5/24/1968 – The Kittanning Telephone Company expects to be serving the area exclusively with private or two-party lines within the next five years. President T. A. Weeter made the prediction yesterday during remarks at the Chamber of Commerce luncheon. The phone company employs 148 persons with payroll in excess of $800,000 per year. It was originally capitalized with only $4,000. Gross revenue from 30,181 subscribers exceed $2.5 million.
5/24/1968 – Redbank Valley High School graduation may take place without vocal music following differences of opinion expressed at school board meeting. Vocal music instructor Gary Matthews was docked in pay when he took off because his wife was admitted to the hospital. Directors refused to restore his pay, so Matthews is refusing to not show up for commencement exercises, where he was scheduled to direct vocal groups and for which school officials admitted he has not been paid in the past.
5/24/1963 - Kittanning High School’s new foreign exchange student will feel right at home here- if next winter is as severe as the one just past. She is 18 year old Gerd Kristiansen, who comes from the northernmost part of Norway, well within the Arctic Circle and slightly north and east of Iceland.
5/24/1958 - Judge J. Frank Graff and Clyde Shoemaker permitted entry into court records evidence of findings on a “brain wave” test given to John Clarence Markle, 39, accused shotgun slayer of his wife Ruth on February 7 at their Apollo home.
5/24/1958 - Kittanning Borough’s attempt to retain an illegally posted 25mph restriction along Johnston Avenue has met opposition from the State Highways Department.
5/24/1958 - An exceptional number of eastern tent caterpillars are infesting trees and shrubs of Armstrong County this year. The caterpillars are numerous because of past weather conditions and parasites which were beneficial to the insects.
5/24/1948 - West Penn Power Company’s N. McKean Street police yard fire loss said $3,000. Boys believed to have touched off spectacular blaze in creosote-soaked poles.
5/24/1948 - A large tractor-trailer truck went out of control on Indiana Pike Hill, rolled without brakes up S. Water Street here and crashed into 2 eastbound cars on Market Street. 2 people in one of the cars were slightly injured.
5/24/1943 - Dr. Frederick C. Monks, a practicing physician at Kittanning, died Sunday morning in his home on S. Water Street.
5/24/1943 - Mississippi swollen to 40 year record. Heights army sending coats and blankets for 115,000 homeless ones in 6 states.
5/24/1943 - The Elderton community will pay final tribute this week to Sgt. Braden Reed Kaufman, an American soldier who was accidentally drowned May 20 whilst training at Fort Bragg, N.C.
5/24/1938 - Sealed bids will be received by a building committee of the church for a contract for rebuilding West Glade Run Presbyterian Church, destroyed February 9 by a fire.
5/24/1938 - Nearly 2,000 seals signifying perfect attendance in the schools to the county during the 1937-38 school term will be sent out today from the office of Armstrong County superintendent of schools.
5/24/1933 - Preparatory to filling the swimming pool at the rear of the Gates Estate, Union Avenue at N.. Grant, a member of the Watt family said this week a walk to the pool is being constructed, and other minor repairs are being made.
5/24/1933 - A dwelling is being constructed at the rear of the Dosch Service Station, Jacob and S. McKean Street here, for Charles Ruffner of Tarrtown.
5/24/1928 - 116 pupils will be graduated from Kittanning High School at commencement exercises on May 31.
5/24/1928 - Phillip Smith, 10 year old son of Mr. and Mrs. Mike Smith of Cadogan, was drowned yesterday in Glade Run, near Cadogan.