Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1923 »
Chester city and Delaware County residents awoke this morning to discover more than an inch of snow covering the ground, which was duly registered as the first snowfall of the season. Varying emotions greeted the appearance of the official sign of winter. Loud whoops of joy on the part of the youngsters were responded to with variously-interpreted grunts from parents, most of whom have lost their affection for the “pretty white” snow.
75 YEARS AGO, 1948 »
A new Code of Ethics between the Chester School Board and the local musicians union appeared a certainty today. By a vote of 5-4 at their Monday meeting the school directors defeated a motion to immediately rescind the present code. However, they unanimously approved setting up a committee to prepare a new code. Then they will break the present agreement and arbitrate a new program with the union. Relations between the school district and the union have been strained since a disagreement over participation of Chester High Band in a firemen’s parade in Reading in October.
50 YEARS AGO, 1973 »
State Rep. Frank J. Lynch (R-164) of upper Darby Wednesday introduced a bill designating the firefly as Pennsylvania’s official insect. “The whole thing started about a month ago when the third graders in Upper Darby’s Highland Park Elementary School sent me letter, a drawing a photocopy page out of an encyclopedia,” Lynch said Thursday night. D.B. Holzworth’s class researched the firefly and pointed out “by coincidence” that the Latin name for one variety of firefly is “Photoris Pennsylvania.”
25 YEARS AGO, 1998 »
If the three-time champion of the world looks to expand his figure-skating excellence, the first place he searches is his heart. Failing that, there is always 701 West Dutton’s Mill Road in Aston. That’s where Elvis Stojko was yesterday afternoon, at the Ice Works Twin Rinks between 452 and Sun Valley High, there to skate an exhibition and to enjoy the Ice Works’ first birthday, the two-time Olympic silvermedalist showed up for something even more valuable. “”This is where,” he said, “”you can just go out and be yourself.”
10 YEARS AGO, 2013 »
If things happen in threes, then Delaware County and the Philadelphia region should be bracing for its third snowstorm of the week today. According to the National Weather Service, the snow is expected to start in the mid-morning and accumulations are expected to be from 1 to 3 inches. This comes on the heels of Sunday’s storm which dumped 8.6 inches on the Philadelphia International Airport and then another storm that dropped 2.2 more inches Tuesday.