09/03/1969 – Manor Township Hose Company members ended a successful three-day festival on the lawn of the former Bellwood School with a parade and fireworks as a feature of the Labor Day weekend event. There were 37 units in the march which moved along Manorville and McGrann streets yesterday afternoon. Water battles among firemen of Ford City, Ford Cliff, West Kittanning, Rayburn Township, Oklahoma, and Manor were held. A 25 minute fireworks display started shortly after 11PM at the official close of the event.
09/03/1969 – Alan Van Dine of Kittanning has published his observations of activities on school busses in the September Parents magazine. He titled his article “What Has Four Wheels and Giggles?” Kittanning, North Buffalo Township, Center Hill, and Glade Run are mentioned in the comic two-page story, confirming that stile of travel aboard school buses has not changed since the author rode from North Buffalo Township to Kittanning when he was 13 years old. Van Dine, son of Mr. & Mrs. Albert Van Dine of Kittanning RD7, is employed by BBD&O Advertising Agency in Pittsburgh. He is the father of four children.
09/03/1969 - Holiday traffic claimed 612 lives on nation’s highways over the three-day Labor Day weekend.
09/03/1969 - Ford City vitreous china plant of Eljer Plumbingware Division of Wallace Murray Corporation will increase production, creating at least 100 additional jobs in 1970. The $1.4 million expansion plans will include new tunnel kiln and other related equipment.
09/03/1969 - School officially opened today for the nearly 13,000 students of the Armstrong School District.
09/03/1969 – The Kittanning Eagles Club on South Water Street is getting a face lift and new coat of paint after board members decided to renovate and stay rather than move as was once discussed. Workmen are changing the front windows, replacing them with glass block and smaller windows, and have torn off a side porch. Old brick was also replaced at roof level.
09/03/1964 - Alex Claypoole, well-known resident of West Franklin Township and probably its oldest resident, will celebrate his 90th birthday Sunday.
09/03/1964 - Glenn W. Hooks, Kittanning MR 10 (Pine Hill), has been named manager of the Prudential Insurance Co.’s Sunbury district office.
09/03/1959 - About 4,000 persons attended open house at the newly built Ford City High School addition. Members of Ford City Union School District Board were hosts.
09/03/1959 - Teamsters are picketing Pollock Candy Company’s North Grant Avenue warehouse. The reason for the strike is failure of the management to accept a contract.
09/03/1959 - Armstrong County Judge J. Frank Graff has ordered the Third Ward of Kittanning divided into two voting districts - eastern and western.
09/03/1954 - Elderton: School officials today looked forward to speedy progress on the first phase of a building program, after agreement was reached last night to months of controversy.
09/03/1954 - Production will resume Sept. 13 on a limited scale at the Cadogan mine of Allegheny River Mining Company.
09/03/1954 - 1st Lt. Donald Eugene Garner, 24-year-old Ford City native, was killed in the crash of jet trainer after it collided with another plane near Laredo (Texas) Air Force Base. Lt. Garner is the third Air Force officer of the locality to die in the crash of a jet plane in the past year.
09/03/1949 - Army Pfc. Carl B. Geary Jr. of 1436 N. Grant Ave., Kittanning, died at Chanute (Ill.) Air Force Base of spinal meningitis.
09/03/1949 - A team of horses owned by H. K. Hetrick of New Bethlehem and driven by Harold Hetrick Jr. won the lightweight horsepulling contest at Armstrong County Fairgrounds.
09/03/1949 - A petition presented by Armstrong County Commissioners to Judge J. Frank Graff asking permission to remodel and enlarge the present courthouse, will be referred to members of the September grand jury when it convenes here.
09/03/1929 - Pearl Richardson, nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Richardson of Manorville, is achieving local fame as a swimmer. On Labor Day she swam the Allegheny River at its widest point at Manorville.
09/03/1929 - Except for the presence of a record-breaking number of tourists, Kittanning had a remarkably quiet Labor Day.