Posted by Monty Siekerman on Monday, May 22, 2017
Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
Ada News in 1903:
June 24, 1903: Monday the four new cannons for the artillery arm of O.N.U. military service were hauled to the campus.
July 28, 1903: the name Ohio Normal University was changed to Ohio Northern University.
July 1903: The Ada council adopted a system of numbering houses proposed by B.A. Hawes. Mr. Hawes was selling house number plates for 50 and 75 cents.
October 1903: the Ada high school selected purple and pink for its colors. The motto was “Labor Opens Honor’s Gates.”
November 1903: the St. Paul Reformed church dedicated its new house of worship on November 15.
»
