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Owl raids and infrastructure, anniversaries and audits
100 years ago
From The Odessa Record
October 29, 1915
Robbers broke into the Schoonover store by prying open a back window and made away with three punch boards, with watch and fob offerings and took $50 from the till. This is the third time that the store has been robbed in the past few months.
75 years ago
From The Odessa Record
October 1940
Paul Gross, operator of a commercial hatchery and poultry establishment at Odessa, has been missing chickens lately and had formed his own suspicions, which proved true on Tuesday evening when he caught the culprit alive. It was the work of a large owl, found at work in the coop. Gross knocked it rolling with a stick and put it in a box for exhibit.
Two youths of the Odessa area led the 4-H beef cattle exhibits at the Portland Livestock exposition early this month. Elmer Gettman won first place with his shorthorn steer. Second place went to Wayne Walter.
50 years ago
From The Odessa Record
October 28, 1965
Weishaars celebrate Golden Anniversary. Fred Weishaar and Louise (Lucy) Deife Weishaar were set to celebrate 50 years of marriage on October 31 at the United Congregational Church in Odessa. They were married on that date in 1915 at the old Friedenseld Congregational Church 14 miles north of Odessa with Rev. Albert Reiman officiating.
New bridge under construction. Concrete is being poured on the new highway bridge in Odessa. Forms were completed and the heavy steel reinforcing installed by the first of the week with concrete being placed Tuesday morning.
25 years ago
From The Odessa Record
October 25, 1990
The area firm of Leffel, Otis & Warwick, Certified Public Accountants, has come through a voluntary peer review of its practices with a perfect mark. Odessa manager Todd King, one of five shareholders in the firm, said the independent review of accounting and auditing practices is a requirement for membership in the private companies’ practice section of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
10 years ago
From The Odessa Record
October 27, 2005
In a town hall meeting, community members were to be asked to help solve the $100,000 shortfall in the Odessa Memorial Healthcare Center’s $3.4 million infrastructure renovation project.
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