Christmas, I love you!
By: Stan Jordan
Christmas comes by chance at the end of the year, well now I don’t know about that. I never did know about those guys who made up the first calendar. I guess it was a bunch of fellows clothed in their pajamas or a plain bed sheet and they flipped a ruppie to see what was next and where it was. A lot of this stuff came from the God’s and they wasn’t all Greeks.
Like the baby Jesus, they know he was born in a stall and laid in a manger because there was no room at the inn and all that took place in Bethlehem, but they don’t when it was for sure.
But it does come at the end of the year and I think that is a good place for it, because you can look back over those 12 months and see how things went for you.
Things went good for me, I never got sick or the flu. My arthritis and rheumatism and all the other ailments just hung on in a lower percentage. That means I felt pretty good all year, just like I was 94 years old. I attended all the actions that took place here in the Antwerp area. I don’t travel much because I always need a driver, but I surely like to go on a ride through the tri-state area.
We are so blessed, our area is full of history, wild life and birds, good employment, schools and churches, and the best is the people. Friendly, courteous, kind and will stop and talk. They are so giving, they will try to help whoever needs it.
I really enjoy myself here in this beautiful and bountiful area. I think I will stay a while.
See ya!
Cause I Said So
By: Stan Jordan
That is the most used phrase in a mother’s world. These four words become burned into a child’s brain. You don’t need to ask again, same answer “Cause I said so.”
A child can hardly walk and talk and he hears that phrase. That is almost child abuse, “because I said so.”
Now I never saw that phrase in the Bible, but I bet Mary said it, “Cause I said so.” I’ll bet if you looked on the walls of the pyramids you would see that phrase, “cause I said so.”
When the little Arab boy asked if he could use the family camel, the mother said, “no” after he repeated his question a couple of times and asked, “Why” she replied, “Cause I said so.”
Then he asked, “Can I go down to the Oasis for a while?” She said, “no” he knew not to ask again, he already knew the answer.
See ya!
Steve and I Go For A Ride
By: Stan Jordan
Yesterday was December 6th and my driver was Steve Knapp. We went east on 424, just looking at the country side. We could see there was a lot of action around the old Weatherhead factory.
We went on down east, there wasn’t any traffic so we looked the fields over pretty good. There are a couple of corn fields yet to combine.
On the far side of Dead Mans Curve, up on a telephone pole, we saw a huge owl or hawk. We didn’t get a good look, but it must have been a great horned owl. We could see it was big, but he flew away then, our slowing up scared him.
We drove on down to what used to be the Lone Tower. I was telling Steve about there was a lot of history to that area.
Just a quarter of a mile away is what once was New Rochester. That was high ground and for a few years, that was the center for all that went on in the 1820’s & 30’s at one time it was the acting Paulding County seat.
I was telling Steve about the small town of Cecil, it also played a part in the early history of that area. Then years ago they would hold the Cecil Homecoming each year. That was a huge affair each year, hundreds came to the all day affair. But the old timers are all gone now, and the Cecil Homecoming isn’t held anymore.
We went on over to CR 230 and 192 looking for any of our wild friends and we didn’t see any. Now there, a little past CR 89 we saw where many many deer had been stamping around in a farmer’s winter wheat field in the mud.
Then across the river at the south end of Road 89 is that eagle nest, that is an old nest. We looked all up and down that area of the river and we couldn’t see any new nests.
Do you know of any new eagles nest?
See ya!
Traffic at the Post Office
By: Stan Jordan
A person came into the office the other day and wants me to write a column about the correct flow of traffic at the post office entrance.
That is a new post office, maybe not to you, but to us old timers it is, having been built in about 1968. The flow of traffic there has been about the same these 50 years. My goodness, I didn’t think it was that long ago that I helped move the post office.
Well anyhow, you are supposed to enter from Main Street and after you do your business you go out going west onto Cleveland Street. You are not to back out and go back on Main Street whence you came.
There are signs there for you to follow.
See ya!
The Ohio State Buckeyes
By: Stan Jordan
I am all goofed up about the Buckeyes and I assume you are too. This 2018 season has a lot of ground for discussion.
The boys started out like a good team, both sides looked good for the first couple of games. Then Nick Bosa got hurt and couldn’t play. There was some games where the opponents would run wild, right where Nick would have been. His leaving the team for the NFL was a big blow. There was a couple of games where the team looked bad. That game with Purdue was a fiasco! Then the boys started tp play like themselves of old.
Those two Michigan games, they played very good ball and they beat Northwestern in the play offs and now they will represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl on January 1st, 2019. Then Coach Urban Meyer told us that, due to a head condition, that game would be his last as the coach of the Ohio State Buckeyes football team. I’m very sad to hear that, but I’m sure he knows best. Since he has been coach at Ohio State, he has set all kinds of records.
He was born in Toledo in 1964. He grew up around Ashtabula, Ohio. He played football at Cincinnati. He coached at a number of places. His record at Ohio State is 82 victories and 9 loses. The total for head coaching positions was 186-32.
He has two daughters and one son and they live in Dublin, Ohio. Yes, he will be missed. Ryan Day, one of the assistants, will be the new Ohio State coach.
See ya!
The Old Town Hall
By: Stan Jordan
You might not give a hoot about this story, but I’m going to write it anyhow.
Back in the 1890’s and before the town hall or what ever it was named, was situated down on the southeast corner of Erie Street and Stone Street.
It was back in 1873 that the council authorized some money for the city to have a band. Now there was a rider on that order, that the band could use the town hall for practice, but they had to furnish their own fuel to heat the building with and their own kerosene for the lanterns or lights.
That was a one story building and it served well as a town hall. In 1906 there was an issue on the ballot of $8,000 to build a new town hall, this was third time and the issue was passed. The old town hall was torn down and the debris disposed of. That area was cleaned up and when the city got a water works installed, the first water tower was erected on that spot around 1930 or 31.
The water works should be regarded by every citizen of Antwerp, as one of the biggest projects ever done to keep us up with progress and the times.
See ya!
By: Stan Jordan
This catastrophe was told to me at lunch time at the Knights of the Long Table by Kenny Hahn who will not back up the percentage of truth to it.
A year ago on New Year’s Day this young fellow went to the Rose Bowl game at Pasadena, California. He enjoyed the game so much he just bought he and his pal two tickets for next year’s Rose Bowl game, which would be January 1, 2019 at $2500.00 each but they are good seats on the 50 yard line.
Now we jump ahead till the first of December, 2018. Things have changed a lot. He has a beautiful girlfriend and he forgot and agreed to a wedding on January 1st, 2019. Now, his favorite team, Ohio State Buckeyes, are playing Washington in the Rose Bowl that very same day and he has tickets for that game at the same time.
He has placed an ad in the local newspaper for a young man about 180 lbs and about 23 years old to come to the Methodist Church around 1:00 p.m. on January 1st, 2019 and take his place. She is a pretty girl, about 110 lbs, 5’ 7” and will be the only girl in a white dress. Please call 678-6541, he is in dire need of a stand–in.
