Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

At a meeting held last Monday, the congregation of the First Presbyterian Church decided to purchase a lot on the northeast corner of 23rd Street and Edgmont Avenue, Chester, as a site for a new church building. This important action was made necessary by the changing character of the neighborhood in which the church is at present located and by the shifting of the population to the uptown section of the city. At the present time there is no Presbyterian church above Ninth Street and there has been a steady demand for a Presbyterian church.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

Standing shoulder-toshoulder at Eddystone on Friday afternoon, thousands of men and women at the Baldwin Locomotive Works were presented with the coveted Army-Navy “E” Award for excellence in the production of vital war materials. The award was made by Col. D. N. Hauseman, chief of the Philadelphia Ordinance District, and Capt. H.E. Haven, U.S.N., supervisor of shipbuilding and Naval Inspector of Ordnance.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

Private pilots, trying for more than a decade to get a county airport, apparently won their struggle Wednesday. The county commissioners unanimously create the Delaware County Airport Authority and named three men – two of them private pilots – to it. A firm named more than a year ago by the commissioners to make an airport study has recommended a site in Concord, but it will be up to the authority to decide whether to act on the recommendation.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

An angry resident won a round of applause from the 250 residents attending a meeting of the Concerned Citizens and Taxpayers of the William Penn School District when he drew the line on school taxes. Repeated complaints were received about the current four-year teacher contract which provides total wage increase of 42.37 percent. Others called the administrators’ salaries “obscene” and the project 95 mill tax increase for 1993-94 “fiscal insanity.”

10 Years Ago – 2008:

A 92-year-old man who suspected his wife was cheating on him was arrested for repeatedly striking her with a metal cane after punching her in the face, Upper Darby police said. The victim, 45, said her husband accused her of an extramarital affair.