Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1923 » George Furlong, an officer of the Patriotic Order Sons of America, Camp No. 281, has complained to the police in connection with the custom of drunken men entering their building, Malta Hall, Third and Reaney streets. This practice has become obnoxious to the members and a stop will be put to it at once. A plain clothes man has been stationed in the neighborhood and any further nuisances committed will be dealt with severely.
75YEARSAGO,1948» Norwood Borough has been ordered by the State Sanitary Water Board to stop discharge raw sewage into Munckinipattus Creek. At the same time, the board gave the Munckinipattus Creek Authority the green light to dump the untreated sewage of six municipalities in Darby Creek, within the borough of Norwood.
50YEARSAGO,1973» Mrs. Lucia Bruni, 77, of Upper Chichester, the widow of an Italian-born, World War I prisoner of war, fulfilled her husband’s wishes by becoming an American citizen Wednesday night. “My husband wanted me to get it (naturalized),” Mrs. Bruni said. Emidio Bruni died last May at 84 after 57 years in this country. A major factor that motivated Mrs. Bruni to seek citizenship was a citation sent to her last July from President Richard M. Nixon honoring her late husband for “devoted and selfless” service in the U.S. Army.
25YEARSAGO,1998» Ridley Township commissioners are trying to come up with the purrfect solution for dealing with the township’s stray cat problem. An ordinance was drafted but scrapped by commissioners before a public forum held last week. Although the ordinance had been tabled for consideration prior to the forum, commissioners allowed Folsom resident Barbara Shustock to voice her objections to proposed regulations, questioning whether her cat could be picked up as a stray by the traps called for in the ordinance.
10 YEARS AGO, 2013 » The Riddle Ale House stands surrounded on three sides by the behemoth 58 acres of the Granite Run mall property, which was recently sold to a developer that plans substantial changes. But owner Arnold Pompei said he has no intentions of giving up his family owned business. “They wanted to know if there was any interest in me selling,” Pompei said of a phone call from the mall’s new owners. The Riddle Ale House has stood on West Baltimore Pike since 1962, predating the Granite Run Mall by about 12 years. It was opened by Pompei’s father, and Arnold took over in the late 1970s.