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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for March 11, 2003

1853 -- 150 years ago: Last Friday evening a large number of the personal friends of the former editor of The Republican, L.S. Nichols, met at the Rock Island House. The long dining room was well-fixed, the oysters and other ``fixins'' delicious, the cigars excellent.
1878 -- 125 years ago: The Nationals were badly whipped at an election in Milan yesterday. The Peoples ticket, elected without exception, included Thomas Kerr, president, and Thomas Johnston, A.R. Brown, J.E. Burrows, R.P. Dart, A. Cook and J.C. Adams, councilmen.
1903 -- 100 years ago: The county supervisors cast six ballots yesterday before they could decide on the architect for a new pauper house to replace a burned structure. L.M. Drack of Rock Island, finally was chosen.
1928 -- 75 years ago: The board of directors of the YWCA decided to close the dormitory because of the deficit it had caused for several years.
1953 -- 50 years ago: Permanent closing of foundry operations at the J.I. Case Co. plant in Bettendorf about May 1 will release an estimated 250 men, many of whom are expected to be absorbed in other industrial plants in the Quad-Cities area.
1978 -- 25 years ago: A young Moliner has been accepted by the Audition Division to do television commercials in Rosemont, Ill., for national television. Angela Holliday, 5, will be working for the Geddes Agency, Chicago. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs. James Holliday.

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Today is Sunday, May 19, the 139th day of 2013. There are 226 days left in the year.
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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