Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

Charged with being implicated in damaging machinery at the plant of the Thurlow Steel Foundry in Chester, where shells are being manufactured for the government, a man from the 300 block of Howell Street was arrested yesterday at the request of William Peale, superintendent of the works. Peale said that the defendant had made some very ugly remarks about the Untied States and indicated that he was an Austrian.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

Media Borough, aided by county officials and Legionnaires from throughout the county, last night honored its two homecoming war heroes. In the twilight of a cloudless sky and as the stars shone down on the crowd of probably 3,000 persons on the high school athletic field, First Class Private Jack Sugarman, U.S. Marines, and Capt .John Gillette Moe Jr., Army Air Corps, were lauded for their exploits. Both men received handsome gold wrist watches.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

A 21-year-old Chester man, involved in an automobile accident early Sunday morning, has been held on $1,000 bail for the next term of court. The man, from the 500 block of Central Avenue, was held last week by Magistrate Ernest L. Burk on charges of damaging city property, assaulting police officers, driving under the influence of alcohol and resisting arrest.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

He is the pope of Chester. Part priest and part politician, part healer and part dealer. Rev. Joseph J. Quindlen. He was hand-picked by Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua in April to overhaul Catholicism in a city that had twice as many funerals as baptisms over the last five years. Mission Improbable begins next Sunday, when Quindlen is installed as the founding pastor of Blessed Katharine Drexel, the new citywide parish that will pack the pews of six churches into one at the 1092 Providence Ave. site of St. Robert’s.

10 Years Ago – 2008:

A building at Fifth and Main streets that collapsed is now stabilized and blocked off, Darby Borough officials said. Borough Manager Mark Possenti said he received a call at 7:30 p.m. Friday informing him that the vacant building at 433 Main had partially collapsed from the roof. Lincoln Co. demolished the remaining walls of the structure and Cassidy Construction did the cleanup and cleared the bricks and debris from the street. A portion of the sidewalk was cleared for pedestrians.