11/29/1969 – A Ford City native, Frank Skukalek, professionally known as Frank Roberts as a dancer and actor, is visiting relatives and friends in Ford City and vicinity during the Thanksgiving holiday. Roberts is here with his professional dance partner, Trina Winters of New York City. They have completed several cruises where they entertain aboard ship. The couple will perform tonight at the Ford City Veterans of Foreign Wars Home, Bailey Ave., Ford City.
11/29/1969 – Friends and relatives visited Clair (Pappy) Davis of 664 Ross Avenue, Ford City, on Thanksgiving Day, to wish the lifelong Rosston resident a happy 70th birthday. Approximately 70 persons, including seven of his ten children, 19 of his grandchildren, and his sister, Mrs. Vetta Coleman, helped Davis eat his three birthday cakes.
11/29/1954 – Jack Blaney, Kittanning grocer, was elected president of The Upstreammers Men’s Bible Class of First Presbyterian Church.
11/29/1954 – Fire flashed upward from its ground-floor origin completely gutted he Applewold dwelling of Charles Easley.
11/29/1949 – Ford City Banks Pay Out $175,000 to Yule Savers. Total Amount to Over 2,400 Club Members Top 1948 Figure by Ten Per Cent.
11/29/1949 – Many Hunters Bag Deer in Season’s First Day. Local Countryside Provides Good Sport: 14-year-old Among Successful.
11/29/1949 – Ray F. Yount Company has halted work on the county parking lot in front of the courthouse until Spring of 1950., it was reported today. A blacktop surface, coping on a retaining wall and a cement sidewalk remain to be completed.
11/29/1944 – Payment of approximately $65,000 to hundreds of Kittanning Christmas Club savers will be made Dec. 6 by four town banking institutions.
11/29/1944 – Ike Hagins came back to his home in Freeport, the cheers of his townspeople ringing in his ears and a reception that warmed his heart. For T-5 Isaac B. Hagins had lived through the horror of the Philippines when the Japs captured the island and inflicted their cruelty upon the inhabitants. Ike has lived through the nightmare of a Jap prison camp, had seen the slaughter of American prisoners after a U.S. submarine sank the transport on which they were being taken to another prison. Hagins, who was on that ship, escaped to join Filipino guerrillas and reached Australia.
11/29/1939 – The placing of vari-colored Christmas lights along the business district streets, and the altering of Thanksgiving window displays to Yuletide scenes, gave evidence this week that the Christmas spirit was in the air in Kittanning.
11/29/1939 – Two hundred fifty persons, men and their wives from the entire shop of Eljer Company, attended a party marked by a symbolic bit of ceremony at formal opening of the new brick building last night. The dedicated building is a one-story brick structure, with 15,000 square feet of floor space. It will go into use almost immediately for general production purposes.
11/29/1934 - Thanksgiving Day. No Paper.
11/29/1929 – E. T. Hutchison was elected president of the Kittanning Kiwanis Club for the coming year, at the club’s meeting at Kline’s Wednesday night.
11/29/1929 – Fire starting from an unknown cause on Wednesday caused the loss of a large frame barn and its contents on the Steve Hromadik farm at Pattonville.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows. – Isaiah 53:4. God has taken the initiative in loving us and through Christ reconciled the world to Himself.