9/18/1968 – Motorists using the Kittanning bridge can expect congestion to get worse before it gets better. Following completion of the Allegheny Valley Expressway, traffic will still go from the end of the expressway through West Kittanning and through Kittanning to continue on either Route 28 North of Route 422 east.
9/18/1963 - D.J. Allen, Armstrong Co. Cancer chairman, received state and local recognition for surpassing the county crusade quota this year. A total of $18,000.18, highest one ever in the county, was collected.
9/18/1958 - A group of indignant Washington Twp. parents, today refused to let their children ride school buses on the Reesedale-Sherrett road in an effort to bring about improvements on the secondary road.
9/18/1958 - Ford City- A water system for Ford Cliff Borough and part of Manor Twp. is closer to reality with sale last night of $310000 worth of bonds to a Pittsburgh bonding firm by the Manor Twp. Joint Municipal Authority.
9/18/1958 - A Templeton RD 1 man is amongst 7 accused of conspiring to cheat the state of $61000 thru “phantom cinders deliveries in Westmoreland and Armstrong Counties may go on trial in January.”
9/18/1953 - Cadogan Lions Club members are spreading a sand and gravel surface on a playground which was partially completed this year, adjacent to Cadogan school.
9/18/1953 - Workmen began yesterday breaking concrete walks and walls, and excavating for a road base on 3rd Ave. between Ford and 10th Streets. Work has been done on the site once occupied by the Philadelphia Block. 3rd Ave. will be straightened for 122 ft. where it once curved around the razed structure.
9/18/1948 - Donald Hankinson, 19 year old son of the Bernard Hankinson of Cowansville RD 1, had his left arm removed at Armstrong Co. Memorial Hospital. Donald was thrown from a horse on the Ford City fairgrounds during the fair 2 weeks ago. In the fall he broke his arm and the bone protruded thru the flesh. Infection set in.
9/18/1948 - Mrs. Wilma Sullivan, 152 W High St., arrived in NY with the first people of 900 American Catholic ones returning from a pilgrimage to the Vatican.
9/18/1943 - Excitement ran high along the Kittanning waterfront when a 32 ft. sailboat, “Squarehead”, was launched in the Allegheny River at the foot of Mulberry St. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schenholm of Bradford, owners, plan to cruise downstream on the Allegheny, Ohio, and Mississippi rivers to New Orleans.
9/18/1943 - Kittanning HS football team stacked up against a tough one and made a creditable showing in spite of finishing on the short end of a 12-6 score. Opponent for the Wildcats was Bessemer HS.
9/18/1933 - J. Gold, rabbi of Kneseth Israel congregation here, is in Allegheny Valley Hospital, Tarentum, with a cut near his eye, the full seriousness of which will not be definitely known for a few days. Glass from the rabbi’s spectacles cut his face as he fell.
9/18/1933 - Official ones of the Ford City NRA committee and Hose Co. #1 firemen have joined to plan Armstrong Co.’s first NRA parade in Ford City on the afternoon of Sept. 25.
9/18/1928 - Squire and Mrs. August Klose celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary Sunday at their home on 5th Avenue, Ford City.
9/18/1928 - The Armstrong County Ministerial Association elected the Rev. H. G. Newcomer as president.