1/4/1969 – Two Kittanning residents were treated in the emergency room at Armstrong County Memorial Hospital for injuries suffered from falls. Sam Toy, 8, of Kittanning RD1, fell at school and injured his forehead. Mertle McAfoose, 48, 1125 Wilson Avenue, Kittanning, fell and injured her left wrist.
1/4/1964 – Joe Kozuch, 6-4 Junior led Ford City in both the rebounding and scoring departmente last night as the Glassers handed Leechburg an 84-39 set back at the FCHS. It was the opening game in WPIAL Section 1-A.
1/4/1954 – Howard E. Brosius, recently elected councilman from the third ward in Kittanning, is the only entirely new member of the governing body. A. P. (Lon) Merwin will return as councilman from the Second Ward after sitting out a four-year term. Re-elected to Council spots were Jay Stivason of First Ward and Charles E. Johnson of Fourth Ward.
1/4/1954 – Justice of the Peace Karl M. Watt began a new six-year term following administration of the oath of office at the Register and Recorder’s office, Armstrong County Court House.
1/4/1949 – Some time of the weekend holiday, thieves broke into the Cogley Brothers Jewelry Store in East Brady and carried away merchandise with an estimated value of $800.
1/4/1949 – The Armstrong County Board of Law Examiners has approved two law students, Charles E. Harrington, secretary of the board announced. Harvey H. Heilman Jr. of Manorville and David Stahl of Kittanning are now eligible to take their bar examinations. Howard E. Miller and R. Albert Bertocchi, both of Kittanning, registered as law students.
1/4/1949 – There were 42 fewer divorces granted in Armstrong County during the year 1948 than in 1947.
1/4/1944 – Charles Montgomery who for two years past has served as a substitute and part-time patrolman in Kittanning police department, was elected by Town Council as a regular full-time patrolman, following a vacancy created by the resignation of T. M. Steffey.
1/4/1944 – Burgess Jacob J. Maxeiner revealed that he has turned into borough coffers more than $26,000 in the ten years he has been in office.
1/4/1944 – Kittanning Town Council evidenced interest in purchase of Gilpin Field for park and recreation purposes and went on record as willing to pay up to $4,000 for the Ford Ward tract of more than three acres.
1/4/1939 – Paula Maude Walker, age not quite four days, was a rich young lady by virtue of her birth at 2:43 AM on January 1, 1939. The fourth child of Mr. & Mrs. Frank H. Walker of Worthington won herself and her parents an imposing assortment of gifts by arriving ahead of Armstrong County’s other New Year’s babies.
1/4/1939 – Twelve thousand feet of lumber, a tractor, and an automobile were destroyed last week when fire leveled a shed owned by L. H. Crissman of Widnoon.
1/4/1939 – Augustine P. Allen of Ford City was appointed by Auditor General Warren R. Roberts to serve as merchantile appraiser in Armstrong County in the calendar year 1939.
1/4/1934 – North Apollo borough schools have been closed since December 15, the result of a serious outbreak of mumps.
1/4/1934 – A new electrical score board which arrived yesterday was erected on the west side of the Kittanning High School gymnasium.
1/4/1934 – The Mystic Club was organized last night at the home of Mrs. Margaret Petsinger of North Avenue, Kittanning.
1/4/1929 – Mrs. O. B. Delp will be installed tonight as president of the Kittanning unit of the American Legion Auxiliary.
1/4/1929 – Fire yesterday destroyed the large frame house of Miles Riggle near Brick Church.
1/4/1929 – William Thomas, 88-year-old Civil War veteran, died at his home in Gastown. Frank Jagemen, 72, died yesterday at his home on 6th Avenue in Ford City.