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100 Years Ago – 1920: Every effort is being put forth to make next Saturday a day of stirring patriotism and civic pride. It is American Day and is to be marked here by the unveiling of a tablet in honor of the members of the Chester Fire Department who saw service in the World War. A liberal display of flags and bunting at business houses and homes is requested.
75 Years Ago – 1945:
The eviction of Delaware County’s first woman mail carrier, mother of eight children, was temporarily stayed yesterday in county court. Dorothea B. Wright, postmistress of the Morton Post Office, appealed to the court on behalf of one of her mail carriers, Elsie Smith, of 210 Pennington Ave., Morton, that the rent had been paid up to date. Judge Albert Dutton MacDade asked Sheriff Raymond Munson to investigate the matter and in a few hours her furniture was back in the house with an understanding that the matter would be settled following a conference Monday.
50 Years Ago – 1970: Several hundred dollars’ worth of liquor was stolen Monday from the Central Rest and Recreation Club, 513 W. Third St., Chester. Gilbert Waples,
75, manager of the club, said he discovered the burglary when he went to clean up. Waples said the club was closed at 3:20 a.m. Monday. Some $40 in change was taken from the jukebox, $6 from a second floor desk forced open, an undermined amount of cigarettes and change from a cigarette machine, and a public phone was stolen. 25 Years Ago – 1995: Two Strath Haven students, Samantha Kors and Peter Tiberini, will join eight other Delco students from Region 6 in Pittsburgh this weekend for the All-State High School Band, Orchestra and Chorus concert. Kors will be a second soprano in the chorus, and Tiberini will play trumpet with the band. Scott
Litzenberg of Upper Darby High is the Pennsylvania Music Education Association coordinator of district and regional competitions through which the all-state musicians are chosen.
10 Years Ago – 2010: About 40Chester High School students and 50 students Chester Education Foundation’s Reconnecting Youth program planted 35 trees around the high school property Tuesday. The belated Earth Day celebration was part of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society’s Urban Forestry Campus Community Program.