Event:      Christmas on the Square

Date:  Saturday, December 1, 2012; Sunday, December 2, 2012
Cambridge's Christmas on the Square will be held from 5-8 p.m. Saturday, and will include Taste of Cambridge and horse-drawn carriage rides. On Sunday, activities will run from 11:30 a.m.-8 p.m. They will include the Festival of Gingerbread and the Main Street Tour of Homes ($6), churches will have bake sales, Santa will visit at 4 p.m., there will be a chili supper from 4:30-6:30 p.m., and the high school jazz band will play. A Christmas cantata will be performed at the First Baptist Church at 7 p.m. Call (309) 937-2633 for details.

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1913 -- 100 years ago: The junior class of Rock Island High School will hold a riverexcursion on the steamer St. Paul next Tuesday.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The 75th Anniversary of the Rock Island Arsenal today finds thenation's largest ordinance manufacturing plant filling many important orders for the army.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Miss Patrice Daly, Rock Island, a senior at Rock Island HighSchool, won second place in the recent state public speaking contest held in Peoria underthe auspices of the Knights of Pythias.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Hampton's sesquicentennial committee and the Hampton HistoricalSociety have scheduled a full slate of activities, which will be held throughout the year, to celebrate the village's 150th birthday. The first celebration will be the Memorial Dayprogram at 10 a.m. May 30, at the Brettun and Black Store Museum on River Road. Therewill be a sesquicentennial display.




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