Other Times

100 Years Ago – 1918:

The new Chester police headquarters on Fourth Street, between Market Street and Edgmont Avenue, will be finished next Saturday. The building is completed with the exception of a few finishing touches. Police will move in by the end of the month. The new quarters will be a considerable improvement over the old station house. The cells are so inviting that it is feared that many will force themselves into arrest in order to have a modern place to sleep for the night.

75 Years Ago – 1943:

While flags fly at half-staff throughout Chester tomorrow, the body of the Rt. Rev. Francis Marion Taitt, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania, will lie in state at St. Paul’s Church. Thousands of the kindly churchman’s friends, members of the church and officials of the diocese are expected to gather in the church where he served as rector for 37 years.

50 Years Ago – 1968:

The Delaware County Aviation Authority has selected a Washington, D.C., engineering firm to pick a site and develop a plan for the county’s proposed general aviation airport, it was learned Friday. Although a spokesman from Thomas Bourne Associates said no contract has been signed, Bourne said there was “no question” his company had a concrete commitment for the authority. He said he would be in Delaware County Monday to begin his preliminary site selection and that it should take only two months to arrive at a site recommendation.

25 Years Ago – 1993:

Angry taxpayers demanding that school boards hold the line have had a greater impact on contract negotiations than the new Act 88 law aimed at reducing the number of teachers strikes, a union negotiator said. “The real impact this time (on contacts expiring this summer, including eight in Delaware County) has been these taxpayer groups. They have boards intimidated to the point where they don’t even want to put proposals on the table,” said Robert Brown, a field director of the Pennsylvania State Education Association.

10 Years Ago – 2008:

Delaware County coffee lovers will have one less place to get their morning jolt. The cutbacks by the Starbucks chain will be felt locally. Company officials Friday identified the 600 stores they are going to shutter. One of them is the java franchise at Granite Run Mall.