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Once upon a time in Ada

Posted by LizGH on Saturday, June 22, 2019

This is the beard contest entries in the Ada 1953 centennial celebration.
Back row from left, Wayne Cooney, farmer; Ted Hulbert, Donavin Dunbar, Ex-Cell-O; Bill Gilbert, Calvin Crouse, mail carrier; Bob Tipple, dentist; Daryl Baker, hardware owner.
Front from left, Harry Krofft, banker; Bob Krofft, post office; Alva Casper, painter; Russell Reese, newsstand owner; unidentified, unidentified, Park Shrider.
(From Leland Crouse collection)

 

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Once upon a time in Ada

Local ghost story
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, June 15, 2019

By Leland Crouse
[email protected]
From Small Town Sampler, by Betty Miller
October 24, 1990
Sitting in a group of friends one of the ladies brought up a story about seeing a ghost at her downtown apartment. I had to hear the whole story and went to visit my friend.

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It's Ada's golf team from 1990

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, June 10, 2019

Here's the Ada High School golf team from 1990. It was revived that season after a 9-year hiatus.

Robert Sperling was the coach. Team members, front from left, Tony Archer, Brian Dodge, Marshall Traster, Matt Peiger, Jay Wolke and Angie Mumaugh.

Standing from left, Coach Sperling, Josh Kanode, Josh  Dye, Mike Ring, Paul Mattson, Brian Beckley, Todd Bucher and Matt Scott.

The team used Colonial Hils as its home court in 1990. (From the collection of Lee Crouse)

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You can no longer open these doors

Posted by Fred Steiner on Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Here's an Ada doorway that you can no longer open and pass through. It's the front doors to the old Ada school. How old do you have to be to have opened these doors to go to school?

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Once upon a time in Ada

Civil War era buildings in town
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, June 1, 2019

By Leland Crouse
[email protected]
Small Town Sampler
Betty Miller
The year 1987 may go down in the Ada history books as the year of progress or it may go down as a year of destruction depending on how the future generations define our actions. Some decisions we had no control over. For example, the old Tobias house which stood next to Gardner Drugs on Main awaits destruction back of the post office because of a fire. Professor Axline’s house across from the ONU campus had to be destroyed perhaps so that progress which the automobile gives us could be accommodated.

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1913 Football team

Posted by LizGH on Monday, May 27, 2019

Ada's 1913 Football Team - Here's the Bulldog team that piled up a 7-1 record 47 years ago against such foes as Findlay, Fostoria, Van Wert, Defiance and Sidney.

Front row - Edgar Neiswander, Von Spellman, George Botkins, and Carl Holman.

Middle - Hess Florida, Bart Snyder, Winfield Scott, Jed Corbett, Zeno Adams, Byron Neiswander, and Russell Clum.

Back - Jennings Stambaugh, "Doc" Donaghy, Prin. H. T. O. Blue, Herbert Jamison, Asst. Coach Bradshaw, Laurel Anspach, Supt. William Stage, Reed Cook and Coach Ralph Mertz (inset).

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