GIRLS' STATE TRACK AND FIELD UPDATES
Obituaries for May 17, 2013
Glenna Skelly  May 18, 2013
Carl Perkins  May 18, 2013
Ernest McDonald  May 18, 2013
David Kendall  May 18, 2013
Cindy Gravert   May 18, 2013
Carl Fister  May 18, 2013
Ethel Daniel  May 18, 2013
Daniel Czolgosz   May 18, 2013
Geraldine "Jerrie" Robinson  May 18, 2013
Kristin Phillips   May 18, 2013
Helen Boyles   May 18, 2013
Reuben Salmonson   May 18, 2013
John Goeden  May 18, 2013
Marilyn Rosenberg  May 18, 2013
Bette Resser   May 18, 2013
Anna Payden  May 18, 2013
Patsy Harper   May 18, 2013
James Denman  May 18, 2013
Jack Watt   May 17, 2013
Cindy Gravert  May 17, 2013
Daniel Czolgosz  May 17, 2013
Karen Berger-Haynes   May 17, 2013
Florence Hoskins   May 17, 2013
Maria Havemann   May 17, 2013
Mary Flaherty   May 17, 2013
Ralph Harker Jr.   May 17, 2013
Mary Ann Rogers   May 17, 2013
Elsa Rodts   May 17, 2013
Jane Harper  May 17, 2013



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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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