Today in Delaware County history, Dec. 10, 2022

100 Years In the past, 1922: 2 hundred and fifty quarts of “moonshine” gurgled its manner down a drain within the yard of the Court docket Home at Media Friday when Deputy Sheriffs Mark Murtaugh and Michael Trestrail, performing on orders from Sheriff Thomas W. Allison, destroyed “proof” secured in current raids all through Delaware County. “Stills” have been additionally destroyed. Yesterday’s cleanup was below the supervision of Sheriff Allison, who held a courtroom order directing him to eliminate the liquor. Deputy Sheriff Dorothy Ann Harrison emptied the primary jug yesterday. She had saved full knowledge regarding every case.

75 Years In the past, 1947: What the proprietors of Mazza’s Café, at 159 W. Third St., thought at first to be a joke turned out to be the true factor early this morning as three youths,  one armed with a gun, held up the taproom and took greater than $100 from clients’ wallets and a money register. All three of the younger holdup males – two from Chester aged 20 and one from Clifton, N.J., 22 – have been rounded up by police inside an hour after the armed theft. One was captured after a case by Officer James Thomas, one other was picked up in one other taproom and the third gave himself up as he returned to the scene of the crime. All listed their occupations as seamen.

50 Years In the past, 1972: From the Occasions Washington Bureau – A web site on the New Jersey facet of the Delaware County throughout from Chester is being studied as a web site for a significant pure gasoline import terminal for supertankers from gasoline wells in Algeria and elsewhere. The possible developer is Transco Vitality Co., the identical agency which final summer time introduced plans for a naphtha-cracking plant in Higher Chichester which might make 250 million cubic toes per day of artificial pure gasoline.

25 Years In the past, 1997: Foamex Worldwide Inc. says it plans to purchase Crain Holdings Corp., a smaller producer of polyurethane foam merchandise, for $113 million in money and $100 million in debt. The mixed firm would retain the Foamex identify. Foamex employs about 4,600 individuals in North America, together with a complete of 650 in Delaware County at its Linwood headquarters and at a producing plant in Eddystone.

10 Years In the past, 2012: Municipal taxes will rise by about 6.7 % in 2013 if a proposed price range nonetheless being fine-tuned by the Nether Windfall Township Board of Commissioners passes ultimate muster. Final 12 months, the board authorized a tax improve simply shy of seven %, whereas in 2011 there was a hike of 4.97 %.

— COLIN AINSWORTH