Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Pioneer hardware store changed hands 88 years ago
Frank and Leo Guth were among Odessa’s first business operators.
Just as the town was incorporated in 1902, several new businesses opened to make Odessa a full service center. Among them were the flour mill, built and operated by Portland Flouring Mills; the Odessa mercantile, later to become the long-running Michaelsen & Koth general store, and the Odessa Hardware & Implement Company, founded by the Guths.
Some of Odessa’s pioneer wheat growers were major stockholders in the Guth’s firms, which sold shelf hardware, farm implements, wagons, buggies and later automobiles.
Frank Guth sold his in...
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