Posted by Monty Siekerman on Monday, July 24, 2017
Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
Ada in 1925
June 1925 Harry Mohr has the distinction of being the first to have an automatic water softener installed in his new home on North Gilbert .
August 1925 the Ku Klux Klan held a meeting on the Harding farm, south of Woodlawn cemetery.
September 1925 for the first time, Ada employed two policemen for day and night duty.
September 1925 a set of rules was formulated for Ohio Northern freshmen-among others, the wearing of orange and black “beanies”.
November 1925 Ira Marshall broke the world’s record by raising 1600.1 bushels of corn on a 10-acre plot.
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