Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1921:
The local Board of Education at its meeting last month decided that due to the overcrowded conditions existing at the high school that no additional out-oftown pupils be admitted for a period of time, the order effecting children in several boroughs and townships adjoining Chester. The directors at the regular meeting held in the Larkin building modified this action and approved a plan to admit these pupils sent to the high school by three townships of Bethel, Upper and Lower Chichester, in addition to those of Nether Providence, Parkside, Mary Hook, Upland, Trainer and Eddystone.
75 Years Ago – 1946: Chester was in the grip of its worst diphtheria outbreak in recent years today as another case of the disease – seventh to strike the city since Feb.
18 – closed St. Michael’s Parochial School and resulted in an emergency supply of toxin/anti-toxin being rushed here from Harrisburg. The serum was dispatched by state health officials on receipt of a wire from city authorities when it was learned that the local supply was dangerously low.
50 Years Ago – 1971: Delaware County commuters to Philadelphia may find themselves without transportation Monday morning.
Members of the Transport Workers Union Local 235, representing 5,200 drivers and maintenance employees of the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority, said they will strike at 12:01a.m. Sunday if an agreement is not reached on a new contract.
25 Years Ago – 1996: One of Pennsylvania’s oldest English Quaker homes is marking its 300th anniversary, and the occasion is not going unnoticed. The Thomas Massey House, Lawrence and Springhouse roads, was built in 1696 by an indentured servant who came to America 13 years earlier. The event is being honored throughout the year by festivities organized by the Marple Newtown Historical Society and Massey House Board.
10 Years Ago – 2011: The discovery of more than
16,000square feet of asbestos-filled ceiling tiles at the now-vacant Ardmore Avenue Elementary School in Lansdowne will add
$33,000 to the $16 million renovation project. The tiles were discovered by demolition crews taking apart ceilings in a circa-1966 wing of the school. Students are temporarily attending classes at the former St. Joseph School in Collingdale.