Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921: Revenue Collector James F. Desmond is in receipt of all the necessary forms which residents of Delaware County will use from the beginning of next week to March 15, in supporting to the government the extent of their
1920 income and making payment in accordance with the federal law. Arrangements are being made whereby two of the deputies attached to the Chester office will sit at Media and at certain vantage points of the county in order to facilitate the business details and accommodate residents who have not a clear conception of the law on one
question or another.
75 Years Ago – 1946:
Twenty-eight Delaware County graduates of Pennsylvania Military College, in classes from 1897 to 1943, are among the 92 graduates to be awarded honorary Bachelor of Military Science degrees Thursday in the Charles E. Hyatt Armory. They are veterans of
World War II, and four of them served in both World War I and World War II: Lieut. Col. Edmund C. Cramp of Chester, Class of 1916; Col. J. Henry
Pool, ’21; Col. Horace P. Hobbs, ’97; and Maj. Kenneth Waterall, ’16.
50 Years Ago – 1971:
There it stands, almost 14-stories high, a mass of wood and concrete overlooking scenic Ridley Creek. It is an unfinished monument to labor-management relations. The much heralded 27-story apartment complex, which was being built in Chester at an estimated cost of $5 million by Media real estate developer Donald Gaster, has been void of any construction sounds for almost eight months, having only sounds of pickets from the Pipe Trades Union.
25 Years Ago – 1996:
Brookhaven Council President Vawn Donaway last week praised the borough’s public works department for the monumental job they performed during last week’s blizzard. “If there are any heroes in this story it has to be the public works department under the direction of Gary Thompson,” he said. “We’re in pretty good shape, considering that we don’t have the option of dumping the snow in the Schuylkill River, like Philadelphia does.”
10 Years Ago – 2011: The Chester Republican Committee announced Mayor Wendell N. Butler Jr. will run for a third term, Councilman Shepard Garner will seek re-election and Nolan O. Woodland also will run for council.