You are here

Home » News

Historical Ada

109 Ada HS sports seasons ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, May 6, 2019

No too many familiar last names in this Ada High School photo. Was it a football team, or another sport? There's one captain listed: Foss, number 11. (Photo from Leland Crouse)

Post script: Jon Umphress tells the Icon that number 11 Foss was his grandfather, Harold "Shorty" Foss. He played end of this football team and later worked at Cole Motors.

»

Once upon a time in Ada

Why has Ada never had a woman mayor?
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, May 4, 2019

By Leland Crouse
[email protected]
Excerpt from Small Town Sampler
Betty Miller
1 November, 1989 The Ada Herald
November is a month of politics. As the election returns determine the big city mayors and council winners, often they are women. Small towns in our area have women mayors and women on their town councils. Why has Ada never had a woman mayor? Why is Betty Elzay the first and only woman ever elected to council in our 136 year-history? I decided to go back in our town history and see if I could find some answers.

»

A flour mill on West Montford?

Yes, built in 1874; destroyed by fire in 1915
Posted by Fred Steiner on Sunday, April 28, 2019

This article is one of several pieces on the village’s history and written by members of The Ada Historical Society.

By Paul Logsdon
Images below are from the ONU Archives or courtesy of the online newspapers from the Ada Public Library.

Ada City Mills, 1874 - 1915
The residents of West Montford Ave. might be surprised to know that one of Ada’s early major businesses was located on their street. 

The Ada City Mills (flour), built in 1874 by Joseph Ream & Son, was located on the corner of West Montford and Heistand St.

»

Once upon a time in Ada

Gabriel Reeder Hubbell
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, April 27, 2019

By Leland Crouse
[email protected]
Excerpt from the Small Town Sampler by Betty Miller
The Ada Herald 24 January, 1990
Gabriel Reeder Hubbell - 14 March, 1825 to 15 May, 1909
If you like adventure stories with Indian encounters and narrow escapes on the frontier, you don’t have to search for old “shoot-em-up” movies or books about the West of long ago. You can find a better story in our local history, and all of it really happened.

»

St. Mark Lutheran youth choir 1989

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, April 22, 2019

Here's members of the St. Mark Lutheran youth choir in 1989.

Front from left, Ellen Peterson, Hilary Riggs, Amanda Plaugher, Susanna Lehman, Jessica Smith and Megan Gossman.

Center row from left, Regina Koons, Liza McVicker, Matt Gossman, Viola Warner, Sam Peterson.

Back from left, Julia Shull, director, Adam Vaubel, Becky Gossman, Jacob Lehman, Kara McVicker, Gail Epley, Isaac Seagrave. Absent Rebecca Kimmell.

(From the collection of Leland Crouse)

»

Once upon a time in Ada

Seven generations of Shanks in rural Ada
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, April 20, 2019

By Leland Crouse
[email protected]
Borrowed from Small Town Sampler
Betty Miller, August 30, 1989
Thomas Shanks
In 157 years most of the early farms in Liberty Township have changed owners. A few, however, have been passed down through the generations, and descendants of some of the early settlers still grow crops on the land their ancestors cleared. One of these farms is owned by Bob and Anna Mary Shanks on County Road 65. At some time in their lives, seven generations of the Shanks family have called this home.

»

Pages