Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Pioneer hardware store changed hands 88 years ago
Frank and Leo Guth were among Odessa’s first business operators.
Just as the town was incorporated in 1902, several new businesses opened to make Odessa a full service center. Among them were the flour mill, built and operated by Portland Flouring Mills; the Odessa Mercantile and the Odessa Hardware & Implement Company, founded by the Guths.
Some of Odessa’s pioneer wheat growers were major stockholders in the Guth’s firms, which sold shelf hardware, farm implements, wagons, buggies and later automobiles.
Frank Guth sold his interest in the firm 88 years ago. It was the beginning of the end for the early day business, which by 1928 was out of business, the victim of changing times and merchandising methods and stiff competition from new implement dealers and farm suppliers in Odessa.
100 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
September 19, 1913
Odessa presented the appearance of a deserted village the fore part of this week due to the opening of the duck season. The duck season called out about 50 local sportsmen last Sunday and Monday, and their homecoming Monday evening brought generally favorable reports. Several returned with the full limit of 20 birds.
75 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
September 22,1938
Lincoln county power commissioners reported they were conferring with Washington Water Power company officials regarding purchase of the company‘s distributing lines in this county and the price the company would charge for wholesale power.
Con S. Heimbigner was admitted to United States citizenship at the fall naturalization hearings conducted at Davenport.
50 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
September 19,1963
With the missile workers missing, Odessa dropped 178 from last year’s census, but is strong at 1,267 persons.
Davenport remains the largest town in the county with 1,460 followed by Odessa and then Wilbur at 1,140.
Populations of the 267 municipalities in Washington combined to 1,796,926.
10 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
September 11, 2003
Nancy Glines has been named associate of The Odessa Record.
In this position she is responsible for office management, bookkeeping, advertising coordination and various other business aspects of the newspaper.
She also is associated on the editorial side as a photographer and feature writer.
25 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
September 15, 1988
Final preparations in the booth at the Community center involved the Richard Voise clan,, who with a bit of outside help were putting together the sausage links to be smoked and sold during Deutsches Fest at the Bier garten.
The Odessa Community Float continues to garner top medals during it appearances in parades throughout eastern Washington. Over the labor Day weekend, float personnel took it to Ritzville for the Wheat Land Communities’ Fair where it won the Grand Sweepstakes award. Two days later at Warden, the local float cruised to a win as well, bringing home the Grand Sweepstakes award from the town’s Community Days parade.
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