Looking Back

1 years ago

Doris Jayne, 10 year old Davenport girl was burned to death while sleeping in a shack on her father’s farm south of town. The girl was spending the weekend at the farm to keep house for her father and the farm hands.

A second test train passed through Odessa. New engine 2129 made the trip from Wilson Creek to Odessa in one hour and 2 minutes which was 18 minutes less than the old engine.

75 years ago

A pre-harvest inventory of warehouses in Davenport, Rocklyn, Mondovi and Omans has shown that there are some 30,000 less bushels stored at present than there were at the same time la...