Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

Exclaiming “To hell with the American flag!” when remonstrated with by Deputy Sheriff Joseph Lorenz, when the latter caught him trying to force an entrance into the dynamite house of the American International Ship Corporation at Hog Island, a man employed at the shipyard was promptly placed in custody by the deputy and taken to Media for a hearing before Squire Williamson. At the hearing Lorenz testified that the man not only abused the national emblem but made other remarks of a vile nature.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

The quarantine placed upon 10 houses in the vicinity of 115 Bradley St., Chester, where five and one-half month old Patricia Townsend was found suffering from smallpox has been lifted, Director Public Safety Michael A. Honan announced today. Honan and Health Director Timothy J. McCarey and two doctors from the State Health Department in Harrisburg worked until early this morning checking and examining all known contacts of the stricken baby.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

Some 70 Delaware County Chamber of Commerce members put on their thinking caps to come up with ideas for the chamber’s 1968 work program. In the first meeting of its in the chamber’s history, held at the Media Inn in Media, about 8 per cent of those attending favored the idea of moving their headquarters to “a more central location.” The chamber’s offices presently are at 406 Welsh St., Chester.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

While employees in Chester District Court continued to work in dangerous conditions last week, their landlord – Delaware County Council – put the finishing touches on a renovations of its reception area that cost more than $4,400 in tax dollars. The tab for new wallpaper and furniture for the room, which is located outside the private offices of council members, totaled $4,428.50, according to county records.

10 Years Ago – 2008:

W. Craig Williams told a crowd of Republican leaders gathered at Paxon Hollow Country Club for a nominating meeting that he wants to run against Democratic U.S. Rep. Joseph Sestak in the 7th District this year because “we have lost our voice in Congress.” “Our voice in Congress right now is telling the world, telling Congress itself, telling the nation … and, I believe most importantly, telling our troops, that this war is lost,” said Williams.