Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
They didn’t call them chambers of commerce in those days
They were commercial clubs in all but the larger cities like Spokane.
One hundred and eight years ago this week, the Odessa Commercial Club, forerunner to the Odessa Chamber of Commerce, was organized.
That body, made up of the town’s civic and business leaders, has been an enthusiastic booster of Odessa ever since.
It was designated the Odessa Chamber of Commerce in the 1950s.
Here is the report of its founding, appearing in The Odessa Record on March 11, 1904.
A meeting at the city hall last Tuesday evening for the purpose of planning...
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