Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1921:

Following the announcement of the intended clean-up of unlicensed dogs in the Delaware County district, hundreds of dog owners have applied for license tags in order to escape the costs that result when they face an alderman to plead guilty of keeping unlicensed canines.

75 Years Ago – 1946:

A sudden thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon lashed Chester and Delaware County on the heels of the year’s highest temperature, causing several fires, sending trees crashing into the streets, overturning a sailboat in the Delaware River and injuring several persons. The temperature at noon yesterday was 90, the highest the mercury has gone this year. However, it dropped rapidly as high winds heralding the approach of the 20-minute downpour sent hundreds scurrying for shelter.

50 Years Ago – 1971:

Everyone wanted the glamor states and few went rushing for the unknown states at the drawing for state sponsorship Friday night at the Chester Bicentennial Headquarters. Seventy persons, most of them representing retail firms which provided $150 each for sponsorship of states, attended the goodhumored drawing in the headquarters office, 415 Avenue of the States. The sponsors will participate in flag-raising ceremonies each week at the Old Chester Courthouse.

25 Years Ago – 1996:

U.S. Rep. Curt Weldon,

R-7, was only about a block away from his Aston home Monday night when someone apparently shot a BB or pellet gun at his Chevrolet Blazer, shattering the driver’s side window, his aide reported yesterday. Another episode of vandalism - he’s had his cars broken into in both Washington and Philadelphia in the past - didn’t deter Weldon from driving his sport utility vehicle to his Washington office minus a window. Weldon wasn’t injured and doesn’t believe he was intentionally targeted.

10 Years Ago – 2011:

Lauren E. DeVita of Wallingford, Nether Providence, was named an Outstanding Senior by the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Widener University, School of Business Administration; Fletcher Gelber, son of Laurie Grant of Rose Valley, recently participated in Salisbury University’s community service project, “The Big Event.” During the project, hundreds of SU students helped university neighbors with household chores.