This Week in Odessa History

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From The Odessa Record

June 18, 1915

Headline: Big crowd coming to celebrate in Odessa

The biggest 4th of July celebration is Eastern Washington is to be held on Friday and Saturday, July 2 and 3, in Odessa. Crop prospects, the best ever known in the Big Bend country, promise a record-breaking crowd for the town on those two days and the committees in charge of the big event here are making preparations to give every visitor to Odessa the best time they ever had.

The celebration is to open with cannon salutes at sunrise on Friday. By 9 o'clock, when the automobile parade opens, i...