Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Civic leaders campaigned for growth in 1909
Odessa has grown into the community it is today as a result of civic leadership.
Back when the town was new, the Odessa Commercial Club, later to become the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, campaigned for new businesses, recruited new residents and sought better roads and railroad schedule.
The Odessa Record in its issue of April 16, 1909, gave this report of the meeting of the Commercial Club held earlier that week.
The monthly meeting of the Odessa Commercial Club was held at the Town Hall Tuesday evening, and several matters of interest to the town were considered. A new booklet issued by the cl...
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