11/11/1969 – Kittanning Elks Lodge today called on citizens everywhere to display the flag in support of President Nixon and his policies in the Vietnam War.
11/11/1969 - Walter Wick of S. McKean St., here, reported seeing a “big doe” running through his back yard early this morning. The frightened animal crossed the street and became trapped on the front porch of the James Ellermeyer home. After damaging the aluminum storm door, it proceeded to the back yard where it tore up a section of fence trying to escape. The deer was last seen running down Jacob Street toward the river.
11/11/1969 - Magistrates to Replace Jaypees Throughout State Under New System.
11/11/1969 - County Federal Employes Form Credit Union Here.
11/11/1969 – The Armstrong County School Board accepted the resignation of Robert Rathfon, director of Lenape Vo-Tech, at the board’s meeting last night. His resignation will be effective January 16, 1970.
11/11/1964 - Mrs. Norman Karp presided for the first time since taking office last month, over a meeting of the executive board of Kittanning-Ford City Junior Woman’s Club.
11/11/1964 - Willis A. Baum, retired superintendent of Ford City Union School District, was honored at a banquet last night at Kittanning Country Club.
11/11/1959 - A fatal heart attack was suffered by a Kittanning woman while taking a driver’s test for an operator’s license at the Ford City testing course. The victim was Mrs. Elizabeth Hetrick, 57, of 445 North Ave., a clerk for many years at Allen’s Drug Store.
11.11/1959 - Richard S. Graff, son of Mr. and Mrs. Grier Graff of Kittanning, has passed his examination before the State Board of Law Examiners.
11/11/1959 - A Community Committee has been organized by Ford City High School students to assist in obtaining a foreign student who would spend a school year here.
11/11/1954 - Thanksgiving turkeys will be priced locally at about the same as last year - 69 cents a pound for toms.
11/11/1954 - Members of Kittanning Veterans of Foreign Wars observed Veteran’s Day with Flag ceremonies at their South Water Street post home. The members attended church services Sunday and will cap their program with a dinner.
11/11/1954 - Completion of the Templeton road improvement project is expected this month.
11/11/1949 - The newly elected supervisor of West Franklin Township, Harry Noble, was not a candidate for nomination in September. Noble, a Republican, received more than 50 write-in votes in the primaries and then went on to beat a Republican opponent 170 votes to 146 at the election.
11/11/1949 - First Church of God to Dedicate New Place of Worship Here Sunday.
11/11/1918 – The banner headline “Armistice is Signed” was printed in an extra edition put out by the Leader Times published, with offices on South Jefferson Street. The edition said “American-Allied Armistice terms have been signed by Germany. This official announcement was made by the State Department at 2:46 o’clock this morning. The Armistice was signed at 5:00 a.m. today, Paris time, 12:00 o’clock midnight New York time. Hostilities ceased at 11:00 a.m. today, Paris time.” This meant that the war with Germany was over. Shortly after 3 a.m., the whistles began to toot and there was plenty of “racket” made by fire trucks and noise makers to alarm the Kittanning residents to the good news. The banks and all the stores later were closed after the 12 noon observance of prayer and the stores remained closed for the day. John W. Rohrer, Burgess at the time, declared the observance of prayer at 12 noon. A parade was formed at 1 o’clock with several bands in it and an informal program. Some of the local men were serving at the time the Armistice was signed: Judge J. Frank Graff of Kittanning was a battalion commander of the 112th Infantry in the front lines in the Thiacort sector in France, near Metz. On the morning with the news of it, and at 6 a.m. there were orders for an attack to try to take the Fortress at Metz. The men obeyed and started to push forward, then there was a counter order to resume their form positions. At 10, the artillery opened up on both sides and at 11 a.m., everything was stopped and there was no more fighting. U.D. Schrecengost of Locust Street, Kittanning was a private in the 28th Division, 110th Infantry Co A and was on a railroad train going from a base hospital to Toule, France. The soldiers stayed in Toute that day and night quartered in a box car. Some of the soldiers were so excited that they kicked out the sides of the boxcar, with the good news of the end of the war. Sixty-five of them were piled into that boxcar with full equipment. Al Pryde of 507 South Jefferson Street, Kittanning, was a Private First Class in the Army Transport, Co. E, Section B, Regiment 22 when the Armistice was signed. He was in Pittsburgh parading all day long, beginning at 8 a.m. The streets were full of people shouting, yelling. George Phillips of Franklin Avenue, Kittanning, was a Sergeant with the 302nd Engineers and said: “I was in Camp Upton, NY, on Long Island in the hospital, and I had been gassed in France. I do not like to remember too much about it – you know one remembers the pleasant things much better than the unpleasant things in life.” Carl A. Magan of Stone Street, Templeton, was a Corporal with Co. J, 112th Infantry, and was outside of Toule, France. He had been wounded and had been in the hospital, and was on his way back to his company. They were billeted in the upstairs part of the stables. He remembers a Frenchman crawling up the steeple of a church near Toule to put up a flag on the morning of the Armistice. James B. Paterson of 148 Jefferson Street, Kittanning, was a Private First Class in the 28th Division, 112th Infantry, K Co., when the Armistice was signed. The American war casualty figures totaled 70,000 up to the date of November 11, 1918.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Arise, O Lord; O God, lift up thine hand: Forget not the humble. – Psalm 10:12. How often we cry to God for action because it would be easier to believe in God if He would do what we wanted.