How Time Flies for June 8, 2008:

100 years ago

June 8, 1908: The new YMCA at East and Washington was dedicated yesterday. The ceremony was interrupted when a runaway team of horses pulling a carriage came charging down Washington, then south on East. No one was hurt. The team stopped after a few blocks.

75 years ago

June 8, 1933: The Midwest is in the grip of a heat wave. Temperatures soared to 102 degrees in Bloomington yesterday. Paducah, Kentucky also reached 102. But no other city did.

50 years ago

June 8, 1958: Mrs. Charles (Margie) Wilkerson, 502 South Denver, was the county's first polio patient of 1958. She has now recovered. Mrs. Wilkerson is the mother of five children. Health officials urge everyone under the age of 40 to have polio shots.

25 years ago

June 8, 1983: Black nightshade is showing up again in central Illinois. Last year it forced farmers to go to extraordinary lengths to save their soybean fields. This year nightshade isn't a problem yet, but farmers are advised to be on the lookout for its emergence.