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Once upon a time in Ada: The first parcel post package sent from Ada was in 1913

Lee Crouse shares some things you didn't know about your hometown
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 24, 2016

Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
[email protected]

Jan. 1,1913, the first parcel post package sent from Ada was a roll of fancy assorted papers sold by the Record to a young man who sent them to Pennsylvania. For the first week of the new parcels post the local business in Ada post office was as follows: parcels mailed out, 129: parcels received, 195: parcels for local delivery, 3.

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Chevy and Olds dealer in Ada? You bet!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 24, 2016

There was a time when you could buy a new Chevolet or Oldsmobile in Ada. Here's the dealership photo, known as Liberty Chevrolet. This photo is from the 1953 Ada centennial book.

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1912 in Ada - Business men organized to make plans for the first F&M Picnic

Once upon a time in Ada - things you didn't know about your hometown
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 17, 2016

Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
[email protected]

March 3, 1912 the Business Men’s Club was organized. W.C. Ewing was the first president. In 1914 this organization formulated plans for the first Farmers & Merchants Picnic.

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Ada women's Cosmopolitan Club - 1953

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 17, 2016

The year is 1953. Here is the Ada women's Cosmopolitan Club. The club was organized in 1935 and state federated in 1945.

You certainly recognize some famiiar Ada names here including Marshall, Stambaugh, Hindall, Bowden, Cole, Neiswander and Stober, for example.

And, we see Mary Bowden in the second row. Who else do you recognize in this group of Ada women?

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Once upon a time in Ada: 1911 was a year of interesting events

Billiy Sunday spoke at ONU, first electric clock in Ada, Boy Scout organize, motor installed on Presbyterian Church pipe organ
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 10, 2016

Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
[email protected]

 March 1911 - Prof. Frank B. Willis of Ohio Northern University was the newly elected Congressman from the Eighth Ohio district, is to be retained on the faculty and will teach economics and law.

March 1911 - high school boys organized an athletic association “to promote better and purer athletics.” First officers were Russell Meyer, president; Eugene Ewing, vice president; Claud Neiswander, secretary; and Von Spellman, treasurer.

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Here's Ada's eighth grade choir from...39 school years ago!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 10, 2016

Can you find yourself here? It's the Ada eight grade choir during the 1977-78 school year.

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