100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

Nov. 14, 1926

Excursion Trains Visit Odell Lake

Sixteen hundred people from Portland and other parts of western Oregon Sunday visited the heart of the mid state Cascades, Odell lake, and saw the “roof of Oregon,” timber mantled, basking under an Indian summer sun. The 1,600 people stopped at Odell lake when making a trip over the new Southern Pacific line between Eugene and Klamath Falls.

The visitors from western Oregon made the trip into the mid state Cascades on two trains, according to Bend people who were present. The two long excursion trains pulled through the big tunnel under the Cascade divide and stopped on the shore of Odell for some 30 minutes while the hundreds of passengers got out of the coaches and saw the mountain lake in its November beauty.

Skaters In Favor of Outdoor Rink

Bend will, weather being favorable, have ice skating this winter, but it will not be on an indoor rink, it was the opinion of local winter sport enthusiasts today, following a…