Other Times
100 Years Ago – 1919: The government Internal Revenue Officers working here have established the fact that speakeasies are flourishing. The officers believe that several are doing business in Leiperville. On Saturday night, quite a number of persons were seen edging their way through the usual big crowd of shoppers and pleasure seekers who had been imbibing something more powerful than one-half of 1 percent.
75Years Ago – 1944: Construction of the new
$68,000elementary school in Green Ridge, which was held up when the Philadelphia Buildings Trades Union, AFL, called off the workers because the electrical work
was being done by a nonunion contractor – Jesse C. Marshall of Prospect Park, a one-man contractor who has been doing electrical work in Delaware County for 25years – is expected to be resumed on Monday, it was learned this morning. Because of the war-swollen population in Aston Township, the Federal Works Agency granted $51,000 of the costs.
50Years Ago – 1969: Officials of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Delaware County are urging a massive display of the national colors on Veterans Day Tuesday, as a demonstration of support for U.S. military forces in Vietnam. “Let’s put every flag we own on public display to offset the damaging image
presented by the recent antiwar moratorium” said Alfred Mattera, VFW 7th District Commander and member of Herbert W. Best Post 928in Folsom, Ridley Township.
25Years Ago – 1994: A Collingdale company seeking to turn an old cotton mill on
25th Street into a business incubator has questioned the appropriateness of the site’s residential zoning during a Chester City Council meeting. Several small businesses have already expressed interest in leasing space at the site, on the border with Nether Providence and Ridley townships. While Mayor Barbara Bohannan Sheppard pointed out the area is all residential, John McMahon and Doug Wright, principals of Triangle Commerce Center, said the mill has been in
existence for nearly 150years, and predates the surrounding neighborhoods. Therefore, they reasoned the site should be grandfathered-in for business or commercial use.
10Years Ago – 2009: Aston Township volunteer Thomas Sprows was recently named
2009Township Citizen of the Year. Commissioners President Gary Robinson praised Sprows for his dedication to the township and especially for his work as secretary on the Aston Township Veterans Memorial Garden Foundation Committee. Sprows, 65, resided in Aston for 36years prior to moving to Bethel Township in June 2009. He served in the U.S. Air Force as an air policeman from 1963-1967.