, reported that the new 17,000-square-foot Goodwill retail store will be located in MacDade Plaza, MacDade Boulevard. The store will begin accepting donations in December and will open for business in February. Goodwill already operates five other stores in Delaware, and four attended donations centers in New Castle County.
10 Years Ago – 2007: A
City Line man was allegedly selling extremely high-grade marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms to so many different people, it’s “highly likely” there were some Delaware County customers, authorities said. Still, that was as far as Capt. Chris Werner, head of the Philadelphia Police Narcotics Field Unit, would go in identifying any of the 24-year-old’s alleged clients. When asked how many clients might have been involved, Werner responded, “We’ve confiscated $500,000 in cash so far … that’s just profit.” Philadelphia police, with FBI assistance, seized $1.8 million worth of pot, mushrooms and cash from a City Avenue apartment. Investigators suspect the drugs were destined for the suburbs.