Days Gone By
100 Years Ago, 1922: Fire was discovered shortly before 1o’clock this afternoon in the chapel of Emmanuel Baptist Church, corner of 15th and Potter streets. Firemen called to the scene extinguished the blaze in quick time by the use of chemicals. Rev. Eric Oesterle, the pastor, said the damage will not exceed $25. An overheated register is assigned as the cause, burning the floor boards about it.
75 Years Ago, 1947: Dr. George C. Webster, of 311W. Seventh St., will be 89 years old on Sunday. The doctor has been practicing medicine in the Chester area for the past 54years. He still has a long list of patients and makes regular calls on them and he is believed to be one of the oldest practicing physicians in this part of the country. Dr. Webster was a good friend and colleague of Dr. Horace H. Darlington, country doctor of Concordville, who died Tuesday night at the age of 90.
50 Years Ago, 1972: Springfield Associates, developers of the Springfield Mall, Baltimore Pike and Sproul Road, have submitted a soil conservation plan to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Resources in the wake of a “cease and desist” order issued by DER that has halted work on the mall. John Daley, chief of enforcement for DER in Norristown, said the construction risks soil erosion and water degradation including, but limited to, Whiskey Run and Crum Creek. 25 Years Ago, 1997: In “Titanic,” the ship is called “unsinkable” and “the largest thing made by the hand of man in history.” They got it half-right. But what about the film? We know James Cameron’s $200 million movie is the most expensive made by the hand of Hollywood in history. The question is whether the film will make millions or sink like “Waterworld,” Kevin Costner’s high-dollar aquatic flop. Judging by the reaction of a handful of people that viewed the 4:10p.m. show yesterday, its opening day at the Granite Run 8 AMC Theater, the movie will not go the way of the luxury liner’s tragic maiden voyage.
10 Years Ago, 2012: The ringing of the silver bell pierced the cold air 26 times outside the Delaware County Government Center on Wednesday morning as county officials paused for a moment to recall the lives lost in the shooting last week at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. On Sunday, county council met with representatives from the Delaware County Intermediate Unit to discuss appropriate actions to take this week and decided to do the name-reading memorial.