Love - The Odessa Record

Odessa Record subscriber Larry Fisher of Spokane continues

his series of articles on the

history of the Batum/Lauer area where his wife, the fo

rmer Joyce Kiesz, grew up.

Hi, here I am again.

Louise Weishaar Hemmerling has many memories of the fa

rm, which was in the Lauer area (TS20N,

R33E, in sections 20 & 30). It was here that her family was

raised. The house was enlarged. Travel

wasn’t easy, for the dirt roads were graded but once a y

ear. Highway 21 was then a graveled county road.

In 1924, the Hemmerling’s built a new house. But there was no elec

tricity in the country. They installed

an...