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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
100 years ago
From The Odessa Record
February 13, 1914
Twelve new steel bridge will be built in Lincoln County this year. Steel for the dozen county bridges to be built this year, one of them 60 feet, will span Wilson Creek south of Odessa.
The second division of the Ladies Aid of the Congregational church made in excess of $25 by putting on a playlet called “How the Story Grew”. It was the story of someone moving into an empty house in town and the news traveling from kitchen to kitchen around town. Excellent music was rendered during the evening by the music committee.
75 years ago
From The Odessa Record
February 9, 1939
The city council decided that dances would have to close at 1p.m. in compliance with state law.
Buttercups are in flower. Despite the snowfall and blizzards of the past week; two different children have brought buttercups to the Record office. First prize winner was Jacqueline Haskins, who picked the flower Sunday afternoon. Tuesday brought the second one, picked by Bonnie Jean Delzer.
The Odessa Union Warehouse has started work on a new warehouse, 60 x 150, a structure designed to provide exceptional storage space for sacked grain.
Sol Reiman says the organization has its own concrete mixer and can furnish concrete men, carpenters, and laborers to complete the job without looking for outside help.
50 years ago
From The Odessa Record
February 13, 1964
Mr. and Mrs. Ab Davies returned home from a winter vacation in Mexico. Their headquarters were on the west coast at Manzanilla, about 280 miles west of Guadalajara.
John J. Laib, 74, retired rancher of Odessa, drowned shortly before noon Tuesday in O’Sullivan Reservior while on an ice fishing trip. Several Odessa men were at the scene. Laib was fishing by himself about 100 yards from other fishermen.
25 years ago
From The Odessa Record February 9, 1989
Lincoln County Public Hospital District No. 1 which supports the Odessa Memorial Hospital, its nursing home and the adjacent Odessa Clinic, passed its $395,000 levy proposal in a landslide Tuesday, garnering 378 of 463 valid votes cast here.
10 years ago
From The Odessa Record February 12, 2004
Biergarten sales during Deutsches Fest 2003 reached an all-time high of $71,645.32, it was reported at the meeting of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce.
Joe Wollman, a longtime Odessa civic leader, was elected president of the Odessa Chamber of Commerce.
Every householder in Odessa received a backflow questionnaire from the Town Of Odessa to determine whether there were any special plumbing or activities that could pose a risk of contamination to the town’s water distribution system. The installation of backflow prevention assemblies is now required by state law and town ordinance to prevent polllutants and contaminants from entering the public water supply.
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