7/6/1968 – Fire destroyed the home of Robert Johnson, off Wilson Road (Worthington RD2) last night. The two-story frame house was beyond saving, with only one wall standing, when the South Buffalo and Worthington fire companies reached the scene at 8:40 PM. Mrs. Johnson, who was alone at the time in the living room, was taken to the hospital for treatment of shock. Johnson is employed as an artist at WIIC Channel 11, Pittsburgh.
7/6/1968 – Sale E. McClanahan, 51, of Kittanning RD4 was found dead near the wreckage of his truck yesterday nearly 24 hours after the time of the fatal mishap. The body was discovered by a boy who was walking along the scene of the wreck on the nearby Skinall-Center Hill Road.
7/6/1963- R.B. Shannon and Associate ones of Kittanning will be consulting engineers for the National Storage Company’s underground storage project at the former Annadale plant of Michigan Limestone Company at Boyers in Northern Butler County. It will be the 3rd such warehouse facility in the country to be used by the Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare for storage of emergency hospital equipment and medical supplies.
7/6/1963- Miss Arlene Turner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Russell S. Turner of Kittanning RD one, is attending a Lutheran Work Camp program at Church of the Transfiguration in the Harlem section of New York City.
7/6/1953- Charles W. Beatty, 70 year old Elderton resident, died at 5:15 pm Friday in Indiana Hospital as the result of injuries received several hours earlier when he fell from a ladder. He was painting the Owen Boyer home in Elderton when he fell.
7/6/1953- Although holiday traffic did not reach expected proportions on local highways over the weekend, State Police from the Kittanning substation were called to investigate 7 auto accidents.
7/6/1953- Apollo- The 8th annual 4th of July picnic staged at Griftlo Park by members of St James Roman Catholic Church congregation drew an estimated crowd of 2,000 people.
7/6/1948- At the close of the morning worship service in St John’s Lutheran Church, the Church Council announced that it had received and accepted the resignation of the pastor, Rev George N Lauffer, DD.
7/6/1948- A freak lightning bolt struck the home of Charles C Toy, Kittanning RD 3, during a storm Saturday night. No damage was done to the house, which is well rodded, but the bolt chipped cement from the top of the cellar, dug a 2 foot deep ditch in the yard for several yards, circled a cherry tree, and spent itself several yards past the tree.
7/6/1948- Construction work resumed on a score of local dwelling and business units as county carpenters ended a one month strike. A wage increase of 25c an hour which the local contractors granted the carpenters will become effective August one.
7/6/1943- Blood donor volunteers number necessary 1500, additional 100 volunteers wanted.
7/6/1943- Headed downstream, 10 canoes were locked thru Allegheny River Dam #7 in Kittanning during the hard rainstorm Sunday afternoon. The canoes are said to have been manned by a party of Indian ones from the Cornplanter Indian Reservation above Warren.
7/6/1943- The 4th of July weekend- 19 months after Pearl Harbor- saw 86 Armstrong County men leave for the armed service of America.
7/6/1938- Plans have been worked out in detail for a “huge” parade which is expected to attract 60 or more volunteer firemen’s groups from Western PA to Kittanning,
7/6/1938- The borough is going to remove another one of the unwanted monuments to passing of the old West Penn Railways, The Street Dept was authorized to lift rails and repair the paving at the Orr Ave switch.
7/6/1938- In wake of an Independence Day holiday in Ford City in which one youth was placed on a hospital cot injured seriously by a powder blast, another one was threatening arrests after being struck by a thrown firecracker, at least 6 other ones were hurt sufficiently to require physicians’ attention, and a $200 fire was started. A committee of 5 men from Hose Company #1 was ready to ask borough council to ban sale and use of fireworks in Ford City next year.
7/6/1933- A fire of unknown origin destroyed a one car frame garage on the property of Harry Harder, Ridge Ave, Applewold.
7/6/1933-Ford City Town Council banned card playing and ball tossing in the municipal park.
7/6/1928- A barn on the farm of Eugene Ralston of Elderton was destroyed by fire yesterday. 3 horses and 3 automobiles were included in the loss.