Days Gone By
100 Years Ago, 1923: The job printing department of the Chester Times plant, Press of Chester Times, has recently installed Monotype type rule, lead and slug caster, with the object of creating better job printing work for its patrons. The Monotype casting machine is a complete automatic type foundry, producing type, borders, and spacing material of any size from fivepoint to thirty-six point; also rules, leads and slugs at a speed that makes it cheaper to cast everything new than to distribute the types set for the various jobs of printing, thus giving to each customer brand new type faces on each job; for, when the work is printed, it is in its own new dress. After your job is printed, the type is not used again, but is re-melted for casting.
75 Years Ago, 1948: The deadline has passed and all pictures and information has been received for the special Leap Year section that will be published in tomorrow’s editions of the Chester Times. Delaware Countians responded wholeheartedly to the idea and wrote and telephoned their items to the paper, with many coming in personally. Scores of names will be published with the article, and it will be illustrated with more than 50photographs of persons born on Feb. 29.
50 Years Ago, 1973: A car belonging to Principal John Sharkey of the Old Forge School, 468 N. Middletown Road, Middletown Township, was stolen from the school parking lot Monday night by three men who drove the vehicle through Edgmont and Thornbury, knocking down mailboxes and damaging lawns. State Trooper Edward Bowers today said the car apparently was stolen between 8:309:30 p.m. while a PTA meeting was in progress in the school.
25 Years Ago, 1998: Chester City Council yesterday authorized the building of a city-owned swimming pool in Memorial Park, diverting $650,000 in federal Community Development Block Grant funds to pay for the facility. The pool will be located on the Ward Street side of the park. “”We intend to do everything we can to get this pool built as soon as possible,” said City Councilwoman Willie Wells, director of parks, who pushed for the pool’s construction. 10Years Ago, 2013: Common Pleas Court Judge James F. Proud took swift action on the most current Third Street Dam/Bridge litigation. His ruling, issued Feb. 25, revoked the stipulation and order of May 26, 2011, regarding design of the closed span’s reconstruction.
The judge’s order puts the three parties — Media Borough, Broomall’s Lake Country Club and Delaware County — back at the table to try crafting a new agreement.