Once upon a time in Ada
Things you didn’t know about your own hometown
By Lee Crouse
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April 1916  - “Cherry Cheer,” a new soft drink was being bottled here by Marty & Jones. In April 1916 J.A. Jones and A.G. Marty appeared before the Ada council asking for improvement of the alley past Friedly’s livery barn, for approach of trucks to a proposed soft-drink bottling business. Friedly’s barn was located east of the First National Bank in East Buckeye Avenue.

April 1916 - the first annual open house by the Ohio Northern College of pharmacy was held.

August 1916 - the name of the “University Herald” was changed to “The Ada Herald.”