How Time Flies for Sept. 7, 2008:

100 years ago

Sept. 7, 1908: Today is Labor Day, with festivities at Houghton's Lake Park and the YMCA downtown. A double header between Bloomington and Springfield is scheduled at the Three Eye ball park and dancing later on. Farther north, ISNU begins its fall term today.

75 years ago

Sept. 7, 1933: From Chicago: "Machine Gun" Jack McGurn, reputed trigger man for the old Al Capone gang, will go to jail for six months under Illinois' new vagrancy law. It took a jury less than half an hour to convict him. Capone himself went to prison for tax evasion.

50 years ago

Sept. 7, 1958: A Chicago bidder learned that prime farm land here isn't cheap. A 60-year-old woman outbid a rival for a 40-acre farm on Route 9, auctioned by Colonel Harold Kindred. It was a deal until she found she was paying $551 per acre instead of for the entire farm.

25 years ago

Sept. 7, 1983: Call it a fluke, but ISU's fall enrollment is exactly the same as last year's: 19,817. Enrollment could have topped 20,000 but ISU cut off freshmen applications in April because it could not afford to hire more teachers to accommodate the increase.