12/20/1969 - Eight Ford City High School musicians became Christmas troubadours last night as they entertained shoppers in Ford City’s business district with Christmas carols. The eight, who formed a brass ensemble, strolled along the business section, stopping before stores and houses, playing yuletide numbers. They were Michael Fennell, Gary Rupert, Eric Roudebush, David Wyant, Michael Tullai and Dale Wyant.
12/20/1954 - Approximately 3,000 adults and children lined Ford City streets to watch the town’s first ever Christmas parade.
12/20/1954 - Midshipman Raymond Miller (4-c) of Annapolis Naval Academy arrived Saturday to spend the holiday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Miller of 1333-5th Ave.
12/20/1949 - Word was received here that Thomas V. McKee, son of Dr. and Mrs. T. Craig McKee was admitted to a Philadelphia hospital, suffering from an attack of infantile paralysis.
12/20/1949 - A throng of shoppers joined with the Kittanning Men’s Chorus in singing many of the old favorite Christmas carols. The songfest was at Market Street, shortly after the 9 p.m. store closing hour.
12/20/1944 - A War Department telegram informed Mrs. Pearl Fox of 103 Mulberry St. that her son, Sgt. Alvie E. Fox, has been missing in action since Nov. 26. In the last letter received from him, Sgt. Fox told of spending Thanksgiving in Paris.
12/20/1944 - Mr. and Mrs. Chart Anthony of Worthington RD 2 received a telegram from the War Department informing them their son, Cpl. Walter R. Anthony had been slightly wounded Dec. 5 while in action in Germany.
12/20/1939 - The second prominent Elderton resident to die unexpectedly within the past two weeks, Alex Clark, 83, was found dead in the doorway of his barn.
12/20/1939 - A two-story frame dwelling at the camp of Armstrong County Register and Recorder Glenn Mast, situated along the Allegheny River above Dam No. 9, was leveled by fire.
12/20/1934 - Ford City Kiwanis Club members last night discussed plans for the forming of a Tiny Tim Club in the community.
12/20/1934 - Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Miller of Garretts Run Road entertained Dec. 10 at a dinner in honor of the former’s father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Miller of Logansport, who were married 50 years on that date. Mr. and Mrs. Miller have lived the 50 years of their married life in the vicinity of Logansport.
12/20/1929 - The lowest bid submitted at the letting of the Apollo-Spring Church road project, at offices in Harrisburg yesterday, was $90,000 higher than the advance estimate of the cost of the project.
12/20/1929 - The Kittanning Garden Club, organized several months ago, will sponsor Kittanning’s first Christmas lighting contest. There will be prizes given for the four best outdoor decorations.
12/20/1929 - Plans for a new county home to be erected on the Mergenthaler farm, Rural Valley Road, are nearly complete. Work on the building will begin soon.
BIBLE MEDITATION – Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned. – Song of Solomon 8:7 Real love has more than nine lives, and like life, you cannot buy it.