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These guys fought Ada fires in the 1920s

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, February 11, 2019

Ada Fire Department about 1923-1925 on the chemical truck -

Front row - L to R- Mayor Frank Kinsman who was Ada mayor in 1926-27, again in 1930 and again in 1932, Jim Wallick; Art Robinolte; Red Lantz; Chet Houser; Ed Firestone; John White was fire chief in 1926.

Back row-L to R- Charley High (on drivers seat with Slip the dog; Roy Dodge; Harry Bodell; Jim Candler; Claude Bodell was fire chief in 1923, standing on the sidewalk.

(Photo from Leland Crouse collection)

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56 yearbooks ago

Posted by Fred Steiner on Wednesday, February 6, 2019

Here are the senior editors of the 1962-63 Ada High School yearbook. They include John Spitzer, Phyllis Hodges, Linda Fulks, Kathy James, Twal Heifner, Joan Moser and Charles Collett.

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Lots of Tressels in the 1905 school photo

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 28, 2019

Here is a photograph of students in the Red county school, rural Ada, in 1905. It's a reprint from a newspaper clipping from the collection of Leland Crouse.

Your find several family Ada family names including at least six Tressels.

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Remember Bessie Bingo?

The first one was at the 1988 F&M Picnic
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, January 26, 2019

By Lee Crouse
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Here’s a story about the 1988 Farmers and Merchant’s Picnic:

August 1988 a new event was added to the Farmers and Merchants picnic and a large, impatient crowd initially waited on the game called Bessie Bingo. 

As the hour approached for the release of Bessie, names were drawn from a bucket and spaces were assigned. Curious onlookers gathered as anxious ticket buyers located the empty space and wished for something in it. 

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Familiar last names on this Sugar Grove baseball team

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 21, 2019

Sugar Grove Methodist Church baseball team 1917 –

•Back row, Lem Runser, Carl Barnes, Dayle Spar, Neil Paterson, Bryan Mull and Howard Barnes.

• Front row, Arden Searson, Roy VanAtta, ___Nye, Roy Aikenbery, Robert Patterson, Dale Carey, Ernest VanAtta and John Wells.

(Collection of Leland Crouse)

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Once upon a time in Ada

In 1988 boy scouts and cubs covered 17+ miles picking up litter
Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, January 14, 2019

By Lee Crouse
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June 1988 - The Ada Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts covered more than 17 miles of Liberty Township roads picking up litter.

They collected 55 bags during the 91 man-hours of work, reported Robert Krofft.

Scouts involved in the activity were Brian Beckley, Brian Wilkerson, Mike Ring, Daryl Neff, David Benson, Donald Roby, Tom Lehman, Chad Hazelton, Travis Hazelton, Isaac Seagrave, Adam Vauvel, David Vaubel, Jacob Lehman, Daniel Rider, Eric Preston and Robby Logsdon.

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