There are hundreds of books at the Ada Public Library. Here's a glance at a selection of new books. Why not make one of your new year resolutions to make a weekly trip to the Ada Public Library. While there check out the stacks.
Here’s a year-end quiz to see just how much you know about Ada.
All of the questions in this quiz are based upon stories posted on the Ada Icon in 2015, and there are 14 possible points.
Scoring
Answer 4 or less: Do you really live here?
Answer 5 or 6: Hey, you are a serious Icon reader
Answer 7 or 8: Wow! You are in the know, congrats
Answer 9: You can create next year’s year-end quiz – probably now
Answer 10 or more: You either looked at the answers, or you are an Ada native
On Oct. 3, 1964 the 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.
Employees at the time of the closing were Don Fisher, assistant in the grocery department; Harold Carothers, produce department; John Spitzer, part-time utility man.
Jeff Kantner of Family True Value Hardware, 109 N. Main St., Bluffton, announces the store's January bargains of the month.
These include:
• Your choice, either 20-pound black oil sunflower bird seed,
or 40-pound wild bird food, $9.99
• 2-gallon, 6-ounce, palastic gas can, $7.99
• Your choice, either 16-pack AA or AAA alkaline batteries,
or 4-pack 9 volt alkaline batteries and 8-pack C or D alkaline batteries, $10.99
• Your choice, either 2-pack, 7.5 watts, or 13 watts LED bulbs, $5.99
Family True Value Hardware
Phone: 419-358-2866
Bluffton
