Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Serving Lincoln County for more than a century!
Vote for incorporation nearly unanimous in 1902
On Saturday, September 13, 1902, Odessa voters overwhelmingly approved a proposition for the incorporation of their town.
The Record notes the 100th anniversary of this even elsewhere in this issue, but reprints below an editorial which appeared in the September 19, 1902, on what incorporation meant to the community.
The editorial is prophetic about Odessa’s future, much of which turned out to be true:
Last Saturday the citizens of this community wrote a new page in the history of the town when, by an almost unanimous vote, it was decided to incorporate.
This new phase of the town’s history, i...
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