Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
A 12-year-old Odessa school girl submitted the winning entry in the Odessa Commercial Club’s slogan for Odessa contest conducted 100 years ago this month.
“We Like Odessa, So Will You” was the slogan selected by the club in March 1913 and imprinted upon the seal, which with the familiar wheat sheaf is still in use today, appearing on the letterhead of the Town of Odessa and on all the town’s vehicles.
The contest winner was Esther Deets. Her Prize? A pair of shoes.
Esther Deets is the 12-year-old daughter of Charles T. Deets, cashier of the Union State Bank. Esther is a member of the sixth grade.
The slogan was adopted by the Odessa Commercial Club and will be used on the club’s stationery and literature in the future. The publicity committee, consisting of H.C. Phillips, K.R. Edmunds, Dr. Lee Ganson, E.J. Kriegler and Fred Thiel, is preparing the matter for a six-page folder containing information about Odessa and the surrounding area, which will be used for general distribution.
More than 50 different slogans were submitted to the committee by the students of the upper grade and high school.
100 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
February 28, 1913
A controversy as to whether the crow is a friend or an enemy to the farmer, has been started as the result of the passage in the senate of the bill to allow county commissioners if they see fit to place a bounty as high as twenty-five cents apiece on crows and magpies.
H.O. Fishback, state insurance commissioner, believes that the crow is an enemy to the farmer, and especially to the chicken raiser or truck gardener.
75 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
March 3,1938
Work on blading the roads in this area was held up during the early part of the week by showers that fell Tuesday.
The greatest need at the present time, it is stated, is to have a state blading crew pass through town evening the surface of the portion of the street adjoining the oil, where gravel, placed last winter, has become a problem, causing high knolls.
50 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
February 28,1963
An estimated 400 people attended the open house at the Memorial hospital and nursing home on Sunday and expressed their pleasure at the improvements that had been incorporated into the new addition.
They were told that during an average month the hospital contributes more than $7000 to the area economy in the form of payroll and local purchases.
Washington wheat growers sell about 80% of their annual crop to rice-eating peoples in the Far East. Some 48 million bushels of Washington wheat were sold to India, Japan, Pakistan and the Philippines during the 1961-62 crop year, reports Milton Reinbold, Davenport, president of the Lincoln county association of wheat growers.
25 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
March 3, 1988
This year, eight junior girls entered the Junior Miss contest. They are: Kelly Schafer, Teresa Repp, Wendy Jantz, Tawnya Goetz, Susan Wallace, Lisa Derr, Jean Smith and Becki Jantz.
The Lincoln County history book, part of the planned centennial celebration in 1989, has been christened Lincoln County, A Lasting Legacy.
More than a dozen members of the Odessa community heard a proposal for alternate medical coverage from John Osse, president of Business and Health Alliance of America.
A strong underlying purpose for the program is the support it provides local rural hospitals. Because of changes in health care philosophies leading to outpatient preference over inpatient care, and due to changes in reimbursement formulas by federal and private health agencies and insurance companies, rural hospital districts are suffering decreased revenues.
10 Years Ago
From The Odessa Record
March 6, 2003
The Odessa School District’s Board of Directors voted unanimously Tuesday to offer Doug Johnson the position of superintendent of schools.
The 16 Washington rural hospitals impacted by the cut in ProShare financial assistance for nursing homes in Governor Gary Lockes’ state budget for the next biennium this week held hope that the funding would be restored.
Rising costs in operations and the other reasons for the district’s recent cash flow troubles were outlined. There have been huge increases in liability and property insurance coverage costs, Labor & Industries assessments and the cost of supplies.
Reader Comments(0)