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Once upon a time in Ada

Local ghost story
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, June 15, 2019

By Leland Crouse
lcrouse@centurylink.net
From Small Town Sampler, by Betty Miller
October 24, 1990
Sitting in a group of friends one of the ladies brought up a story about seeing a ghost at her downtown apartment. I had to hear the whole story and went to visit my friend.

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Once upon a time in Ada

Civil War era buildings in town
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, June 1, 2019

By Leland Crouse
lcrouse@centurylink.net
Small Town Sampler
Betty Miller
The year 1987 may go down in the Ada history books as the year of progress or it may go down as a year of destruction depending on how the future generations define our actions. Some decisions we had no control over. For example, the old Tobias house which stood next to Gardner Drugs on Main awaits destruction back of the post office because of a fire. Professor Axline’s house across from the ONU campus had to be destroyed perhaps so that progress which the automobile gives us could be accommodated.

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Once upon a time in Ada

October 1963 - Human Hair Found In 4-Foot Oak at John Atha Sawmill
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, May 25, 2019

By Leland Crouse
lcrouse@centurylink.net
John Atha’s loggers cut down an old white oak four feet in diameter on the James Motter farm northwest of Ada last Friday, and came up with a mystery- human hair stuffed into a hole that had been bored about seven inches into the tree.

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Once upon a time in Ada

Hardin County participated in a test blackout in 1943
Posted by LizGH on Saturday, May 11, 2019

By Leland Crouse
lcrouse@centurylink.net
April 8, 1943
Ada and Hardin County participated in a test blackout with 20 north central Ohio counties at 8:05 slow time.

Test No.1 will be given only to “key” personnel of the corps, such as members of the staff, and chiefs of service. This signal will not be heard by the public.

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

By Leland Crouse
lcrouse@centurylink.net
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.

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Once upon a time in Ada

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

By Leland Crouse
lcrouse@centurylink.net
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.

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