Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
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7 Years Ago Oct 26th, 1950 LINCOLN COUNTY GOES ELECTRIC The week marks the tenth anniversary of the date the first Lincoln Cooperative power lines were energized. The Lincoln Electric Cooperative is owned by farmers and serves farms and communities in the area. 30 Years Ago Oct 25, 1990 PROMOTIONS UNDERWAY FOR SERVICE MEN IN THE GULF The owner of a local grocery store is hoping the community will embrace an idea for the holidays that they have taken to heart. Christmas will not be the same this year for several families in...
OCT 19, 1950 70 YEARS AGO MOBILE X-RAY UNIT CHECKS 788 DURNING 3 DAY STOP HERE The number of Davenport persons getting free X-Ray checks for tuberculosis rose to 788, as the mobile unit made its last stop here last Thursday, according to Mrs. Rex F. Carpenter, executive secretary of the county T. B. League. The unit is working in Wilbur today and will be at Creston Friday which will complete its work in Lincoln county. Serving as hostesses for the unit Thursday were Mrs. J.D. McChallum, Mrs. Ira Rowe, Mrs. C.G Dekker, Mrs....
October 5th, 1950 GORILLAS STAY UNBEATEN WITH A 13-6 WIN OVER RITZVILLE In a Friday night game, Deral Boleneus took a fourth quarter pass from Bob McCaffery and ran 25 yards for a touch down. Davenport claimed a 13-6 win over Ritzville on the Bronc’s home field Friday evening.The win kept the Gorilla’s undefeated record intact. October 8TH, 1970 LARGE LINCOLN COUNTY DELAGATION ATTENDS 4-H FAIR IN PUYALLUP Because of their outstanding achievements at the County level 46 4-H’ers from Lincoln County gained the right to repre...
1 years ago July 16, 1920 At a sparsely attended meeting, the Odessa Community Hall stockholders elected a board of directors for the ensuing year. After only a short discussion of the capable work of the original board of directors, who had served only a few months, the entire board was re-elected by acclamation: W.L. Smith, H.W. Rieke, Sol Reiman, Andrew Janke, Fred Geissler, Fred Lauer and Al Wagner. Contractor Con H. Eckhart reported he was unloading a train car loaded with cement and three carloads of lumber, with...
1 years ago July 9, 1920 Rainmaker Hatfield is reported to have packed up his equipment and left Moses Lake last week. Although many gave him credit for bringing when he first set up at the lake, very few had any faith in him as a rainmaker when he left. It is said, however, that he was paid $3,000 for his efforts, as a two-inch rainfall fell in some parts of Grant County in early June. Mill to start soon. The big chain ordered from the factory, for which the mill force has been waiting for about six weeks, finally arrived...
1 years ago July 2, 1920 The following pupils passed their grade school final examination and will enter Odessa High School next year. Frank Koth, Alice Flint, Martha Suchland, Charlotte Smith, Hazel Luiten, Eugene Weber, Lottie Veleck, Geneva Shelton, Rosie Heimbigner, Lorraine McMenus, Clara McMenus, Aileen Phillips, Arthur Ganson, Alice Weber, Bertha Kubillus, Martin Horn, Bruce Jones, Zelma Walker and Harold Schimke. Chester Bliss, the county speed cop, was here yesterday and picked up two men for infringement of the...
1 years ago June 18, 1920: The drilling of a new town well was completed at a depth of 170 feet. The drilling passed through three different veins of water, and the depth in the well has risen to 140 feet. Drillers were satisfied with water at the 140-foot mark but town council members wanted to take no chance on shortages and had the well lowered another 30 feet. Another landmark is being razed this week to make room for the new community hall. The razed building was only the second erected in Odessa, built in 1900 by Gus...
1 years ago May 28, 1920 The plans and specifications complete, together with the blueprints for the new Community Hall, were received this week by H.W. Rieke, who says the architect’s estimate of the cost is $26,000, lower than once thought because concrete work and labor would cost less here than in a city. Advertising for bids will begin immediately, and it is expected that the successful bidder can begin construction within three weeks. Con H. Eckhart is an Odessa bidder who has been doing contract work in this are for...
1 years ago May 21, 1920 Five young men and women graduated from Odessa High School: Helen Michaelsen, Martha Glass, Ruth Horn, William Huber and Carter Patton. Commencement exercises were held at the English Congregational Church, with school superintendent E.R. Jinnett presenting the diplomas. Owing to heavy drains on the water in Crab creek for irrigation purposes, the water that has been slowly flowing through town for some time past, stopped yesterday, probably not to flow again this season. This a month or two...
1 years ago May 14, 1920 The Odessa vs. Davenport ball game [town team, not high school] broke up in a row in the seventh inning with Odessa leading 5-4. A questionable call was made by the Davenport umpire at home plate after a short fly ball that landed foul, and the Davenport player at third headed for home. Odessa team members and fans said the runner never touched the plate, but the ump ruled him safe. It was also claimed that the runner was off base at the time of the foul pop-up and never returned to tag the base....
ODESSA -- The former "Maytag building" on First Avenue succumbed to a wrecking crew last Saturday. The building had become unstable. It contained no plumbing, no electrical connections and was rapidly losing its roofing material. The current owner decided that preparing the lot for the future was the only viable option at this time....
1 years ago May 7, 1920 Henry H. Becker was arrested and brought before Justice Schoonover Tuesday on the charge of violating the compulsory law that provides that all children under the age of 15 shall attend school regularly. Becker pled guilty and was fined $15 and costs, the fine being remitted providing he sees that all his children attend school regularly the remainder of the school year. Legion plans smoker. The American Legion at their last meeting planned a smoker to be held at the Legion hall on May 12. Two bouts...
1 years ago April 30, 1920 The past week while a little cold nights has been fine growing weather for wheat and its progress has brought smiles to the faces of the farmers. There has not been enough wind to do any damage and another week or ten days will do away with any further danger from that source. Monday and Tuesday temperatures rose into the mid-70s. Since then the weather has been a little cooler and present conditions are favorable for showers or a general rain. F.J. Guth, senior partner in the Odessa Hardware and...
1 years ago April 23, 1920 A special meeting of the Odessa town council met to approve the drilling of a second well to ensure the town’s water supply. Three dry seasons and a lack of snow failed to fill underground streams that some had once thought were inexhaustible. Adequate fire protection was also cited as a factor in the decision. Mr. Streiter at the Odessa schools is the track coach for a group of enthusiastic boys with talent. Herbert Luher may be an Olympian in the discus one day if he continues to improve. He h...
As a student of history, I often wonder what we have learned from historic events in our world. I personally don’t believe history truly repeats itself, but that doesn’t mean there are not parallels. I tend to lean more toward a phrase Mark Twain has been credited for saying: “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” With that in mind, I spent time looking back at what our area experienced in 1918 during the influenza pandemic. I began looking through local his...
Ten Years Ago (2010) Thanks to unseasonably warm temperatures during the past week, many local streams have been running at near capacity levels, including Cottonwood Creek in Davenport’s downtown city park. The water level is substantially above what many locals say they have ever seen there. Some urban flooding has been reported on local streets—and portions of Hawk Creek Ranch Road were closed for a time earlier this week due to water over the roadway. Twenty-Five Years Ago (1995) Northeast Lincoln County had high tid...
1 years ago The Odessa Record January 18, 1920 News updates: Harrington swamped Odessa, 25 to 3, in basketball. Charles Cone is reinstated on the team and it is expected that the team will be able to reverse matters when they play a return game this week. The Great Northern has sent all its oil burning locomotives to Montana and are replacing them with coal burning, faster, smaller engines. With the census under way the Farmers & Merchants bank is offering prizes to the one...
1 years ago The Odessa Record January 11, 1920 News updates: Connie Schlimmer and Miss Hattie Schorzman returned from Wenatchee to announce their marriage there on New Year's day. They have rented a ranch northwest of town. Registration for voting is undergoing another change. The four year period is being cut to two. Naturalized citizens must show their papers when registering, and the status of the father determines the status of the wife and children. State Land...
1 years ago The Odessa Record January 4, 1920 News updates: D. E. Schimke caught the burglar that entered three Odessa business houses. He was sleeping in the old Salsburg elevator and Mr. Schimke kept watch over him while his son, Tolbert, called Marshal Durland. The burglar, who still had Sol Reiman's automatic in possession, was identified as a man that was wanted in three counties and he was bound over to the superior court. New officers of the Masonic lodge include A. M...
1 years ago The Odessa Record December 28, 1919 News updates: Christmas business in Odessa was the best in years, even with a shortage of some lines of merchandise. Postmaster Schoonover reports postal business at 25 percent over last year. There were a lot of disappointed kiddies when the town's quota of Christmas trees failed to arrive. They had been shipped on the 17th and were finally located on a siding 10 miles from where they started. They arrived on Christmas eve,...
1 years ago The Odessa Record December 21, 1919 News updates: Odessa high school won its second start of the debate series by winning from Wenatchee high school. Helen Michaelsen, William Huber and Frank Schy were the team. The Rev. J. Charles Evans and T. J. McDermott Jr., have been named as census takers, to start after the first of the year. O. E. Finstad has purchased the Davies store and it will be known as Ole’s place. The cold wave which up to Monday caused the temperatures to range from 24 to 14 below, broke T...
1 years ago The Odessa Record December 14, 1919 News updates: Temperatures dropped to 25 degrees below zero, the coldest on record since Jan. 19, 1913, when it dropped to 19 below. The government order to cut down train service will not effect the locals operating on the Great Northern, company officials state. Increases in wages from $10 to $20 a month has been approved for the Odessa teachers. Edwin A. Zabel, former Odessa boy who has been superintendent of schools at Frazier, Idaho, will give a poetic recital here this...
1 years ago The Odessa Record December 7, 1919 News updates: Weber, Schimke and Schatz as councilmen and Reiman as treasurer were elected without a dissenting vote at the city election. A blizzard, followed by zero weather, hit this week. Summer fallow was swept clean by a strong wind and drifts piled up to a height of five feet. W. C. Raugust of Batum started for Ritzville the morning of the storm and took all day to make the trip. Plumber C. M. Smith was busy thawing out water pipes. North Dakota is sweltering under the...
1 years ago The Odessa Record November 16, 1919 News updates: Odessa had a quiet Armistice day, as contrasted to the noisy one of last year when news came that the war had ended. The town closed for the day and the school for half a day. Captain J. Chas. Evans delivered an address in front of the Union State bank building. The Rev. H.P. Christensen has announced that henceforth he will give sermons in English, every second Sunday. Odessa won last week’s debate with Chelan. The next state debate is with Wenatchee. Two b...
1 years ago The Odessa Record November 2, 1919 News updates: Halloween activities included a public gathering at the English Congregational church with booths for fortune telling, apple bobbing, etc. The high school students celebrated at the Masonic hall. Mrs. Alamata Pitts and Mrs. L. L. Black entertained groups. A bunch of boys around town staged a special party for Marshal Durland, climaxed by putting the W. L. Michaelsen cow in the high school assembly room. The "Laugh-...
