This Week in Odessa History

Rain has meant everything throughout Odessa’s history.

When it rains, the crops grow, and the community prospers. When there is a drought, things wither and die.

The Odessa area had just gone through the worst growing and harvest season in its history – which includes up to the present time – in the fall of 1931. It had been a total crop failure at harvest.

A rain in late October, therefore, was welcome news to farmers and to the community as a whole.

Here is The Odessa Record’s report in its issue of October 30, 1931.

Prospects for the farmers in Odessa region brightened this week with an inc...