Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

A 35-year-old bartender employed during the past three weeks by Charles McCall, proprietor of Chester’s Colonnade Hotel, was forced to “Match the President” this morning by purchasing a $50 Liberty Bond when he appeared for a hearing before Magistrate Thomas C. Berry, being slated on a “pro-German” charge. The man was forced to kiss the American flag at Market Square last night after he had received a severe pummeling by a crowd who took offence at his untimely remarks.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

The adage “crime doesn’t pay” applies not only to the perpetrator of crime but to the taxpayers. During the year 1942, the taxpayers of Delaware County paid nearly a half million dollars for the detection and prosecution of criminals and their detention. The total is $478,488, according to the report. Of this total, $157,444 was appropriated to Broad Meadows Farms and $45,106 to the county prison in Media.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

Delaware County school board members voted to study a proposal to make teacher salary scales uniform among the county’s 34 local school districts. They voted to submit the proposal to a legislative committee of the Delaware County School Districts Association. The teacher salary action came at the end of the convention session after several school directors suggested a uniform scale would end competition among districts for teachers.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

Public housing tenants’ fight for better living conditions moves from the picket line to the federal courthouse in Philadelphia, where a trail is scheduled to begin today. Representatives of Chester’s four public housing projects and two senior citizen towers picketed the executive offices of the Chester Housing Authority last month, complaining of unsafe and unsanitary conditions. The Delaware County Legal Assistance Association filed a federal class action suit against CHA and the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development in October 1990.

10 Years Ago – 2008:

Middletown council unanimously granted the conditional-use application of T-Mobile Northeast, enabling the company to install and operate a communications antenna within the steeple of Middletown Presbyterian Church on Old Middletown Road at Indian Lane. The church is in a residential zoning district, which allows cell towers by conditional-use approval.