Delaware County Daily Times from Chester, Pennsylvania • Page 51

6A Thursday, November 25,1976 DELAWARE COUNTY DAILY TIMES Ederle 'Chester Day' star Kderle, the first woman to swim the English Channel, was a star attraction on -Chester Day" at the 1926 sesquicentennial in Philadelphia. The program of events honoring Chester residents was held Sept. 9 about a month after the 19-year- old swimming sensation had conquered the channel in the record time of 14 hours and 31 minutes, using the American crawl stroke. The date of her swim, in which she bettered the times of five men who had crossed Ithe channel previously, was Aug. 6,1926.

Many countians remember the sesquicentennial. "ITEMS THf BfST AJ PRICK YOU CAN AFfOKDI 534 Ave. of the States Chester, Pa. Bill BUss Linens Halston Linens Yves St. Laurent Fieldrest Linens and Towels Hanes Stockings and Underwear Carolina Candles Mary Quant Paper Cutie Pies Cards Hoffert's Candy Pottery Craft Pottery MtH'S TOIUrtffS Devil's Potion Brut English Leather Musk Wind Drift Pierre Cardin Old Spice Black Tie Chantily Farouche Carbet Bubble Bath Essance Rave Jantue Novell L'Amant Nuance Chanel No 5 Heven Sent Masumi Windsong Daisy Aviance Fresh Lemon Charlie Nina Rice; HOME DELIVERY ORDER Big event in 1919 Chester's National Guardsmen The photo was loaned to the Daily Times by participate in a gala liberty parade along Howard (Pats) Burke, former star fullback what is now 9th Street.

The parade was a for the Lloyd A. C. football teams. big event in Chester in the summer of 1919. Post-riders delivered first county newspaper The Delaware County Daily Times wasn't the first newspaper in the county.

The Post-Boy, so named because it was delivered by post-riders, appeared in Chester Nov. 8, 1817, almost 60 years ahead of the first issue of the Times. It was a weekly newspaper edited by Steuben Butler and Eliphalet B. Worthington and was printed at the old Colbourn House on Third Street, directly opposite Brown's Hotel. T'he newspaper carried no local news and might just as well have been published in Philadelphia, Boston or New York.

After several months, a single local item appeared. It was about a six-pound eel being caught in Chester Creek by two men identified only as Sutton and Burk. The Post-Boy was sold in 1824 to Joseph M. C. Lescure, who changed the name of the paper to the Upland Union.

The newspaper finally ceased publication Feb. 19,1861. Another early newspaper in Chester was The Weekly Visitor, established in 1828 by William Russell and edited by S. N. Palmer.

But it opposed Andrew Jackson and folded in 1832 when Jackson's victory made its views unpopular. Y. S. Walter bought the printing press and other equipment of The Weekly Visitor and established The has unknown soldier Like Arlington, Delaware County also has an unknown soldier buried in its midst. A veteran of the Civil War, he was buried in the graveyard of the Lima United Methodist Church, Middletown, more than 110 years ago.

A small slab of granite with the inscription "An Unknown Soldier" marks the burial site near an old cedar tree. The grave was discovered many years ago by Thomas P. Kelly, then the registrar of graves in Delaware County, and L. H. Andrews, one of his administrators, during a survey of county cemeteries.

Years of research by the church have failed to shed any light on the soldier's identity, according to Glenn E. Stevick, a church member who has directed much of the research. Delaware County Republican in Darby Aug. 30, 1833. The newspaper followed Whig principles, later changed its name to The Morning Repuublican and was published as a daily in Chester until 1923, when it was bought out by the Chester Times, now The Delaware County Daily Times.

In 1835, the Delaware County Democrat was founded in Chester by Caleb Pierce, who had been one of the city's earliest postmasters. The newspaper merged in 1877 with The Democratic Pilot, which had been established five years earlier by William Orr. A number of newspapers began appearing in Media in the 1850s, one of the most successful being The Delaware County American, which appeared initially March 1, 1855 as The Media Advertiser. Chester's first daily newspaper was The Chester Evening News, founded June 1, 1872, by F. Stanhope Hill, and ceased publication in 1904.

It was strongly Republican in tone. The Chester Daily Times was founded Sep. 7, 1876, later was changed to the Chester Times and eventually became The Delaware County Daily Times. Besides the Chester Times, the only other daily newspaper Chester has had since The Morning Republican closed in 1923 was The Chester Reporter, which was published as a five- day-a-week daily beginning Dec. 1,1941, following a strike against the Chester Times.

It was strictly a temporary newspaper and was discontinued following settlement of the strike Aug. 31, 1942. Other newspapers in Chester's history have included: The Chariot, 1842; The Owl, 1848; Chester Herald, 1850; The Evening Star, 1857; The Chester Advertiser, 1866; The Independent, The Delaware County Mail, 1872; The Temperance World and the Chester World, 1877; The Business Mirror, 1882; The Brotherhood, 1833; The Sunday Morning Advocate, 1884; South Chester News, 1883; Plain Speaker, 1883; The Globe, 1880; Chester Academy Record, 1891; Our Endeavor, 1890; The Sun, 1902; Chester Compass, 1917; La Liberta, 1921; Progressive Weekly, 1935; Chester City News, 1941. Of the many weekly newspapers which emerged in Spring comes early at Villa nova University. Register now as a part-time undergraduate in the spring semester.

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