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This Week in Odessa History

Owl raids and infrastructure, anniversaries and audits

1 years ago

From The Odessa Record

October 29, 1915

Robbers broke into the Schoonover store by prying open a back window and made away with three punch boards, with watch and fob offerings and took $50 from the till. This is the third time that the store has been robbed in the past few months.

75 years ago

From The Odessa Record

October 1940

Paul Gross, operator of a commercial hatchery and poultry establishment at Odessa, has been missing chickens lately and had formed his own suspicions, which proved true on Tuesday evening when he caught the culprit alive. It was the work of a large owl,...

 

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