This Week in Odessa History

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Sept. 10, 1920

Odessa public schools opened Monday for the 1920-1921 school year. High school enrollment is 51, the largest in the history of the school. The curriculum will be the same as the previous year, with the only change being the addition of the French language. Debate and athletics will continue to be offered. Last year the debate team won the district championship competing against such schools as Wenatchee and North Central and Lewis & Clark of Spokane.

Reports of three mountain lions at the Fred Schneider place north of town, prompting an SOS call via telephone, wrou...