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Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
People were sought to work agricultural lands
100 years ago
From The Odessa Record
April 17, 1914
The state immigration committee, in an effort to bring more settlers to agricultural lands in Washington, has made a plan to make that happen.
Civic organizations of every community will co-operate with the state immigration bureau in listing all possible farm land, diversified farm land and irrigated land, at reasonable prices, for the purpose of offering to homeseekers, who will come to the Northwest within the next eighteen months, suitable places for making new homes. The plan calls for the handling of these lands on reasonbale terms, with deferred payments covering from five to ten years with interst at 6 per cent.
These lists will be circulated in reply to all inquities received by the state and commercial organizations and furnished in quantities to the railways. In turn the state department of immigration proposes to investigate the various fields, lead the general work on behalf of general immigration into the state and publish literature under the seal of the state in English and foreign languages.
75 years ago
From The Odessa Record
April 6, 1939
A moving outfit from Spokane has been busy during the week bringing houses to Odessa from ranch sites, setting them on foundations here. Otto Wiber brought a house to town on Mondy, placing it alongside of his present home. Aurthur Mayer had a house brought in, locating it on the county road street. The same crew ae turning the house of John Hemmerling, placing it on another part of his lot, permitting construction of another home.
50 years ago
From The Odessa Record
April 16, 1964
Dixie Lee, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Don Schuh, won the title of Best Baby Girl, Inland Empire, in the Spokane Chronicle baby contest that concluded last week.
Advance party personnel for the $5.6 million remodeling program for the Titan I missile launching sites in this area have arrived at Larson Air Force base.
Larson information officials told the Columbia Basin Herald that the latest figure is 1100 men for the three month job, which is scheduled to start about May 15.
Martin-Marietta Corp., prime contractor for the missile installation, will bring in a labor force of about 500 skilled technicians. will be about 600 construction personnel from the regional market, also.
The missile complexes, each housing three missiles, are at Batum, near Odessa; four miles south of Warden, and on the Royal Slope west of Royal City.
25 years ago
From The Odessa Record
April 13, 1989
The February freeze caused a scramble for purchasing spring variety seed, according to the Washington Association of Wheat Growers executive director in warning growers to use caution in interseeding.
There was an extraordinary amount of reseeding going on in eastern Washinton that year and some growers were filling in patches of dead spots in fall sown fields or tearing out their fall work and starting over completely.
In either case, the cost to farmers was substantial and also needed to be done with thought to harvest and marketing time as well.
The association warned farmers about mixing soft white and hard red varieties. They also cautioned against mixing in a new variety grown successfully in California known as Klassic, a hard white variety, which was very different from the hard white varieties grown in this area. The different varieties had to be kept separate for storage and marketing.
10 years ago
From The Odessa Record
April 15, 2004
New park hours were set by the Odessa Town Council because basketball-playing and loud music between 1:30 and 2 o’clock in the morning weren’t compatible with a quiet neighborhood where residents were trying to get a good night’s sleep. It was decided that Odessa parks would be closed from midnight to 6 a.m.
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