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46 long school years ago in Ada

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 8, 2018

Here's the Ada High School Future Homemakers of America (FHA) from the 1972-73 school year.

Names of the members are under the photo.

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Once upon a time in Ada

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse
[email protected]

October 1964

Ada Kroger grocery store was closed.

Leo Wright was the store manager. With the closing Ada was left with the Don Lehman Supermarket in the 100 block of North Main Street and the Claude Harris IGA Foodliner at the south limits of the village.

Doyle Paugh operates a neighborhood market at 411 South Main, and John Elwood Equity store at 225 North Main Street.

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A club at Ada High School

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, October 1, 2018

Here's the Ada High School Industrial Arts Club from 1972-73. Names of members are beneath the photo.

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Once upon a time in Ada

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse
[email protected]

1940 -  whenever a new project is undertaken on an old one renewed, it is the result of the keen interest and lively enthusiasm of a few individuals. A small group composed of such persons is responsible for the renewed interest in an Ada High Annual. It is with sincere appreciation and praise that we dedicate this issue of the “ADA WATCHDOG” to that small but industrious group. This was the return of the Ada high school yearbook after some years without one.

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Once upon a time in Ada

Posted by Monty Siekerman on Tuesday, September 18, 2018

Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse
[email protected]

July 1936 J.E. Sanderson, Ada blacksmith, put on a set of steel buggy rims for J.N. Runser. It was his first job of “setting” rims done here in more than ten years.

July 1936 the first electric fence in the Ada community was installed on the Leonard Ream farm.

July 1936 the Ada Ice Company was selling an average of ten ton of ice daily.

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How many miles is Ada from Marion?

Posted by Fred Steiner on Monday, September 17, 2018

What a great snapshot.

Although we don't know the exact location of this photo, it's in the Ada neighborhood.

And, now we know how far from Ada is Lima, Alger, Kenton and Marion. Before the invention of the GPS, road sign markers pointed the way. In this 1931 photo the sign post shows:
• Lima at 15 miles, or is it 16?
• Alger at 3 miles
• Kenton at 13 miles
• Marion at 40 miles

(From the collection of Leland Crouse)

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