Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Many new residents arrive in 1902
In the March 17, 1966 issue of The Record, Hank Krauss and Dr. Ken Gudgel, two members of the Odessa Lions Club, are shown working on the roof of the newly built shelter at Reiman Park. Just last summer, local Lions Club members put a new metal roof onto the same structure.
The Odessa Record of March 17, 1916, included a front-page column on doings from 14 years prior. Since The Record has no archives from 1902, so we include it in this issue.
Notes of interest to old timers. Frank Schmierer bought a half section of land near Quincy last week at $9 per acre. Christian Doering and family of Parkston, S.D. arrived and will locate south of town.
W.P. Mitchell, prosperous stockman is having an addition biuilt on to his residence east of town.
Mr. R.S. Crowl of Grafton, N.D. has purchased the Odessa Record and takes posession after this issue.
Eight families arrived i...
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Arllyo writes:
The Yellow Bell the children discovered March 1966 might have been a Fritillaria pudica or YellowbBell and not a Buttercup. The Yellowbell is one of the first flowers after the snow melts. Read more here; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritillaria_pudica
03/20/2016, 9:30 pm