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100 Years Ago – 1918: New students, the vanguard of army registrants and new students who will pursue military training while continuing their education, began pouring into Chester today for the opening tomorrow of the 57th college year at the Pennsylvania Military College. One of the first colleges in the country to embrace the Students’ Army Training Corps plan, PMC has been organized as a SATC unit, and from now, for the duration of the war, is completely under the supervision of Uncle Sam.
75 Years Ago – 1943: Funds available at Iron Workers Building Association for first mortgage loans on residential property. Stop in and talk it over or telephone 3118. Iron Workers Building Association is located at 514 Crozer Building, Chester – member Federal Home Loan Bank System.
50 Years Ago – 1968: Delaware County Fire Marshal William J. Myers warned today that trash burning may be banned through the county unless the area gets some rain soon. Extremely dry weather – there’s been less than 2 inches of rain in the past two months – already has resulted in preventative action in one community. Marple Asst. Fire Marshall Starr announced a trash-burning ban in the township effective today until further notice.
25 Years Ago – 1993: The death toll from Monday’s tornado officially reached one yesterday with the reported passing of a local celebrity. Peppy, the oneeyed piranha, who for about five years swam happily in a tank at Campbell’s Boat House restaurant, gave up the ghost after the electricity powering his tank went out for several hours. Bob Campbell, who with brother James is today marking 24 years of owning the restaurant and bar, recalled the late fish. “His real name was Sammy Dayfish, but people started calling him Peppy because he would get agitated and kick water out of the tank and occasionally splash the customers,” he said. 10 Years Ago – 2008:
An Upland man has been sentenced to life behind bars by a U.S. District Judge in Philadelphia for his part in the distribution of more than five kilograms of cocaine in Delaware County. The man, who sold cocaine directly across from an elementary school in Toby Farms and has two prior drug trafficking convictions, is the first of nine defendants to be sentenced. “One message of this drug trafficking case is that selling drugs in the area of an elementary school will not be tolerated,” said Delaware County District Attorney G. Michael Green.