Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921: Will the groundhog see his shadow on Feb. 2, which is the day for the little animal to come from under the ground? Perhaps he will and perhaps he won’t, but there is one thing sure, and that is a large number of names of women good and true will be picked from the brand new jury wheel on that day by Sheriff Granger and the jury commissioners to serve their country as jurors, the same as other good and true men.
75 Years Ago – 1946: A middle-aged Chester woman – tired of having her drug store at 931 Madison St. held up – routed the notorious “Flash” bandit with a hatchet and a barrage of packages early Friday night. Disregarding a blue-steel revolver that the coverall-clad thug was pointing at her heart, Mrs. Katherine Hamilton ducked beneath the counter, seized a small hatchet and threw it straight at the astonished youth’s head. It missed and the “Flash” pulled the trigger of his gun, but the cartridge failed to explode.
50 Years Ago – 1971: Joseph L. Eyre will not seek renomination as Delaware County’s Recorder of Deeds in the May primary and may not be a candidate for any other elective office. Eyre, a member of the county’s Republican Board of Supervisors (War Board) and a former Chester mayor, declined comment on speculation he is considering bowing out of public life.
25Years Ago – 1996: Computer thieves were busy taking advantage of the blizzard’s shutdown of schools and businesses by targeting Radnor High School, Fidelity Court office building and Cabrini College, according to Radnor police. Seventeen MacIntosh computers, most of them new, valued between $35,000 and
$40,000, were stolen from the computer lab at Radnor High School and another room Wednesday morning, according to police and Radnor Schools Superintendent Dr. John DeFlaminis.
10 Years Ago – 2011: A new firehouse is in Eddystone’s future, according to a recent report from engineer Charles J. Catania. Catania told council 90 percent of the design plans and specifications are finished and, hopefully, the project will be ready to go out for bids in mid-February to be awarded in March. He estimated completion of the building by the end of 2012. The facility will be built on land on the northern side of Seventh Avenue, west of Saville Avenue, between Eddystone Avenue and Ridley Creek.