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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for February 23, 2001

1876 -- 125 years ago: Patrick Carey has tendered his resignation to Chief Engineer Kennedy as foreman of Rescue Hose Company in the Fourth Ward.
1901 -- 100 years ago: Black Hawk Tent, K.O.T.C., celebrated its second anniversary in Maccabee hall.
1926 -- 75 years ago: Two men and two women were seized in Rock Island as members of a Midwest post office and railway express company robber gang.
1951 -- 50 years ago: Large sections of lowlands in the Quad-City area were under deepening water today, but the weatherman said the swollen Rock River is nearing its crest and the icy onslaught nearly spent. At the Moline bridge, the Rock River stage this morning was 12.6 feet, a rise of .4 of a foot since yesterday, and more than two-and-a-half feet over flood stage.
1976 -- 25 years ago: A four-man team of Moline police officers placed second in the Moline Police Benevolent Association's third annual combat shooting tournament, distinguished expert group. The team was comprised of Lt. Eugene Hermes, and patrolmen Ronald Hayes, Eugene Mattecheck and William Loete. Another Moline team, comprised of Sgt. Donald Heston, and patrolmen Kenneth Hanger, Michael Leaf and Harry Reeder, placed second in the four-man team, expert group. Approximately 120 shooters from Peoria, Chicago, Iowa City and Quad-City area police departments participated in the two-day tournament.

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1863 -- 150 years ago: The Rt. Rev. Harry I. Witherspoon, D.D. Bishop of Illinois, willpreach in Trinity (Episcopal) Church, in this city this evening.
1888 -- 125 years ago: At 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Mississippi River flooded itsbanks at Rock Island, destroying the warehouse of the Rock Island Lumber companyand damaging the Lumber Company and arsenal power plant. Total loss isestimated at $100.000.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Residents of South Rock Island township are circulating a petitionfavoring the annexation of that area to the city of Rock Island.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Mrs. Thomas Ackles, of Rock Island, has been elected president ofthe Playcrafters for the next season. She succeeds Warren Leonard.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Some 8,000 people filed through the gates of Rock Island Arsenal on Saturday to view a display of a part of the nation's armed strength. The occasion was theannual observance of Armed Forces Day.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Willis Kuschmann, of Moline, who already has won his laurels as oneof the most artistic men in the Quad-Cities area, has a new hobby. He is deeply involvedin miniature railroading. At the age of 88, when many other seniors are dozing in theirchairs or sitting before the television, Mr. Kuschmann is planning and working on hiscollection.

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