Daylight Saving Time is founded on the old Indian idea of cutting off one end of the blanket and sewing it on the other end to make it longer.
7/30/1968 - There were some new business faces on Market Street, Kittanning. A one story structure built by hotelman Angie Sgro at 128-130 locations. Village is a colonial front restaurant and bar which Sgro will operate, opening August 1. Hart’s, a home dry goods store, has been at the 130 address several weeks after moving from 240 Market Street. New building climaxes 14 months of negotiation and construction by Sgro, who purchased land after fire which destroyed several businesses.
7/30/1968 - Two men were injured last night as their vehicle crossed the roadway and crashed into a unility pole in the 1600 block of 5th Avenue, Ford City. William F. Eddy, 22, of Kittanning RD1 and WIliam F. Hohl, 22, of Ford City RD1 were taken to Armstrong County Memorial Hospital. Hohl was knocked out of the vehicle. Other motorists stopped and rendered assistance in removing Eddy from the crushed vehicle.
7/30/1963 - The era of the one room elementary schoolhouse in Armstrong County has come to a close. Leonard L Holt, supervising principal of the Dayton Area Joint School System, has announced that Oliver and Goheenville schools, both one room structures in Boggs Twp, will not be opened this September. Students who would normally attend either one of those 2 schools will attend Templeton Elementary School.
7/30/1958 - Matthew A Crawford of 142 Allegheny Ave, Applewold, was elected eastern area vice president of the National Council of American Baptist Men at the National Laymen’s Conference at the American Baptist Assembly, Green Lake, Wisconsin.
7/30/1958 - Retention of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries operatings at Ford City remains the #one goal of Kittanning Chamber of Commerce, Secretary Dan Mash told a service club audience last night.
7/30/1958 - 2 women who were neighbor friends in girlhood are patients in the same room at Pittsburgh Women’s Hospital, Frankstone Ave, and Washington Blvd, where both ones underwent major surgery yesterday. They are Mrs. Robert Kirby of Pleasant View Dr, Ford City, and Mrs. Dawson Schall of Kittanning RD one (Whitesburg).
7/30/1953 - Ford City- School directors postponed action on a proposed field house at the Ford City football field and on a requested cost of living raise for school employees, until a full membership of the board is present.
7/30/1953 - Glassers will stage annual Labor Day parade. Membership appropriates $1000 to help finance celebration activity.
7/30/1948 - A Sugarcreek Twp farmer, William McGarvey of Cowansville RD one, is a patient in the Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, with injuries received when he was kicked by a horse.
7/30/1948 - Parker- The Wightman Bottle and Glass Manufacturing Co’s plant went back into operation Thursday, with all machines in operation. The plant had been closed since 6 June, when a repair program was begun.
7/30/1943 - 2nd Class Seaman Kenneth Bush, son of Mr. and Mrs. WJ Bush of Clinton, was drowned at a naval training station in MD. No details were contained in a telegram which informed the couple of Kenneth’s death.
7/30/1943 - The first birthday of the WAVES, being observed throughout the nation today, finds 8 Armstrong County girls now wearing uniforms of the Woman’s Reserve of the American Naval Reserve. They are Elizabeth Ann Bowser, Mary Muriel Brennan, Anita Jane Dodds, Beatrice June Moesta, Ivy Irene Stubrich, all of Kittanning; Marjorie E Steele of Apollo; Marion I Barrett of Dayton RD one; and Eleanor B Brown of Ford City.
7/30/1938 - The cornerstone laying ceremony for the new West Glade Run Presbyterian Church in North Buffalo Twp last Sunday afternoon was old news to one audience member. Curt Fullerton, 84, from that section, had observed 3 such ceremonies at the same site in the past 71 years.
7/30/1938 - Kittanning High School office had on file today the names of prospective pupils from the rural districts whose attendance in high school here next term is conditioned upon their success in finding employment in exchange for board and room during the school session.
7/30/1938 - Injuries suffered when he was struck by a falling rock in the Keystone Mining Company’s mine in East Brady caused the death of Michael Augusta Bernard, 58, of East Brady RD one.
7/30/1928 - It is expected that between 125 and 150 horses will be entered in races at the Armstrong County Fair 16-18 Aug.
7/30/1928- Jean Ferguson of Manor Twp, George Glass of Pittsburgh, and Mrs. Quelot of McGrann were severely injured in a car accident on the Kittanning-Leechburg Rd.
7/30/1928- At the close of the Sunday morning service at Ford City First Presbyterian Church, it was voted to extend a call to Rev JG Robinson of Philadelphia.