One nice thing about the old-fashioned blacksmith - when you brought your horse in to be shod, he didn’t think of 40 other things that ought to be done.
7/27/1968 - A truck driver was critically injured, several other persons hurt, and eight vehicles damaged yesterday afternoon at approximately 5:40 PM when a heavily-loaded truck ran wild down steep West Kittanning Hill during the height of traffic on the Market Street bridge. Carl Crawford, 24, of Bloomsburg, the driver of the truck, suffered injuries of the chest, two fractured legs, and internal wounded. It took firemen almost an hour to extricate him from the shattered cab. Other persons treated were Tom Mauthe, 18, of Kittanning; Donald McIlwain, 53, of Kittanning; Howard Gillette, 44, of Butler injured both legs when he jumped from his truck to avoid a head-on accident with the runaway truck; Richard Walker Sr of Ford City; and Judy Wyant, 29 of Kittanning RD7. Other cars damaged were operated by Harl Bowser of Kittanning; Raymond Bennett, 49, of Kittanning; William Crytzer, 47, of Kittanning RD5; Wilbert A. Beckwith Jr, 34, of Kittanning; Donald J. Grafton, 37, of Kittanning RD3; and Tom Mauthe, 18, of Kittanning.
7/27/1968 - If you’ve scheduled a shopping jaunt to Kittanning today and plan to stop by the Post Office to mail a package or purchase stamps, forget it! The same applies to Ford City, Freeport, Rural Valley, Worthington, and Dayton. Effective today (Saturday), all regular Saturday window service will be discontinued at these offices. The curtailments came in response to a Congressional mandate to cut back Federal employment to the June 30, 1966 level, including 83,238 for postal service nationally and many in this area.
7/27/1963 - Kittanning Lenape Little League All Stars last night put down an Indian 7 Little League championship, by defeating Indiana American ones 5-3. The game took place on the Lenape LL field.
7/27/1953 - The promotion of Loren H Bonnett, Kittanning, to general sales manager of Eljer was announced 25 July to reps during a general sales meeting in Scranton.
7/27/1953 - Members of the Kittanning Church of the Nazarene had an invitation to witness tonight the breaking of ground for their new church building.
7/27/1953 - Armstrong Raceway will thunder to the rumble of nearly 30 late model autos as they are jockeyed around the track in 200 laps of racing.
7/27/1953 - Ford City- 9 bricklayers placed 1150 concrete tile in 6.5 hours yesterday to complete the 4 first floor walls of the Ford City Girl Scout camp main building, along Buffalo Creek near Franklin bridge.
7/27/1948 - The condition of Mrs. Elizabeth Helit, a Cadogan woman who suffered painful burns about the legs when lightning struck the chimney of her home, shows some improvement.
7/27/1948 - Lois Pollock, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dave Pollock of 108 Hazel St, will appear in the play “Our Town” to be given in the amphitheatre in Chautauqua, NY on the evenings of 30 July and Aug. one.
7/27/1943 - Erosion damage caused in Kittanning’s riverfront park by recurring floods of recent years, and the cost of cleaning up scores of homes whose lower levels are inundated by high water, were brought to the attention of an American Engineer Office rep who came here Monday at the invitation of Kittanning Chamber of Commerce for an inspection of the river front.
7/27/1943 - 6 children from Armstrong County ranging in age from 3-12, were committed into the custody of the institutional District of Westmoreland County following investigation by Boyd Richardson, Western PA Humane Society officer in Armstrong County.
7/27/1938 - Another new home is nearing completion on N Water St in the Hudson Sand and Gravel plan of lots. The building, a red brick English Colonial structure, is being built by HE Carrier.
7/27/1938 - A 10 ton trailer van of the Streamline Stores was wrecked on a grade in the Freeport-Kittanning Rd. The driver, Albert W Kersopp of Reading, sustained possible concussion of the brain in an accident at 4:45 pm Tuesday.
7/27/1938 - The Ford City school district expended $156,255.10 for education of Ford City and tuition paying non-resident pupils during the year ending 5 July.
7/27/1933 - Sheriff George W Shaffer is in receipt of a dozen new Bibles, donated to the local jail by the Gideons. The organization’s work in placing a Bible in every hotel guest room is known far and wide.
7/27/1933 - The appt of UG Hobaugh as tax collector for Manor Twp was announced today.
7/27/1928 - Wholesale prices on the local markets today were eggs, 32c a dozen; wheat, $1.50 a bushel; and chickens, 25c a pound.
7/27/1928 - An official notice from the Secretary of War Washington DC, ordering the Kittanning bridge removed within 2 years, as an obstruction to navigation, was served on County Commissioners today.