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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for February 18, 2003

1853 -- 150 years ago: The postmaster general has officially announced that the United States postage on all letters to and from France, by way of England, is 21 cents, and on newspapers, 4 cents. This postage is to be collected and retained by the United States.
1878 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island city council passed an ordinance giving to owners of halls or theaters the option of taking out a license for one to 10 years at the rate of $25 a year.
1903 -- 100 years ago: John Marshall, pioneer resident of Cordova township, died. In 1840, he and his brother, William, raised the first crop ever grown in that township.
1928 -- 75 years ago: Rock Island was the unequivocal choice of the Inland Waterways Corporation for location of a transshipment river terminal for the Quad-City district.
1953 -- 50 years ago: The first choice of the citizens advisory committee for the proposed new Moline High School is Oakwood Country Club. But Allen E. Rose, member of the board of the country club, declared that: ``Oakwood Country Club is not for sale!''
1978 -- 25 years ago: Two of four turbine units at a Moline power station operated by Iowa-Illinois Gas and Electric Co. will be shut down at night to relieve neighbors in the 3rd St. hill area of a loud, ``howling noise.'' The units will be shut down after 10 p.m. until engineers can determine what is causing the sound.

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Today is Saturday, May 18, the 138th day of 2013. There are 227 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: A large variety of children's wagons and gigs have arrived in thecity and are being sold at war prices.
1888 -- 125 years ago: All Rock Island retail houses, with the exception of a clothingstore and a jewelry store, have agreed to early closing hours during the summer months.The store will be closed at 8 p.m.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Baseball enthusiasts in Rock Island are attempting to raise$20,000 to keep the Island City Park open, despite the fact that the city has no franchise inorganized baseball this year.
1938 -- 75 years ago: The organization of a third rural young people's unit will beundertaken tomorrow night at the Milan Presbyterian Church, with Mrs. Mildred K.Wellman, home advisor, and Robert Smith, county farm adviser in charge.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Deere & Co. will begin a "big switch" on its telephone systemMonday morning. The extension numbers of all 1,600 telephones on the firm's EastMoline and Moline exchanges will be changed Monday morning.
1988 -- 25 years ago: East Moline's June Jamboree VI -- Nostalgia Days, will seemlike a '60s revival with the appearance of stars like Bobby Vee, Freddie Cannon, PeterNoone, Turtles, The Grass Roots and Lou Christie. This year's festival has beenexpanded to five days, June 22-26, at the Northeast Park complex.

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