Other Times
100Years Ago – 1920: By an arrangement about to be consummated between the incorporators of the Robert H. Crozer, an organization of which George K. Crozer, of Upland, is the head, and the Chester Hospital, this community is practically assured of a magnificent new hospital unit, the fruit of the beneficiaries of the late Robert H. Crozer of Upland. The building will be erected on land to be deeded to the Robert H. Crozer Hospital by the Chester Hospital, facing Penn Street, north of Ninth. It will be operated in connection with Chester Hospital administrators and medical and surgical staff, but will at all times retain its separate individuality as the Robert H. Crozer Hospital.
75Years Ago – 1945: An elderly Chester man and his wife were burned, the latter seriously, and their home at 316 Jeffrey Street was damaged shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday when an oil stove exploded in the dining room. Between the 73-year-old woman and her 80-year-old husband, they tried to carry the stove outside but got no farther than the kitchen with it where the fire started to spread rapidly.
50Years Ago – 1970:
Loss of expected tax revenue, particularly with of the closings of Stubnitz Spring Division Penn Steel Castings Co. plants, will plunge Chester into $90,000 debt by December, Mayor John H. Nacrelli said. This will be the first time the city has finished a fiscal year in the red. He said the figure could exceed $90,000 if the city does not trim programmed expenditures.
25Years Ago – 1995:
Aston commissioners this wee, in a 5-to-1 vote with 1 abstention, formally approved spending $25,000 to purchase the AstonMiddletown ballfield, owned by Sunroc Corp. The board recently approved condemnation of the 4-acre parcel alongside Chester Creek on Route 452. The land, considered a flood plain, was appraised at $25,000. Commissioner George Davis, who abstained from voting, said he was told that Sunroc wants to be paid $25,000 per acre for the land.
10Years Ago – 2010: In the hopes of securing grant money for the project, Upper Chichester commissioners have unveiled plans to add a sidewalk and other modifications along Chichester Avenue. The plans call for the addition of a sidewalk stretching along Chichester Avenue from Larkin Road to Furey Road, as well as landscaping, shade trees, rain guards, curbing and a possible bus shelter.