Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1919:

The official opening of the Jewish Relief Campaign will take place tonight at a dinner in Masonic Hall, Fourth and Market streets, which will be attended by 250 of the most prominent men and women in Chester and Delaware County. A shipyard worker walked into the headquarters of the campaign committee in the Cambridge Building and handed S.J. Keiser, campaign manager, a sealed pay envelope. It was a week’s salary – $49.20. He was insistent on refusing to give his name except to emphasize that he was a war veteran and a Gentile, stating in a letter “Enclosed is a week’s pay which I am contributing to the Jewish War Relief

Fund, toward the relief of those unfortunates in Europe.”

75 Years Ago – 1944: How many burgesses are there in Delaware County, and what do they look like? Who is the borough secretary in Aldan, and how can we know him when we see him? These and hundreds of other questions are answered in the 1945 Chester Times Year Book and Almanac of Delaware County. For the first time in its 23year history, the Chester Times Year Book will carry photographs of borough and township leaders, as well as photographs of the key men and women in county government. 50 Years Ago – 1969:

General alarm fires Sunday morning leveled three warehouses of the

Collingdale Millwork Co., Collingdale, and damaged four Darby houses. One fireman was treated for minor smoke inhalation. At one time flames from the lumberyard fire reached

200 feet. The warehouses, total approximately

67,000 square feet, are located at Clifton Avenue and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks.

25 Years Ago – 1994:

A house that was standing at the time of the Revolutionary War will be spared when the 26-acre property surrounding it is divided into 10 lots. The Birmingham Township Planning Commission last night reviewed the preliminary plan for Shallcross, a 10-lot subdivision at Oakland and Brinton’s Bridge roads near the village of Dilworthtown. According to presenter Lou Dickinson, president of L.D. Dickson Inc., of Chadds Ford, the circa-1766 manor house, which may have seen action during the Battle of the Brandywine, is presently on the market for $695,000.

10 Years Ago – 2009: A

group of Chester residents agreed it’s time to turn up the heat and pressure local politicians to approve a supermarket deal, whether that means sending out petitions, holding rallies or even halting construction at the soccer stadium site. Approximately 30 residents attended Monday night’s meeting, led by leaders of the city’s Democratic party, ACORN and the NAACP.