Once upon a time in Ada

Things you didn’t know about your own hometown

By Lee Crouse
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August 18, 1939 the American Legion Post will be erecting in Woodlawn Cemetery an eight foot monument to soldiers, sailors and nurses of all U.S. wars.

November 20, 1939 Doling’s Bakery, one of Ada’s oldest business houses, closed its doors Monday after 50 years by members of the same family.

November 1939 the second “Adamobile” was completed at the Luft & Gardner garage and delivered to Forest Hofer, Defiance polio victim.