Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1919: The Fourth Street Business Men’s Association has started a movement to make extensive improvements to West Fourth Street, between Market Street and Edgmont Avenue. There are a number of small frame buildings on the street that, the association declares, must soon give way to the march of improvement. These buildings are to be replaced by modern structures for stores and apartments, the owners of the properties all being in accord with the proposition. The association points to the fact that Fourth Street between Edgmont and Market should prove a mighty good business street if the proper buildings were there.
75 Years Ago – 1944: While hordes of stinging mosquitoes swarmed over Delaware County today, about two weeks ahead of their usual invasion, the Delaware County Mosquito Commission called upon the Chester Health Department and police officers to join forces with them to wipe out the breeding places of the pests. One of the worst breeding places for the pests in Chester is the pool at Deshong Park. This pool, however, which he recommended should either be drained or kept fresh with running water, is within the jurisdiction of the Deshong estate and not the city government.
50 Years Ago – 1969: The Chester Order of DeMolay Chapter has been named the world’s best DeMolay chapter for the second consecutive year. A chapter official said the Chester chapter is the only one to have achieved the honor in the international organization’s history. More than 700 attend the chapter’s 10th anniversary banquet in PMC College’s MacMorland Center Saturday, when the award was announced. The competition involves about 2,500 chapters throughout the world.
25 Years Ago – 1994: A citizens’ group that wants Upland to secede from the Chester-Upland School District will have its day in Common Pleas Court on June 20, the court administrator’s office said Friday. Concerned Citizens for the Education of Upland’s Children is attempting to have Upland Borough merge with Penn-Delco. The Rev. Dale Miller, pastor of Upland Baptist Church and vice chairman of the group, has said an informal survey of Upland residents showed that more than
90 percent favored seceding from Chester-Upland School District, the lowest-ranked school district academically in the state.
10 Years Ago – 2009: Upper Darby School District Superintendent Joseph A. Galli Sr. announced Drexel Hill Middle School Principal Jonathan Ross has been nominated for the prestigious 2009 National Distinguished Principal honors. Ross was hired in 1992 by the district as a special-education teacher, named assistant principal in 1998 and has been principal since 2001.