Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1918: Memorial Day, the most solemn since the days of ’61, was fittingly celebrated in Chester yesterday. Despite low-cast skies, the streets were lined with crowds eager to see the parade of the various organizations in honor of the few remaining veterans of the Civil War. With the passing of the few remaining members of the Grand Army of the Republic who now number less than half a hundred in this vicinity, untold thousands of veterans of the raging world war will for generations to come be revered together with the gallant boys of ’61.
75 Years Ago – 1943 :In one of the biggest roundups in years of drunks and disorderly persons, Chester police over the weekend arrested 57 men who were lodged in the 24 cells in the police station. On orders of Police Chief George J. Feeney, Sgt. Carl Peterson and his vice squad, started up with the police patrol wagon and made a round of the city on Saturday night and through Sunday. The roundup will repeated every weekend, Feeney said.
50 Years Ago – 1968: A 21-year-old Broadmeadows prison inmate, who died Wednesday in CrozerChester Medical Center, Upland, suffered from a lung condition caused by sniffing spot remover at the county prison. At least
four other inmates have admitted sniffing the spot remover, which contained carbon tetrachloride, a county detective said.
25 Years Ago – 1993:
U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon, R-7, believes President Clinton sold the country down the river for peanuts. Weldon, who voted against the president’s economic-reform package this seek, said deals were cut with Democrats on everything from banning peanut imports to an $80 million inner-city job training experiment. “Five or six Democrats represent the largest peanut areas in the country, and that’s how he got some of their votes,” he said. 10 Years Ago – 2008: The Delaware County District Attorney’s office will be adding two detectives to investigate white-collar crime, thanks to a $250,000 state grant designed to thwart illegal slot-machine operations. The grant falls in the fifth round of approvals by the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board under a $5 million annual grant program developed and approved by the Legislature as part of the Pennsylvania Race Horse Development and Gaming Act. Funding comes from revenues generated from licensed slot-machine facilities.