Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Rain delayed wheat harvest, produced another in 1940
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From The Odessa Record
October 15, 1915
Bank robber kills himself. A lone bandit walked into the Wilson Creek State Bank during the lunch hour last Saturday and forced C.T. Griesinger, assistant cashier, who was alone, at the point of a gun to enter the vault. He then turned the combination lock on the vault door and took all of the gold and currency and a part of the silver in the money changer, about $1,200, helped himself to an automatic pistol under the teller’s window and walked out the front door.
He ended his life three hours later, after being severely wounded in a battle...
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