Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1921:

Forty-seven prisoners were placed under arrest on Saturday night and yesterday afternoon in two raids conducted by the detectives of the Chester Police Department acting under the recent edict of Mayor Ramsey. The places raided were the second floor of 213 Market St., and a hall at Eighth Street and Morton Avenue. The proprietor, was fined $50and costs, while others were fined $3 and costs. He is alleged to have remarked before the raid that he did not mind the police as he was being protected.

75 Years Ago – 1946:

The high school basketball season reaches its climax tonight with the opening of the week-long 24th annual Holstein Harvey Fields Memorial Basketball tournament, sponsored by the Chester Kiwanis Club, at the Chester Vocational Gym, Eighth and Fulton streets. Lansdowne and Eddystone high schools will open the tournament action in a first round game. The Smedley Junior High School and Chester High Freshman teams will play a preliminary game at 7:30.

50 Years Ago – 1971:

Cheyney State College, as well as other statesupported colleges, will be forced to close soon if the $2.2 billion appropriation bill passed Friday by the House is not signed by Gov. Milton J. Shapp. Cheyney Business Manager Norrece Jones said business managers of the

14 colleges were called to Harrisburg early this week and informed of the state’s financial problem.

25 Years Ago – 1996: The big men came to play and Chester High is headed back to District One’s Class AAAA big dance. Garrett McCormick and Tyran Watkins teamed for 23 points, 15 rebounds and two blocked shots last night as the top-seeded Clippers ran past Plymouth-Whitemarsh, 65-45, at a sold-out Palestra. It sets up a return engagement with Lower Merion in Friday night’s District

One championship game at Villanova’s duPont Pavilion. “We’re after a goal and now they (Kobe Bryant and the Aces) are in our way,” Chester coach Fred Pickett said.

10 Years Ago – 2011: As the owner of the 13-acre estate of late former state Sen. Clarence Bell, Widener University is seeking financial support that would allow the college to team up with Upland to transform the site to provide new services and opportunities to the community. Widener University President James Harris recently came before borough council to discuss some of the possibilities.