This Week in Odessa History

Every spring, early in the past century, students at Lincoln County high school gathered for a tennis tournament combined with oratorical and declamatory contests.

The third annual event of this kind was scheduled to be held in Odessa on May 7 and 8, 1915. The Odessa Record's issue of April 30 that year gave this account of plans for the big meeting.

One of the largest school events in the history of the Big Bend country is scheduled for this town next Friday and Saturday, when the Odessa schools and Odessa citizens play host to the third annual Lincoln County high school tennis tournament and...