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100 Years Ago – 1918: Many new features will be introduced by the Fourth Liberty Loan Committee of Delaware County to promote the sale of bonds. S. Lloyd Irving, chairman of this district, and his staff of coworkers have arranged an extensive program to reach every point in this city and county. Details have been completed to bring the Exhibit Train here twice with German war relics. All sorts of things captured from the Germans are contained in the train, which has been sent out by the government.
75 Years Ago – 1943: John A. Watts Lodge 224, and its auxiliary, Susan Shands Temple 103, will celebrate the burning of a 13-year mortgage on their lodge hall with impressive ceremonies this evening and tomorrow. A banquet tonight, and a parade and ceremonial “mortgage burning” tomorrow will climax the efforts of the local Elks to clear their home, 1814 W. Second St., of a mortgage incurred when the lodge was erected in 1930.
50 Years Ago – 1968: Testimony regarding teenage sex orgies, gambling and marijuana peddling in Media highlighted testimony in county court before Judge Edwin E. Lippincott II. Media Police Chief Thomas J. Bruton said a 9:15 p.m. Saturday, May 4, raid on an apartment at 30 W. State St. was scheduled after a Brookhaven father reported his daughter missing. Bruton said the Sunday before the raid he had counted 32 teenagers entering and leaving the apartment.
25 Years Ago – 1993: When Penrose Properties Inc. of Philadelphia bought 21 rowhouses in the 1000 block of West Fifth Street in Chester last year, they were dilapidated and more than half were vacant. On Friday, the developer and local and county officials attended a dedication ceremony for the completely rehabilitated row on the north side of the street, called the Chester Renaissance/Fifth Street Apartments.
10 Years Ago – 2008: James B. “Mickey” Vernon, the Marcus Hook native who went on to a distinguished career in major league baseball, died Wednesday afternoon at Riddle Memorial Hospital. He was 90. Vernon, an outstanding athlete at Eddystone High School, began his major-league career in 1939 with the Washington Senators. “Delaware County has lost a great man,” Jim Vankoski, friend of Vernon and former president of the Delco Baseball League, said. “He was this county’s role model, an example of how someone should act. If you wanted to know how to do something, all you had to ask yourself was how Mickey would have done it.