Other Times
100Years Ago – 1920: Marking the final annual meeting of all Masonic organization in the old building at Fourth and Market streets, Chester, the banquet and get together of Chester Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, was a great success last night and was intended by about 300 members of the fraternity. Mayor William T. Ramsey delivered a decidedly interesting address in which he became retrospective and also pointed out the great things expected for the comfort and pleasure of the Masons of Chester in the handsome new temple at Ninth and Welsh streets, which will be ready for occupancy next September.
75Years Ago – 1945:
With Chester’s worst flu epidemic in 26 years still mounting rapidly and adding scores of new victims to its toll each day, city health authorities today called on parents to back up Friday’s school-closing order by keeping their children away from crowds and out of places of amusements until the danger period is over. Approximately 9,000 public school students and 3,000 parochial pupils are receiving a week’s extra Christmas vacation as a result of the decision to suspend all classes in the city until Jan. 2.
50Years Ago – 1970:
The Chester School Board hurried its long-heralded elementary school lunch program into orbit Monday night on the thrust of a
$145,000 appropriation to foot the bill for enough lunch equipment to service the district’s 12 schools. The board’s action caps off a year-long struggle by the district to formulate, adopt and fund such a program and apparently clears the last hurdle en route to pilot implementation of the plan next month.
25Years Ago – 1995: Two Philadelphia men were arrested on charges of stealing wallets from patrons’ tables at the Old Country Buffet in the Springfield Park Shopping Center.
The men, 24 and 33, were nabbed on Baltimore Pike shortly after the incident about 4:23 p.m. Dec. 7.
10Years Ago – 2010: Delaware County Council on Tuesday adopted a nearly $316 million budget that calls for no tax increase in 2011. The budget holds the line on property taxes at 5.184 mills, though it includes about $7 million more in spending than the
2010 budget that included a 7.4 percent tax bump. Council Chairman Jack Whelan lauded the county budget office and outgoing Court Administrator
Phil Damiani for keeping expenses down.