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Day in history for June 24, 2008

1858 -- 150 years ago: The committee in charge of making arrangements for the Fourth of July are determined to get up a celebration worthy of the day. No general celebration has been held for many years.
1883 -- 125 years ago: School board elections will take place in Rock Island tomorrow.
1908 -- 100 years ago: The Mississippi River passed the 12-foot stage at Rock Island today.
1933 -- 75 years ago: Rock Island County has submitted projects calling for highway improvement funds totaling $376,000. The projects will be taken under consideration by the governor's unemployment commission. Allocations would come out of the money set aside for Illinois in the public works program of the federal government in highway construction.
1958 -- 50 years ago: College students were reminded today by Selective Service officials that they must apply now for draft deferments.
1983 -- 25 years ago: The last drink will be poured and the last glass lifted Thursday at the Jug bar in the LeClaire Hotel. The Jug will close at the end of this month due to lack of business. The hotel has been a downtown Moline landmark since it opened in December 1922. The bar probably opened soon after the repeal of Prohibition in 1933. It has been a popular gathering place for downtown Moline workers ever since.

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1863 — 150 years ago: Messrs. J. and M. Rosenfield have moved their leather and hidestore to the building formerly occupied by Temple Bufords's store. They buy and sellhides, pelts, furs, wool, beeswax, lard, tallow, etc.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The Rock Island Lumber Company has recovered 5,000 of the8,000 logs that were carried away by the Mississippi River flood last week.
1913 -- 100 years ago: John J. Ullemeyer has been awarded the contract to furnish RockIsland fire and police department members with uniforms, at the city's expense.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Work on Aledo's new $38,000 swimming pool was started thismorning at South Park when ground for the pool was broken by Mayor John W. Murphy.
1963 -- 50 years ago: Students and teacher at Moline High School called today "MissLeona Day" day at the school in honor of the government teacher who retires at theend of the school term. Although she's been teaching for 43 years at the school, Miss Dayfound a new way of arriving at the school this morning. At 7:30 a.m., a police squad carpulled up in front of Miss Day's home and escorted her to school. A caravan of students' cars joined the procession along the way.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Barbecue cooking and riverfront antics are planned for Discover the
River Day Saturday in Leach Park, Bettendorf. A 5K run, wind surfing, a canoe race, hogcalling and more will round out the day under the Interstate 74 bridge.

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