Other Times
100Years Ago – 1918: While in a dazed condition, a city man from the 900block of West 11th Street, during a short visit an involuntary guest of the city hall police authorities, fell and received a possible fracture of the hip. The 54-year-old man had gotten melancholy as a result of the gloomy weather and was determined to forget his troubles. In the goodness of their heart the police took the man in out of the rain, since he found it very hard to navigate in the storm, and the man took it upon himself to fall in city hall, where he had anchored safely. He is now in the Chester Hospital.
75Years Ago – 1943: Delaware County’s Second War Loan Drive is nearing one-fourth of its total despite the fact that the drive has only entered its third day. Twenty percent of the quota was subscribed at the end of the first day’s sale, and returns for yesterday’s sales, while not yet totaled, indicate a substantial increase. Reports are pouring in from subdivisions through the county, and the officials of the drive said today they are confident the one-quarter mark has been passed.
50 Years Ago – 1968: A 20-year-old Chadds Ford youth was arrested in his home Friday afternoon after police found a paper bag allegedly containing two or three ounces of suspected marijuana and an amount of poppy seeds. Two federal and two state narcotics agents and two Delaware County detectives raided the home on Route 1, Birmingham Township. The man is married and has a young child.
25Years Ago – 1993: Delaware County Council approved a $1a month charge for every telephone line in the county to help defray the $7.8 million cost of its new 911emergency system. The new charge should appear on May’s Bell of Pennsylvania bills. There are about 290,000 phone lines in the county. Bell gets to keep 1.5 percent of the new dollar as a collector’s fee, along with an additional one-time payment of $160,000for setting up the collections process.
10Years Ago – 2008: An 8-year-old student at Ardmore Avenue Elementary School in Lansdowne will not face criminal charges for bringing a gun to school, officials said. William Penn School District officials could not say for certain what disciplinary action would be imposed. The nine-shot Harrington and Richardson .22-caliber revolver was not loaded. It showed signs of deterioration. It was rusted. It is unknown if the gun is a functioning gun. At no time was any student in danger.