Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918:
There is some modest person in Chester who won’t admit he is a hero. But his modesty caused certain newspapermen several hours’ uneasiness today. Yes, and many a housewife in the vicinity of Seventh and Penn streets, thinking the poor scribe was a book agent, fish peddler, or some other source of annoyance, failed to answer the ring of their doorbell. One woman informed ascertain scribe that she would “let her insurance go until next week.” But, however, it all comes back to the unidentified hero who answered the cries of help from someone who slipped, fell or was pushed into the Chester River in the vicinity of Seventh and Penn streets.
75 Years Ago – 1943:
The annual meeting of the Women’s Missionary Society of the Riverside Baptist Association, will be held in North Chester Baptist Church, Providence Avenue and Chestnut Street, Chester. Mrs. J. Herbert Cope, missionary from Burma, who has given many years to foreign service among the Chin Hills of Burma, will give the address.
50 Years Ago – 1968:
What does an 18-year-old Ridley High School senior do when she finds out she has won a $1,000 U.S. Savings Bond in the Delaware County Daily Times safety essay contest? “I started jumping up and down,” said first-place winner Nancy J. Harrold, 504 Monta Vista Ave. Nancy, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rolin J. Harrold, won top prize for her 1 1⁄2-page essay relating safety to love and brotherhood. The second-place $500bond winner Beverly J. Roberts, 16, of 12 Valley Green Drive, Aston, said her essay was based on a religious theme.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
A plan for a new teen center in part of the Gauntlett Community Center has come before the Marple Newtown School Board. Although the board didn’t take action of the proposal because it’s in the early planning stages, it unanimously voiced support of the concept.
10 Years Ago – 2008:
Newtown supervisors have unanimously granted conditional approval of an agreement with the Albermarle Group, accepting the company’s offer to make $600,000 worth of improvements to Gable Park. Albermarle is an investment equity firm willing to swap the installation of a 70-yard-by-70-yard artificial surface, restrooms and landscaping for 25 daylight hours of field use per week.