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Knitters, crocheters, spinners, weavers and fiber artists know that a beautiful result starts with high quality materials. Join the Okanogan Valley Fiber Association for a celebration of our excellent local yarns and the people who produce and work with them. This free event happens Saturday, May 17, 2014, at the Okanogan County Fairgrounds Commercial Building, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Bring your lawn chair and join a knitting or spinning circle, learn new fiber skills at a workshop, shop the local fiber products offered at the...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record April 10, 1914 Mme. Rosa D’Erina and G.R. Vontom were scheduled to appear at the Opera House the following Tuesday. The entertainers were secured for Odessa through the efforts of Rev. Fr. J.B. Herman of the local Catholic church. D’Erina was the Irish prima donna soprano and world-renowned lady organist. She was to be assisted by Mr. G. R. Vontom, the tenor and humorist, and both had appeared before the president of the United States and Queen Alexander, of England, and in hundreds of...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record April 3, 1914 The John Schafer store was burglarized and $414.43 was taken from the till besides three pairs of socks and one odd sock and nearly two boxes of chewing gum. Entrance was gained through a cellar window which the robbers had pried open and exit was made in the same way. No trace of the robbers has been discovered, but Mr. Schafer thinks it probable it was done by some one who was acquainted with the store and the stock, as would be indicated by the robbers having taken only...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record March 20, 1914 Odessa was grieved to learn last Saturday noon of the death of one of its formost businessmen and citizens, Edward J. Kriegler. Coming to Washington state as one of the men who pioneered this country when the Big Bend was little more than a vast expanse of sage brush , he established one of the first business enterprises in this part of Lincoln county, and since the first day he came here he has been a factor in the upbuilding and advancement of Odessa. His activities in...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record March 13, 1914 The school district, by vote, refused to bond itself for the purchase of a civic center, 135 to 68. The Odessa concert band has opened a dance hall in the Kreigler-Page block and will give a series of dances to furnish money for the organization C.C. Dobson is driving a nifty new 1914 Ford runabout. Gottlieb Schatz returned Wednesday with a new, 1914, 32-horsepower Detroiter. He and Fred Goetz having taken the agency for Odessa. A.C. Schy has opened a two-chair barber shop i...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record March 6, 1914 What will probably be the largest field of corn in southern Lincoln county this year, will be planted this spring by John D. Schimke on his place two miles north of town. The field will consist of 35 acres, and will be planted directly adjoining the main Odessa-Wilbur road. If the crop proves successful, Mr. Schimke will erect a silo this fall. More than 10,000 ducks claim Lincoln county for their feeding ground during the season, according to a report by the Lincoln county...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record February 27, 1914 County Superintendent Wm. U. Neeley strongly endorsed the plan for a new civic center auditorium. Neeley wrote a letter in which he pointed out his view of the situation. The civic center movement has doubtless done more for the widening of the public school system than any other one movement in the past half century. While it is comparatively new to our state, the plan has been successfully carried out in many other states, especially in the State of Wisconsin. The...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record February 20, 1914 An advertisement for Union State Bank showed a picture of a sliver of moon outside a window with a shady character in a hat lurking at the bottom of the window. The advertisement read in big letters, “ Burglars can’t get your money when it is safe in our bank”. Underneath it read, “In December 1902 Judge Lewis and wife, an aged couple, were brutally murdered at their ranch between Odessa and Almira. They were known to habitually keep large sums of money about their p...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record February 13, 1914 Twelve new steel bridge will be built in Lincoln County this year. Steel for the dozen county bridges to be built this year, one of them 60 feet, will span Wilson Creek south of Odessa. The second division of the Ladies Aid of the Congregational church made in excess of $25 by putting on a playlet called “How the Story Grew”. It was the story of someone moving into an empty house in town and the news traveling from kitchen to kitchen around town. Excellent music was ren...
NOVEMBER $20,000 was awarded to the Odessa Chamber of Commerce by the Lincoln County Board of Commissioners. The money will be used to fund the WSDA-certified community commercial kitchen within the Odessa community center. Transmessis Columbia Plateau is the new name of the Odessa biodiesel plant, formerly known as Inland Empire Oilseeds, LLC. An investor group from Houston, Texas is providing the financial backing required by the Odessa Public Development Authority (OPDA) prior to signing the agreement to lease the...
1 years ago From The Odessa Record February 6, 1914 The Department of Agriculture issued a bulletin stating that the land of eastern Washington, eastern Oregon and northern Idaho was well-suited to adding beans as an additional crop besides cereal crop. 15 years experience showed that as good cereal crops can be grown following beans as after an ordinary summer fallow. The cultivation of the bean crops replaces the work necessary to care for the fallow and leaves the soil in excellenct condition for seeding winter wheat....
SEPTEMBER The Cattle Producers of Washington held a grand opening for the new meat processing plant. It was held at the Odessa Industrial Park. The Livestock Processors Cooperative Association (LPCA) is processing cattle, pigs, goats and sheep. Maureen Sheldon (Mo) was hired as the new hospital administrator. The town council debated how to comply with the law legalizing marijuana use and sales. Chris Costlow, Mark Worley and Johnny Walter resued two men in a car crash near Othello early in the morning on their way to fishing...
1 years ago From the Odessa Record January 30, 1914 Great Northern Railroad (GNW) endorsed an experimental dry farm station near Odessa in a letter from F.W. Graham, the western industrial agent of the GNW in Seattle to Odessa station agent, W.L. Moseley. The farm was proposed to be as close to Odessa and the railroad as possible. It was to act as a landmark and advertising for the commercial club. The Cascade Scenic Highway was being planned through the Cascade mountains starting construction as soon as weather permitted....
JULY Mike Perry proudly reported on the Odessa-Harrington athletic cooperative for winter and spring sports seasons. High-school girls basketball finished with a league record of 3-7. High-school boys finished with a league record of 7-3. The boys were crowned district champions. High-school baseball team had a league record of 16-0, finishing as district champs. The high-school golf team took second place at district. The high-school tennis team had three out of seven girls qualify for district; one girl qualifying for...
May Odessa FBLA won an award for Outstanding Chapter of the Year . The Titan golfers took third in the NE league. Elizabeth Larson, an eighth grade student in Odessa, was the state winner of the 2013 SunWise with Shade Poster Contest and Kendall Todd was awarded a $5,000 Smart Choices College Scholarship. Jeff Wehr returned as OHS science teacher following a one-year absence. The 22nd Annual Wine Tasting and Auction, sponsored by the Odessa Healthcare Foundation was held to raise funds for a new defibrillator for the...
1 Years Ago From The Odessa Record January 16, 1914 The Odessa commercial club, through its experiment farm committee, has petitioned the governor for the location of a 160-acre demonstration farm at Odessa, to be under the supervision of the Washington State college authorities, and to be made a permanent part of that institution. While nothing definite can be expected from the petition at present, it is thought that Odessa’s bid for the farm will receive proper attention and the committee and the club itself will make e...
Country churches were to be found every few miles throughout the countryside in the early day Odessa area. Usually they were served by itinerant ministers, who either traveled by horseback or by wagon to where their several congregations. Often it was two or three weeks, sometimes six weeks, before the pastor could make the rounds. The Emmanuel Lutheran church, five miles south of Lauer, was one of the early churches of Odessa rural area. But just as the trend was way from the country churches as these congregations...
It was the week between Christmas and New Year’s in 1913, and farmers southwest of Odessa in the Batum area were apprehensive about the sausage thieves, who were raiding their smoke houses. Most farmers were in the habit of making sausage after butchering pork during the winter months. One hundred years ago, an era before refrigeration, the sausage was hung out to cure and was smoked and various cuts of pork were put up in jars for use during the following year. Reports coming in from Batum and Moody indicate there are a b...
Though Christmas was a quiet day, it was a merry one, especially for the little folks of Odessa. Christmas gifts and Christmas cheer in the shape of confections, nuts and other dainties, in which the little ones entered into the occasion could not bring back memories that made all feel younger and better for the day. Christmas eve was an exceptionally joyous one for the boys and girls as the Presbyterian, Methodist and the German Congregational Sunday schools furnished their pupils and friends with Christmas trees and...
The Odessa Record of December 1924, in a report headlined “Holiday Season Is Drawing Near,” told of brisk sales in stores, the free distribution of Christmas trees and plans for church programs. With the moderation of the weather during the past week, which has made it so warm that the puddles in the streets did not freeze last night, one can hardly realize that the holiday season is so close at hand. Merchants report that Christmas buying started early and that business has been good, so it is up to people who want to get...
The Great Depression was at its peak as Christmas approached in 1930. Farmers hadn’t had much of a crop the preceding summer because of drought and dust storms, and what little wheat there was to sell was going for 36 cents a bushel. All the hardships, however, didn’t preclude the hopes and dreams of Christmas time. Thoughts of Santa filled the air. It reflects the mood of Odessa just before the holiday 83 years ago. With the beginning of the holiday season only five days away, the spirit of Christmas impregnates the air her...
Churches were to be found every few miles throughout the countryside in the early days of the Odessa area. Usually they were served by itinerant ministers, who either traveled by horseback or by wagon to serve their several congregations. Often, it was two or three weeks, sometimes six weeks, before the pastor could make the rounds again. The Emmanuel Lutheran Church, five miles south of Lauer, was one of the early churches of the Odessa rural area. Four hundred and fifty people filled the new Emmanuel Lutheran Church south...
Chuck Wood, Gig Harbor, Wash., Aerie Historian, sent to The Record this list of people who joined the Odessa Eagles. According to Wood, Eddie Kern, number 61 on the list, is the last living member of Aerie 3069. Wood continued “Besides being the secretary, he was also the worthy president, which he told me. He still has his gold card which is given to past presidents. He is proud of that card.” Wood requested The Record print the list “as the original from Grand Aerie is not on the computer anymore....
Three persons were killed in a fiery airplane crash 79 years ago in Farrier Coulee, 19 miles southwest of Odessa. The accident, which occurred on November 12, 1934,. was the Odessa area’s first air disaster. Here is the report in The Odessa Record of November 16, 1934: “Burned to a crisp when their airplane crashed, burst into flames and was destroyed in Farrier Coulee. Monday afternoon at 2:15 , the bodies of Three Wenatchee men were found and were taken to Ritzville and later to Wenatchee after identity had been est...
Growth and progress were in the minds of almost everyone in the fall of 1960. The town’s population had reached an all-time high. A home building boom was continuing. Downtown, new businesses were opening. Also prominent on page was announcement of plans for the nursing home in Odessa as part of a $314,000 expansion program of Odessa Memorial Hospital. The Odessa Convalescent Center was opened in 1963. Here is The Record’s report appearing 53 years ago this week: The Odessa Memorial Hospital administrator, speaking to mem...
