Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1920: From Germany comes a letter from a Chester soldier boy, who says he is lonely and desires to receive letters from some lonely Chester girl. “Editors Chester Times: I am a lonely slider from Chester, Pa., and I wish you would please advertise in your paper for a lonely girl who would care to write a lonely solider who is with the American Forces in Germany. Will give any information of myself you wish to know. I thank you. Hoping to hear from you or some nice lonely girls. I remain, Yours in despair, Pvt. Melvin C. Sears, C.H., 50th Infa., A.E.F., Neidermendig, Germany.”
75 Years Ago – 1945: A 28-yearold “phantom” burglar who robbed Chester and Delaware County homes of more than a quarter million dollars’ worth of jewelry and cash in the last two years, was fighting desperately today to balk extradition from Ohio. Captured in Cincinnati by a squad of heavily-armed detectives Saturday night after one futile attempt to draw a pistol from his belt, this once-dapper gunman confessed immediately to over 30 robberies in Ohio. This, police said, was an obvious move to stand trial there instead of in Pennsylvania, where he is also under incitement for shooting a plainclothesman early last month.
50 Years Ago – 1970: Scott Paper Co. will build a six-story $10.5million office building at its corporate headquarters on the Industrial Highway in Tinicum. The building will be Scott’s current six-story headquarters building and a two-story research and engineering building.
25 Years Ago – 1995: The Upper Darby School Board adopted a $75.9 million tentative budget, up 6.2 percent, with millage at 493 mills, up 29mills. “This community sends
$25 million to Harrisburg and gets $11 million back,” said Superintendent Joseph Batory.
10 Years Ago – 2010: The investigation into three separate attempted adductions of township students between April 26and this week is being treated as “top priority,” Police Chief Daniel Ruggieri told Aston commissioners. The incidents ranged from Mount Road to Northley Middle School. Ruggieri said the police department and Penn-Delco School District have been working closely to ensure that timely information is disseminated to parents, and extended appreciation to district Superintendent George Steinhoff’s work.