Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1924 » A typewriter, money, cigars and tobacco were included in the loot taken by thieves, Saturday and yesterday, five persons reporting to the police that their homes or places of business had been entered. Samuel Shore, of 8 w. Graham St., reported that his store at 115 Edgmont Ave., was entered by someone who took cigars, tobacco and cigarettes valued at $40. Entrance was gained by forcing a window.
75 YEARS AGO, 1949 » The Chester Municipal Authority will spend $7,088.26 to eliminate the “poor pressure pocket” in the vicinity of Fourth and Townsend streets by laying new mains on Fourth Street and on Palmer Street. For many years the A.H. Wirz Inc., collapsible tube manufacturing company at Fourth and Townsend streets, has complained to the CMA that its pressure was dangerously low.
50 YEARS AGO, 1974 » About 25 boys were evacuated from their quarters when fire broke out shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday on the third floor of Cottage Six at Glenn Mills School. The fire “extensively damaged” the third floor, attic and roof, but there were no injuries according to Fred Field, Concordville fire chief, who directed more than 50 firemen from five companies at the scene. School Supt. Harold Novick, said the fire started in the kitchen area of an apartment on the third floor occupied by Mr. and Mrs. John Worall, houseparents at the school for delinquent boys.
25 YEARS AGO, 1999 » Township resident Therese O’Malley was presented with several awards at last night’s Aston commissioners meeting for her outstanding voting record during the past 50 years. O’Malley of Pancoast Avenue has voted in every election except two she missed because she was hospitalized. The commissioners presented O’Malley with a proclamation, followed by County Councilwoman Kathrynann Durham, who gave O’Malley a dozen roses, a resolution and a pewter plate. A representative of U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon (R-7) presented a flag that flew over the Capitol. State Rep. Stephen Barrar (R-160) followed with a state certificate plate from Gov. Tom Ridge.
10 YEARS AGO, 2014 » A group of citizens who are opposed to Swarthmore College’s Town Center West development feel as though they haven’t been heard. They may well yet get a chance to ask questions and voice their opinions about the project’s plans to construct a roundabout on Route 320 that runs along the south side of the campus. “I’ve asked PennDOT to consider a hearing that would involve people other than those that reside in the borough,” said state Rep Joe Hackett, R-161, of Ridley Township.