Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1917: For a good sauerkraut lunch, stop at the Seven Stars Hotel, Village Green, Aston, every Saturday evening – 25 cents per order. William H. Marquis, proprietor. Do you think the little things amount to nothing? What vexes you most? It is the little things that go wrong every day. What gives you the greatest satisfaction every day? Again it is the little things. An account with the Pennsylvania National Bank will help you systematize you affairs so that the little things as well as the larger things will run smoothly. Try it before another sunset. Open Friday night, 7 to 8:30. 75 Years Ago – 1942: Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. employees are setting a pace which soon may overshadow that already established by an shipyard in the United States. Within the octave of the memorable sneak attack of the Japanese forces upon Pearl Harbor, the 30,000 employees already are approaching 10 percent of the total shipbuilding production throughout the nation.
50 Years Ago – 1967:
The Chester School Board voted 6-3 Monday night to keep its controversial “choker” rule limiting public participating at its meeting. The vote came on a motion by school director Francis G. Pileggi that the board repeal the rule on the “principle of allowing the public to speak at public school board meetings.” Pileggi called the choker an “artificial restriction” of the public’s “constitutional right” to speak. But board President Clarence H. Roberts asked the board to reject Pileggi’s motion and said board meetings are not “a forum to sound off on various ills of the community.”
25 Years Ago – 1992: The Garnet Valley High School marching band garnered the top score at the Freedom Conference in Hershey earlier this month. The Freedom Conference is the small band section of the Cavalcade of Bands station championship competition.
Garnet Valley’s band, led by music teacher Vince DeMarro, includes 20 musicians, seven color guards and two honor guards.
10 Years Ago – 2007:
As you sit idling in traffic during rush hour, you’ll probably be the last person to be surprised that traffic volume has increased 7.5 percent in the Delaware Valley region between 2000 and 2005, according to a report compiled by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. The report reveals a total of 3.6 million vehicles were counted at 480 locations throughout the region.