Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1924 » With appropriate ceremonies yesterday afternoon at 2 o’clock, the American flag recently presented by the Washington Kiwanis Club to the Chester Kiwanis Club was unfurled at the Penn Monument, Front and Penn streets, in the presence of several hundred patriotic citizens. The members and guests of the club, members of Sergeant Alfred Stevenson Post, 190, American Legion, and the Chester Troop of Boy Scouts, grouped about the monument, were photographed preceding the formal ceremonies. The presentation was made by George Winslow of the Washington, D.C., Kiwanis Club.
75 YEARS AGO, 1949 » Gov. James H. Duff flayed communism in a stirring speech to 450 brother Freemasons assembled at the Masonic Temple Wednesday night to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the foundation of Chester Lodge No. 23, F&AM. The governor warned his listeners not to ignore the utterances of Stalin in his “Reflections on
Leninism” as Hitler’s pronouncements had been ignored. “Stalin, in his book, sets out item by item what communism means,” said the speaker. “He writes, ‘Communism and democracy cannot both exist in the same world. There must be bloody clashes till democracy is destroyed in today’s world.’”
50 YEARS AGO, 1974 » A 75-ton internal component of a nuclear reactor will start an arduous 66-mile trip early Monday from Chester to Limerick, Pa. The trip will be from Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company’s plant to the Philadelphia Electric Company’s proposed atomic energy plant in the village east of Pottstown, Montgomery County. The component will be hoisted onto a huge low-bedded trailer rig for an expected two-day trip. The trip for big loads normally takes 12 hours.
25 YEARS AGO, 1999 » Brookhaven residents will soon have a new Italian restaurant in town. That’s what Walter Konyk, representing the owners of Cambridge Square Shopping Center, told council at Monday night’s workshop. Cafe Roma — an upscale Italian restaurant specializing in veal, steak and chicken dishes — plans to open this spring in the former Konyk Bros. Real Estate office in Cambridge Square Shopping Center on Route 352. Plans show several Roman columns and archways in the 1,500-square-foot building.
10 YEARS AGO, 2014 » The community group that fought to save art programs at Upper Darby School District two years ago now seeks to better education across the state. Save Upper Darby Arts announced Monday that it has created a political action committee to advocate for high-quality public education throughout Pennsylvania. ‘We’re open to (any candidate) who cares about restoring the billion dollars in budget cuts and enacting a fair funding formula,’ said founder Colleen Kennedy.