Union Baptist Church is celebrating 220 years in November 2018.
11/17/1968 – Members of the Union Baptist Church in North Buffalo Township celebrated the 170th anniversary of the church today with three special services. The Rev. Robert W. Childs, church pastor, spoke in the morning. Pastor Ted Wimer, retired missionary in Africa and associate pastor of First Baptist Church in Butler spoke in the afternoon. The Rev. L. B. Greaser of the state of New York, reminisced about happenings in the life of the church in evening session. Frank Livengood of Freeport RD1 gave history of the church. “Union Baptist Church located near Cadogan, was the first Baptist Church organized west of the Allegheny River and was built in 1798 where the church cemetery now stands. The first 50 years, the early members met and held services in their homes. As they grew in numbers the need arose for a building and a construction was erected from 16-foot boards and having put forked sticks into the ground to carry ridge poles, the members sided it up and covered it, making a shed 28 feet by 40 feet.”
11/18/1968 – South Buffalo Fire Hall is location of a public meeting today concerning the Buffalo Creek to Slate Lick section of the Allegheny Valley Expressway. This section of highway will include the interchange with Route 28 and the Expressway. When constructed, the Expressway will be open to traffic from Route 422 two miles west of Kittanning to Allegheny County, just north of Natron Heights, a distance of approximately 15 miles.
11/19/1968 – Reorganization of Armstrong County school districts, which became involved in the courts, has been resolved. The plan permanently established four Armstrong County school districts that were operating on a temporary basis: Apollo Area Jointure, comprising of Apollo and North Apollo boroughs and western part of Kiskiminetas Township; Freeport Area Jointure, consisting of Freeport Borough, South Buffalo Township, and Butler County’s Buffalo Township; Leechburg Union of Gilpin Township, Leechburg Borough and Westmoreland County’s West Leechburg; and Elders Ridge Jointure, currently part of Indiana County school system, but being transferred to Armstrong County. The reorganization becomes operative on July 1, 1969.
11/19/1968 – Sarver Community Chorus, a singing group for 16 years, will present a musical program at 7:45 tonight in Hunter Hall of First Baptist Church, Kittanning, in connection with the annual Thankoffering service of the Women’s Fellowship of the church. The chorus is directed by Clair Halstead and composed of men from many walks of life. The service is open to all women of the church.
11/19/1968 – In a landmark case, the American Newspaper Association and Washington Evening Star have filed suit to forbid the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission from prohibiting separate “male” and “female” columns in help-wanted advertisements in newspapers. As of December 1, the law prohibits the advertising of jobs by sex, unless “sex is a bona fide occupational qualification for the particular job involved.” No longer could an ad say an employer was looking for a woman secretary for an executive, or a man wanted for a police officer. An injunction has been sought.
11/19/1963 – Donald J. Claypoole, Kittanning RD 2, was returned as president of the Kittanning Kennel Club as the club began its 7th year Saturday night with a banquet and election of officers.
11/19/1958 – Installation services for the Rev. Charles W. Holsinger of Rural Valley Presbyterian Church will be held Sunday. Members of the other 4 churches in the parish, Sagamore, Whitesburg, Yatesboro, and Atwood; have been invited to the services.
11/19/1958 – Blair Shoupe Jr., 10, of Apollo RD 3 was admitted to Armstrong Co. Memorial Hospital last night for treatment of back injuries received, according to hospital official ones, in a fall from a tree.
11/19/1953 – New Bethlehem- The economy of this Southern Clarion Co. town got a welcome shot in the arm this week with an announcement that a major furniture manufacturer will construct a plant near here employing some 500 people. Construction is to start immediately at Alcola, 2 miles east of here, for the new firm to be formed by the Crawford Furniture Manufacturing Corporation of Jamestown, NY.
11/19/1953 – Work was scheduled to start on construction of a new Reesedale Church of God cemetery. The old one will be moved to make room for construction of a new plant of Durez Plastic ones and chemicals, Inc.
11/19/1953 – The Rev. Ralph Newell, pastor of First Baptist Church in Ellwood City for over 6 years, has accepted a call to First Baptist Church, Kittanning.
11/19/1948 – Industrial customers of Peoples Natural Gas Co. still have no assurance of adequate gas supplies this winter in spite of a temporary order issued by the Federal Power Commission authorizing additional gas to come into this area from the inch lines.
11/19/1943 – At a business meeting of the congregation of First Brethren Church of West Kittanning, plans were begun for construction of a new church building. The structure will replace one gutted recently by a fire.
11/19/1943 – A delegation of school official ones and ministers from the Tarentum and Brackenridge districts spent a day in Kittanning conferring with school official ones and ministers relative to the religious education program in the Kittanning schools.
11/19/1938 – The weatherman has his seasons mixed in Armstrong Co. Roses and sweet peas have been reported in full bloom during November, and now comes another out of season oddity. James M. Storey, a clerk at the Kittanning post office, picked nearly a quart of ripe strawberries on his Kittanning RD 3 farm.
11/19/1938 – Children of the district who may otherwise fare rather poorly could look forward to a Thanksgiving dinner next week, as a result of preparation for an annual Salvation Army event under the direction of Captain I. James Wycoff.
11/19/1928 – The community was shocked by news of the death of Postmaster Harry B. Henderson.
11/19/1928 – E. E. Truby, 67-year-old contractor, was found dead in bed at his home in Garretts Run.