You can fool some of the people all of the time. Don’t be one of them.
7/31/1968 - A seldom-used storage room in the basement of the Armstrong County Courthouse is being converted to the Emergency Operating Center that will dispatch police or fire crews in an emergency anywhere in the county. Presently, the Kittanning Telephone Company is installing telephone communications in the basement room. Installers Richard Brown and Ralph Satterfield is assisting in the wiring of the switchboard.
7/31/1968 - Long-time Kittanning businessman Charles D. Shuster has joined a State College advertising agency as account executive. He has been the general manager of the Valley Master Cable system here for the past three years. Prior thereto, he was commercial manager of radio station WACB, and also served as manager of People’s Radio Service. He has been on the board of the Kittanning-Ford City Area Chamber of Commerce, Kittanning Waterfront Development Corporation, and the Armstrong County Tourist Bureau.
7/31/1968 - A Dr. Doolittle Day parade will be held at 1PM today at Jefferson Street Playground and 3PM at Orr Avenue. The Jefferson Street playground will be closed Friday afternoon to prepare for a talent show there at 7PM.
7/31/1963 - Charlene Schwab of Ford City was awarded the BS degree in general nursing by Indiana University at their 134th commencement ceremony.
7/31/1958 - Brick work around the new Armstrong County YMCA swimming pool was about completed as July came to an end today. Space has been left for glass brick which will give light from the south pool wall.
7/31/1958 - A Democratic office seeker, Paul E Putney of Kittanning proposed that 2 flood control reservoir parks in Armstrong County be further developed as permanent summer vacation lands.
7/31/1958 - Ford City- About 1200 Cub Scouts, leaders, parents, and friends gathered in a glen around a campfire at Crooked Creek State Park and watched the Cub Scout Akela ceremonies.
7/31/1953 - Leechburg Little League All Stars last night won the championship of District 8 by downing Ford City 3-1 at the Pattonville field of the Ford City VFW.
7/31/1953 - Elma Saloum, 130 5th Ave, Ford City, a catcher from the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Industries team in Armstrong County Girls’ Softball League, fractured her ankle in a game with the Kittanning Murphy’s team. She was treated at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital.
7/31/1948 - Mr. Stork, who delivers wee ones in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital, left 3 girl wee ones with one mother yesterday, 30 July. At 3:29, 3:37, and 3:41 pm, they were born to Mr. and Mrs. Harold Crissman of Templeton RD one.
7/31/1948 - Worthington United Presbyterian Church opens centennial. Visiting ministers extend greetings, Sunday night communion to end rites.
7/31/1943 - Ott Neubert Wilson, a well known citizen, merchant, and stockman, and a native one of Armstrong County, died at his home at 130 Market St Friday following a 7 week illness. Death resulted from complications after a major operation on 12 June.
7/31/1943 - Miss Julia Nolder of Garretts Run remained a patient in Armstrong County Memorial Hospital today as a result of a painful leg injury and other injuries suffered Friday falling near the bottom of a flight of stairs in the Empire Building, Market St.
7/31/1933 - A vicious wind, rain, and electrical storm dropped out of an overcast sky in New Bethlehem late Sunday afternoon causing heavy damage. Cliff Anthony of Coultersburg, near Distant, was treated by a New Bethlehem doctor for burns to the top of his head, received when lightning struck a tree in which he, his brother AJ Anthony, and James Coulter had taken refuge from the fury of the storm.
7/31/1933 - A good attendance of Freeport people and out of town guests attended the opening centennial service Sunday afternoon in the Freeport HS auditorium. Attorney C Hale Sipe of Butler, a former Freeport one, was the speaker.
7/31/1928 - A stranger in a strange community, an aged umbrella mender, drowned in the Allegheny River in Rimerton when he fell out of a rowboat.
7/31/1928 - Just as he was about to start for home at the close of the day’s work in the mines of the Lawsonham Coal Company in Lawsonham, 70 yr old Jerry Smith was caught under a fall of roof and instantly killed.