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1 Years Ago The Odessa Record August 3, 1917 Crab creek fish reported dying: Reports from J.B. Webster and Mrs. T.J. McDermott plainly show that there are large numbers of fish dying either in Crab creek or the channel in Sylvan lake. In an interview in with Mrs. McDermott who lives on the creek a short distance from the foot of the lake, she stated that dead fish were so numerous near their place that in a stretch of water not more than a couple of rods in length she...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record July 27, 1917 Guard against grain fires. Representative E.L. Farnsworth has asked the Record to publish this week a few suggestions offered by State Insurance Commissioner H.O. Fishback as the best means for guarding against fires which might destroy either standing grain or that stacked or being threshed. At this time when the loss of a single bushel of grain may mean hunger for some one dependent upon the bushel for sustenance, it will be...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record July 20, 1917 Odessa player win from Lind. The Odessa racquet wielders were again victorious in the return tournament at Lind Sunday. The weather was so hot that only six of the most enthusiastic local players ventures to make the 30 mile trip across the country with the mercury ranging near the 100 mark, but those that went were royally entertained by the Lind players and they report that this tournament was one of the best in which they ever...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record July 13, 1917 Military draft next Saturday. It will only be a few days until the public will know exactly who has been chosen from each community to make up the army of 687,000 men that will be called on to follow the colors to France or other places where they are most needed. The drawing will be held Saturday and in all probability the state of Washington’s quota by draft for this army will be less than 4000 men. The present population of the United States is estimated to be a little over 103...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record July 6, 1917 Odessa boy ordained priest. “And I will go in to the altar of my God: to God who giveth joy to my youth.” These words of Holy Writ spoken by the Psalmist of old, were most deeply impressed upon the minds of all that attended the Tuesday morning service at the St. Joseph’s church when Rev. Paul Kucera of the Benedictine monastery at Lacey, Washington, sang his first solemn high mass at his old home church. Father Paul is the oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. F.L. Kucera of Odessa. He wa...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record June 29, 1917 Tennis tourney won by Odessa. The tennis tournament Sunday between Lind and Odessa tennis clubs furnished some close and, in spite of the unfavorable tennis weather, very enjoyable matches. Very little playing has been done on Odessa courts this season and the tourney was gotten up in such short notice that it would have been no surprise had the local racquet wielders been forced to take the short end of the score, but such was...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record June 22, 1917 Big crowd will celebrate here. Where are you going to celebrate the Fourth? You will miss it if you dont celebrate in Odessa for the biggest crowd that ever came to town is looked for here on the July 4th and 5th and the celebration will eclipse any celebration in the Big Bend country. The big posters announcing the main features are now out and are being distributed by the committee and on this page will be found the full program...
Last week’s history column included a picture of local volunteers Leslie Fink and Rhonda Kuch painting. The article that should have accompanied the picture unfortunately hit the cutting room floor for lack of space. The story was from 25 years ago and had to do with the new pool that had just been built, and the volunteers were painting the interior of the dressing rooms. The entire column for 25 years ago can be read on The Odessa Record’s website, issue of May 18, 2017, at www.odessarecord.com. 100 years ago The Ode...
1 years ago The Odessa Record May 18, 1917 Big convention May 31-June 3. Odessa is scheduled to entertain what promises to be one of the largest conventions ever held in this section of the big Bend when the Pacific Brotherhood Conference of the German congregational churches convenes here at the Pilgrim Congregational church from May 31 to June 3. There are three Congregational churches in Odessa the Pilgrim, the St. Mathews and the English and while this conference will be...
1 Years Ago The Odessa Record May 11, 1917 Six Odessa boys answer the call. Arthur Schatz was one of the smallest young men in Odessa, too short by an inch to meet either army or navy specifications, but he certainly started something when he left Saturday for Spokane where he enlisted in Uncle Sam’s aviation corps. The ice being broken, six more young men, John A. Schoonover, Cecil Jenks, Otto Wagner, Edward Johnson, Virgil Harrison and Edward Weber, all fit for any branch of service left for Spokane to take the examinatio...
1 years ago The Odessa Record February 16, 1917 Catholics build house and hall. The members of the Odessa St. Joseph's Catholic Church have announced a change in the building program they had outlined for this spring and arrangements are now completed for the enlargement of the plans, which originally only called for a home for Father Phillip so they now include also a parish hall, both of which will be under one roof, the hall to occupy the basement floor. The estimated...
1 years ago The Odessa Record February 9, 1917 Rabid dog raids southwest farms. The southwest Odessa country had its first case of rabies early Monday morning, when a rabid brute, opinions differ as to whether it was a dog or coyote, ran at large in the Doering and Smith neighborhood. The animal first appeared at the Solomon Doering ranch about 12 miles from Odessa where it bit his dog. It then went to the John Doering place where it bit a dog and some stock. From there it went to Otto Reich's place where it bit a dog and c...
1 years ago The Odessa Record February 2, 1917 Auto licenses for 1917-18. Secretary of State I.M. Howell is already making preparations for handling the 1917 rush, when all machines in the state must be re-licensed. Howell will issue the licenses and wrap up the new number plates and hold both in readiness for mailing. The scheme can only be used by those who carried licenses for 1916, for otherwise a man purchasing a new car could make application with the county auditor...
1 years ago The Odessa Record January 12, 1917 Fire boys hold annual meeting. The Odessa fire boys met for their annual meeting and election of officers at city hall Friday night. Secretary Scholer’s fire record showed that during the year 1916, had received seven calls, the largest number in the history of the department, to fires where it was necessary to turn on water. Only one of these, the livery barn fire got beyond control. Bounty offered for coyotes. On the urgent recommendation of Game Warden W.G. Mathews, the comm...
1 years ago The Odessa Record December 8, 1916 O.C.B. remodeling the opera house. “The Odessa Concert Band’s opening dance at their new home in the opera house Thanksgiving night was a decided success. Over 60 couples were in attendance.” [Editor’s note: The remainder of the article is paraphrased below.] The condition of the floor was not considered up to standard by the band members, however, and plans were made to refurbish the floor and remodel the building that the band had purchased. A.R. Mead, C.N. Clark and Fred Sc...
1 years ago November 10, 1916 Michaelsen & Koth safe blowed open Saturday morning. Considerable excitement prevailed in our town Saturday morning when the report was passed around that the Michaelsen & Koth store had been burglarized that morning and over $400 in cash obtained as the result of the yeggmen’s efforts. The robbery took place about 3 a.m. and the entrance to the store gained through a plate glass in the side street door which was cut and pushed inside. After gaining admittance the robbers prepared for their exi...
1 years ago The Odessa Record September 22, 1916 Henry Clough is once more free: Henry Clough is free again. After having served over two months in the Spokane county jail awaiting trial on the charge of using the United States mails for fraudulent purposes, the secretary of the "Odessa University," an institution located in a small rock cabin a few miles east of Odessa, was released from custody by Federal Judge Rudkin last Friday and later the United States department of...
After 52 years, and more than 40 of those years at the Spokane Interstate Fairgrounds, the Inland Empire Railway Historical Society has a permanent home! Formed in 1976, the group rebranded itself two years ago as the Inland Northwest Rail Museum to more clearly define the goals of the organization. The primary goal was to find a home for the group's collection of railcars and historical memorabilia. Roughly two years ago (August 2014), excitement began to build as...
1 years ago The Odessa Record August 18, 1916 Popular Odessa couple wed. A pretty ceremony took place Monday morning at the St. Joseph Catholic church, when Miss Mary Shimek became the bride of Jason Bastrom Jr. The ceremony was performed by Fr. Philipp, while Miss Hildegarde Guth, organist Our Lady of Lourdes cathedral of Spokane, presided at the organ. The bride is the daughter of J.F. Shimek, proprietor of Shimek's hardware and has grown to young womanhood in this city. The groom is employed in the John Schafer store...
1 years ago The Odessa Record August 11, 1916 The interior of the Empress Theatre has been improved by the addition of a new curtain. The curtain contains advertisements of the principal business houses of the town and is the work of J.M. Deeds a scenic artist of Spokane. Cooper Bros. will be with us on Wednesday, August 16, with many new and novel features, and it can truthfully be said to be a good one, presenting so many pleasing high-class original feats, acts and wonders, making it now the best of all tented...
1 years ago The Odessa Record August 4, 1916 School building remodeled: Everybody has noticed the improvement of our public school grounds since the planting of the locust trees this spring, of which 65 are now making a great first season’s growth, but there are few that realize that changes have been made on the inside of the building which are even more noticeable. For the fourth time since the organization of the district and the building of the first little frame school house about 16 years ago, new buildings or a...
1 years ago The Odessa Record July 21, 1916 Back from Ellensburg: Ye editor and family returned Sunday evening from Ellensburg where they attended the thirtieth annual meeting of the Washington State Press Association, making the trip overland. Inquiries before starting as to the condition of the Vantage ferry road, received all kinds of answers from good to bad and indifferent, and making the trip proved that all were right at least in spots. With the exception, however,...
1 years ago The Odessa Record March 24, 1916 Union State Bank remodeling room. The work of remodeling the Union State bank is now rapidly nearing completion, and it now, both in arrangement and finish, presents a decidedly metropolitan aspect. There are plenty of larger banking rooms in Eastern Washington than the Union State, but there are none in the rural districts and very few in the larger cities that can excel its present appearance. The office proper now consists of a square 20 x 30 feet, with two cashier’s w...
The Odessa Record of March 17, 1916, included a front-page column on doings from 14 years prior. Since The Record has no archives from 1902, so we include it in this issue. Notes of interest to old timers. Frank Schmierer bought a half section of land near Quincy last week at $9 per acre. Christian Doering and family of Parkston, S.D. arrived and will locate south of town. W.P. Mitchell, prosperous stockman is having an addition biuilt on to his residence east of town. Mr....
