Other Times
100Years Ago – 1921: The Building Committee of the First Presbyterian Church has authorized Clarence W. Brazer, architect, of Chester and New York, to immediately take sub-contracts and estimates for all parts of the work in the new church building. It is the object of the committee to let some of the contracts as soon as possible. The edifice will cost more than $75,000.
75 Years Ago – 1946: Mrs. Margaret Bell Mason, 70, a member of one of Upland’s oldest families, and a descendant of an old Delaware County family, died on Monday at her home,
8Hill St., Upland, after a brief illness. The wife of Averill E. Mason, she had lived all her life in the old home on
Hill Street, the Bell homestead. The history of the Bell family parallels closely that of the Crozer family. 50 Years Ago – 1971: An Aldan man won a $48,000verdict against Delaware County for a back injury resulting from a broken manhole on a Yeadon bridge. A jury returned the verdict Wednesday after a week-long trial. The man, Edmund D. Diamond, 33, sustained two crushed vertebrae, according to his attorney Jack Brian, when his car ran over the manhole cover on the Church Lane Bridge Nov. 8, 1968. Brian said Diamond returned to work in January 1969but has been restricted physically since.
25 Years Ago – 1996: The “Blizzard Brigade” rolled into the city of Chester to help liberate its snowbound residents - and not a moment too soon. “We’re making a lot of progress,” Chester Mayor Aaron Wilson said Friday, taking a short break from overseeing snow-removal operations. “The National Guard has gone in the back, backstreets, the one-block streets where no one has touched.” 10 Years Ago – 2011: When the Chester Democratic Committee endorsed Councilman John Linder as its candidate for mayor, a potentially strenuous situation was born. Linder will spend the next year campaigning to take the position held by the man he must work alongside to keep the city running. After accepting his endorsement Thursday night, Linder said he hoped that he and Republican Mayor Wendell N. Butler Jr. “could continue to handle the business of the city without bias and malice.”