4/30/1968 - Traffic backing up on the Kittanning bridge was a hot topic. Motorists were faced with a closed travel lane because of potholes. They are becoming commonplace as heavy loading increases on the deteriorating concrete of the bridge floor. One way of expediting traffic flow during periods of repair on the bridge would be to keep east-bound traffic making a right turn on Water Street moving during rush hours. Caution lights on all other intersecting streets at the bridge would handle the relatively light traffic in that direction during morning rush hours. Policemen to direct traffic would be necessary in the afternoon. Admittedly the proposal has its drawbacks, but the recurring specter of an east-bound traffic lane stacked up to the Kittanning Highlands demands some remedial action.
4/30/1963 - A Ford City native, James J. Davis, this week opened a new funeral home here in what was formerly the Walter E. Rittenhouse home, North Jefferson Street at Vine, in Kittanning.
4/30/1958 - The old Hohn Schoolhouse near Craigsville, converted some years ago into a five-room home, and the home furnishings were practically destroyed by a $5,000 fire. Mrs. Tari Miller, whose husband died about a month ago, occupied the home, which was owned by Charles Hohn.
4/30/1953 - The coming Ford City Community Picnic at Kennywood Park is an assured financial success after a joint announcement by officials of the Glassworkers Union local here and Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company that each will contribute $1,500 for the event.
4/30/1953 - Federal, state, and county officials together with members of the Templeton Road committee, are scheduled to view the proposed location of a river-level road linking Mosgrove and Templeton.
4/30/1948 - A 500-foot tower to be built on Pittsburgh’s north side will bring television to this area by fall.
4/30/1948 - A tire service shop will open at 401 South Water Street. William Fox is owner and manager of the shop that bears his name.
4/30/1943 - Bond sales in Armstrong County raised the total to $3,172,392.07, leaving only approximately $620,000 to be purchased by 9PM tomorrow, according to the county Second Warn Loan headquarters.
4/30/1943 - At least six district coal mine operations were closed down as strike actions, spreading throughout the Pennsylvania coal fields, caught up with Armstrong County.
4/30/1938 - A dedication service Sunday afternoon will signal completion of Cherry Lane Mission Chapel, south of Apollo. The chapel replaces a structure destroyed in the Kiskiminetas River flood of March 18, 1936,
4/30/1938 - Three one-time soldiers who were the blue in behalf of the Union, answered taps in the late April, depriving Kittanning, Punxsutawney and Tarentum of their last surviving Civil War veterans.
4/30/1930 - “Buster” Dickerson, a colored man employed on Lock and Dam No 8, was arrested on the job last evening by Deputy Sheriff Reese. Dickinson was equipped with a canteen from which he dispensed drinks of moonshine to men on the dam. When arrested, the canteen was found about half-filled with moonshine. He was arraigned before Justice of the Peace Frank M. Wray this morning and in default of bail of $1,000, was sent to the county jail to await the disposition of his case in court.
4/30/1930 - The many friends of R.A. Steim, former well known Kittanning hotel man, are glad to learn that he is able to be up and around in his home on North McKean Street today following a sudden attack of acute indigestion with which he was seized on North Grant Avenue near the depot yesterday afternoon. Mr. Steim’s daughter, Miss Marie Steim, suffered a fracture of her left arm near the shoulder in a fall down the steps of the rear porch of her home in her anxiety to meet her father just after she learned he had been taken ill and was being brought home.
4/30/1930 - The first of a fleet of eight large barges being built for the Allegheny River Sand Corporation’s plant at Reesedale was launched yesterday afternoon. The workmen have been engaged on the construction of those barges for the past two months. They are 16 by 90 feet and built of fir and oak. Each one weights approximately 54 tons. The sticks of fir lumber were 90 feet in length and shipped from state of Washington at $90 per stick. A number of persons from this neighborhood gathered on the banks of the creek Tuesday afternoon to see the first one, “The Speedwell” launched. The second will be known as the John Quincy Adams and will be put into the water next week.
4/30/1928 - William Katx has purchased the Kittanning Meat Market on Market Street and will reopen the business under the name of Valley Meat Market.