There are relatively few cases of mental indigestion. The brain is seldom overworked like the stomach!
7/25/1968 - An old-fashioned concert will take place at 7:30 PM tonight at Ford City Borough Park. The Ford City High School Band under the supervision of William Dryfield will play a program of marches and popular numbers. Dryfield said the purpose of the concert is to allow students to display what they have practiced during the summer months. The band has won several first prizes in marching competitions this summer.
7/25/1968 - Charles Gray, a Ford City RD3 resident, has taken up duties as Bethel Township’s first part-time patrolman, supervisor Margaretta Reed said today. Gray is employed at West Leechburg plant of Allegheny Ludlum Steel Co.
7/25/1968 - Ford City police arrested six Ford City juveniles for a series of burglaries at the Ford City High School building during the past two months. The six allegedly removed $35 in cash from janitor’s desk and $125 worth of athletic equipment, basketballs, baseballs, and basketball shoes from the athletic office. The youths gained entrance into the building and rooms with the use of master jeys. One boy removed master key from the desk of a janitor and had duplicates made.
7/25/1963 - Mrs. Mary Stitt, teacher of trainable children at the Day Care Centre in Kittanning for the past 6 years, has accepted a similar position in Bucks County School System.
7/25/1963 - The Yellowdog 6, a Dixieland swing band from Worthington, was an award winning participant in last night’s firemen’s parade in Avonmore.
7/25/1958 - The Kittanning Firemen’s Band took 3rd place in the Saxonburg parade, losing to Sandy Lake and North Braddock.
7/25/1958 - Kittanning School Director Alfred T Suckling will be amongst thousands of school directors from all sections of the Commonwealth who will be attending the PA School Directors Association’s Summer Conference in Indiana.
7/25/1958 - Ford City- Ford City now has reestablished its fish aquarium at the corner of 4th Ave and 10th St on Borough Building property.
7/25/1953 - Rev Charles E Strater, new pastor of Woodward Avenue First Church of God, will deliver his first messages here tomorrow in morning and evening worship services.
7/25/1953 - Frederick Held, Armstrong County’s oldest resident, will turn 101 on Monday.
7/25/1953 - Cowansville youth enters professional boy scouting. Eugene H Moore to begin schooling next week, with 12 yr background.
7/25/1938 - Plans for a new $60,000 consolidated schoolhouse have been authorized by Gilpin Twp school directors.
7/25/1938 - With a large number of former members from widely scattered points, an impressive cornerstone laying ceremony was performed in North Buffalo Twp. The service marked start of construction of a new West Glade Run Presbyterian Church. The former house of worship was leveled by fire in February.
7/25/1933 - Glade Run Presbyterian Church in Dayton will celebrate the 125th year of its existence in the week of 30 July-6 August. Religious services and appropriate ceremonies will be conducted by ministers and friends of the church over a wide radius.
7/25/1933 - Thomas H Gray, 37, a former well known golf professional one, died Monday at the home of Alex Hilton in Hadley, Mercer County, following a long illness.
7/25/1928 - Edward Heilman, well known farmer who lives in Ford City RD one, was thrown down and run over by a wagon in his hay field. He suffered a pelvis fracture and bruises.
7/25/1928 - The annex of the county courthouse is now under roof, the last concrete having been poured Wednesday.