Days Gone By
100 YEARS AGO, 1924 »
The Social Service Society, a club of the Dewey Grammar school, Third and Morton streets, conducted a successful bake recently and realized about thirty dollars on the sale. The foodstuffs were donated by the parents of pupils attending the West Side institution. The money raised by this organization is used in assisting sick and needy pupils and wonderful work is being accomplished.
75 YEARS AGO, 1949 »
The veterans memorial park in the West End remains today what it was two years ago — a campaign promise. People continue to use it as a dump, creating headaches for the police force. It’s a chronic offense that has drawn repeated warnings of prosecution for violators. The latest warning came Thursday. Instructions were issued to police to arrest anyone dumping unsanitary material on the 20-acre site. No dumping signs have been posted by the department of health. Just how soon the memorial park, which will be developed on the tract bound by Pennsylvania railroad, Engle, Hayes and Ninth streets, is a highly speculative subject.
50 YEARS AGO, 1974 »
Two jurors were selected Monday as part of the 12-member panel (plus two alternates) which will hear murder charges in the trial of W.A. (Tony) Boyle, once powerful president of the United Mine Workers. The two jurors are Carl J. Christiansen, of Ridley Township, and Mrs. Suzanne Conners, of Haverford Township, a housewife and mother of eight children whose husband owns an auto body shop. Christiansen is employed as a maintenance mechanic by Sun Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co.
25 YEARS AGO, 1999 »
The Delaware County Women’s Commission named Delaware County Common Pleas Judge Maureen F. Fitzpatrick as the recipient of its 1999 Woman of Achievement award. Chester-born singer and actress Ethel Waters, who died in 1977, was inducted into the Women’s Hall of Fame. Fitzpatrick was the first woman in the county to be elected a district justice.
10 YEARS AGO, 2014 »
Before he retired in February 2013, Pope Benedict XVI selected Donna Crilley Farrell to receive the Pro Ecclesia et Pontiface cross, one of the highest papal honors, for her work in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s communications office. Last June when she was presented the award by Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput, who nominated her for the honor, Farrell was working for Independence Blue Cross. Today, the 49-year-old Springfield resident expects to meet Benedict’s successor, Pope Francis, in her latest role as the Archdiocese of Philadelphia’s executive director for the 2015 World Meeting of Families.