Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1923 » Father Neptune permitting, the Alpha Boat Club will tomorrow stage their greatest regatta in years. At a final meeting of the Regatta Committee last night, in conjunction with the monthly meeting of the club, final arrangements were effected, and on paper, the morrow gives promises of providing one of the best days of sport and pleasure that the time-honored organization has provided for many moons.
75 YEARS AGO, 1948 » General business in the Chester industrial area for the month of May broke all peacetime records for that month, according to the monthly business survey of Pennsylvania State College, released today. New peacetime records for the month were made for postal receipts, industrial power sales, telephones, bank debits and factory payrolls, the survey reveals. Motor vehicle sales, however, were 26 under those of a year ago. 50 YEARS AGO, 1973 » Delaware County Judge C. Norwood Wherry has struck down the real estate tax method being used by the Chester Upland School District. The judge ordered school directors to “redetermine” the taxes for the fiscal year that ended June 30 “in such a manner as to equalize the real estate tax burden” among Chester, Upland and Chester Township. Judge Wherry, whose order stems from a suit brought last Aug. 1 and 26 Upland property owners and others challenging the taxing system, also directed that after a proper taxation method is formulated, property owners be given refunds if the taxes they paid were too high.
25 YEARS AGO, 1998 » What goes up… Sometimes comes down. That’s what Robin Truell learned yesterday when the vintage elevator in Chester City Hall stalled between the second and third floors, with Truell inside. Fellow city workers heard her calls for help around 2 p.m. “We don’t know who’s in there, but we heard a lady screaming,” said city inspector Joe Farrell. “We can’t get her out because someone took the key.” About 30 minutes later, an employee of the elevator company arrived with a replacement key, and the mayor’s receptionist was delivered from the wooden closet in the wall.
10 YEARS AGO, 2013 » An Upper Darby woman who claimed she made a “mistake” in smuggling pot into the Montgomery ounty jail for her incarcerated boyfriend might soon be joining her paramour behind bars. The 27-year-old was convicted in Montgomery County Court in connection with a July 15, 2012, incident during which she passed about 13 grams of pot to the father of her child, who was in the county jail in Lower Providence at the time.