6/27/1968 - A band concert is scheduled for tonight at the Jefferson Street Playground band shell at 8PM, according to Mrs. Virginia Easley, recreational director of Kittanning’s Summer Playground Program. The concert is sponsored by Kittanning Borough Council and is the first of five performances. Gerald Shuster, council recreational chairman, is expected to address the opening concert.
6/27/1963 - Legislation is in the Pennsylvania House that would require free school transportation for private and parochial school students. The bill would affect 125,000 students and hike the state’s transportation subsidies by $1.8 million per year.
6/27/1963 - It was estimated that 1,500 persons lined Main Street in Worthington to watch the Farmer’s Parade last night, held in conjunction with the town’s centennial celebration. There were 50 entries including a 1924 tractor, hand-operated milling machine, Model T Fords and other antique cars, and numerous pony and horse-drawn vehicles. Earl Cornman had the oldest automobile entered - a 1924 Buick touring car.
6/27/1958 - Merger of the Graff-Kittanning with the Logan Clay Products Co. of Logan, Ohio, was announced by Barton A. Holl, president of Logan.
6/27/1958 - Richard M. Graff, Worthington, will remain as general manager of the plants he has bossed for more than 30 years, following the merger today of Graff-Kittanning Clay Products Co with an Ohio concern.
6/27/1958 - Miss Margaret Shubert, a teacher in the Ford City public system for 42 years, has resigned.
6/27/1953 - A five-year-old Punxsutawney girl was killed and her playmate injured when the two children were struck by a run-away U. S. Mail truck. She was a granddaughter of Mr. & Mrs. John Snyder of Dayton.
6/27/1953 - A steel barge loaded with 875 tons of coal sank into the Allegheny River at Ford City this morning after a hole was torn in its bottom on a trip down river. Ship Captain Glenn Frost said the barge began leaking near Manorville after striking a rock.
6/27/1953 - Total attendance at three Kittanning playgrounds this week was 1,111 according to a report made by Playground Director James Rearic.
6/27/1938 - William Conley of Philadelphia has purchased the remainder of the general stock of James McCullough and Son, a Market Street hardware firm which is going out of business.
6/27/1933 - Crews will enter the Mohican mine of Allegheny River Mining Company at Furnace Run to begin clean-up work preparatory to re-opening of the shut-down mine.
6/27/1933 - Eggs were quoted as selling at 11 cents a dozen and butter at 10 cents a pound on the wholesale market.
6/27/1928 - Alfred F. Luke has purchased the house of Mary E. Bowser on Johnston Avenue in Kittanning.
6/27/1928 - Rev. W. Norman Liddy, wife and family were formally welcomed at a reception to leadership of First Baptist Church.
6/27/1928 - Edward J. Guthrie, 57, died at the home of his sister, Mrs. A. S. Shakely of Reynolds Avenue, Kittanning. He had been married just two weeks ago.
6/27/1923 - Work has been started on a new concrete sidewalk around the Methodist Church property in Kittanning.
6/27/1923 - A grill room was opened at the Alexander Hotel in Kittanning.