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GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES

Day in history for September 4, 2003

1853 -- 150 years ago: Plenty of large watermelons can be bought now in our streets for 5 cents apiece. Excellent apples and potatoes are sold from the two-horse wagons in Market Square at 25 cents a bushel. Lemuel Andrews raised an apple in his orchard in Greenbush (East Rock Island) which measures 12-and-a-half inches in circumference.
1878 -- 125 years ago: John B. Hawley, assistant secretary of the treasury, has come home from Washington and is vacationing in his home on Moline (5th) Avenue, Rock Island.
1903 -- 100 years ago: E.E. Guyer, I.S. White, W.H. Marshall and Ira Carr left today on a two-week fishing trip at Hayward, Wisconsin.
1928 -- 75 years ago: Cool, autumn-like weather (51 degrees) failed to curtail attendance at the principal Labor Day programs. Several thousand went to AFL's 39th annual outing held in Connie's Grove near Hillsdale.
1953 -- 50 years ago: One taxicab twice interrupted an otherwise quiet morning for Rock Island firemen. Two times a 1953 model Irish Cab Company taxicab caught fire due to a short in the wires, once at 12:07 a.m. and again at 7:40 a.m.
1978 -- 25 years ago: There are about 1,300 fewer students sitting in Illinois Quad-City classrooms this year than last. School officials trace the enrollment drop to the end of the post-war baby boom and to maturing neighborhoods in some sections of the Quad-Cities.

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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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