Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse

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                                                        Ada in 1925

June 1925 Harry Mohr has the distinction of being the first to have an automatic water softener installed in his new home on North Gilbert .

August 1925 the Ku Klux Klan held a meeting on the Harding farm, south of Woodlawn cemetery.

September 1925 for the first time, Ada employed two policemen for day and night duty.

September 1925 a set of rules was formulated for Ohio Northern freshmen-among others, the wearing of orange and black “beanies”.

November 1925 Ira Marshall broke the world’s record by raising 1600.1 bushels of corn on a 10-acre plot.