TALK ABOUT HISTORY
By: Stan Jordan
I am very lucky to get this old picture of the railroad square here in Antwerp. It was given to me by Walter Lang and I surely appreciate it. It is the only photo that I have seen that shows that little white building right in the middle, which later became the Ice Cream Depot. I will have more on that later.
I’m not sure who took this picture, but I don’t think it was Mr. Ehrhart because it doesn’t say so, and that is not his writing. Whoever it was though, was standing over on the west side of Cleveland Street in Charlie DeLong’s yard, looking southeast.
It was taken after 1931 because the water tower is there also. You can see the east elevator in the back ground.
Those automobiles ramble all the way from 1928 up till the late 1940’s. Everything here on the left side is gone now, the depot, the elevator and the first water tower.
Right across from the little white building would be H&H Dry Cleaners if this was after 1950. Right there in the center would be “Tiny’s Lunch” which after WWII became “Ray’s Restaurant”.
That large object on the right, I don’t remember that being there, on the elevator lot. Later on, L. Smith & Son had an unloading dock for their farm machinery, but don’t look like it and I don’t think it was in that area.
There on the right would be Frank Smith’s Drug Store and that half building on the right margin was George Redderson’s Meat Market.
This picture doesn’t go far enough to show the Chair Factory if it was there. That burned in 1950.
I’m not sure about much of this photo but the little white building later was made the Ice Cream Depot and that, too, is gone now.
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THE EMS BREAKFAST
By: Stan Jordan
We attended the EMS Breakfast on Saturday, June 1st and had a fine time. Oh yes, the food was excellent as usual, but we sat around and drank a lot of coffee and visited about all this rain and what an unusual spring, it is now past corn planting time and it is still too wet to get on the ground for beans. I don’t remember a spring like this.
The Rib Fest, sponsored by the A.C.D.C., was enjoyed by everyone but the nice sun shiny day, turned to a stormy night about 8:45 and lots of people went home.
A lot of people had gone to Akron when the girls high school softball team advanced into the final four and had won that game and were scheduled to play in the State Championship game on Saturday evening. That game was rained out and rescheduled for the next morning and the girls won the Ohio State Division 4 Championship.
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A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter. “What are you doing?” she asked. “Hunting flies,” he replied.
“Oh, kill any?” she said. “Yep, 3 males and 2 females,” came the answer. Intrigued, the wife asked, “How can you tell them apart?” Husband: “3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone.”
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Recently, a routine police patrol parked outside a bar in Mosheim, Tennessee. After last call the officer noticed a man leaving the bar so intoxicated that he could barely walk. The man stumbled around the parking lot for a few minutes, with the officer quietly observing. After what seemed an eternity in which he tried his keys on five different vehicles, the man managed to find his truck and trailer and fall into it. He sat there for a few minutes as a number of other patrons left the bar and drove off.
Finally, he started the engine, switched the wipers on and off – it was a fine dry summer night, flicked the blinkers on and off a couple of times, honked the horn and then switched on the lights. He moved the vehicle forward a few inches, reversed a little and then remained still for a few more minutes as some more of the patrons’ vehicles left. At last, when his was the only one left in the parking lot, he pulled out and drove slowly down the road. The police having waited patiently all this time, now started up his patrol car, put on the flashing lights, promptly pulled the man over and administered a breathalyzer test. To his amazement, the breathalyzer indicated no evidence that the man had consumed any alcohol at all! Dumbfounded, the officer said, “I’ll have to ask you to accompany me to the police station. This breathalyzer equipment must be broken.” “I seriously doubt it,” said the truly proud Hillbilly. “Tonight I’m the designated decoy.”
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A husband walks into the bedroom holding two aspirin and a glass of water. His wife asks, “What’s that for?”
“It’s for your headache.” “I don’t have a headache.” He smiles. “Gotcha!”
THE BLUE JAY
By: Stan Jordan
In my estimation the blue jay is a very pretty bird. He is native to the entire eastern United States and Southern Canada like a strip from Alberta down through Colorado into Mexico.
The blue jay has sort of two characteristics, when he is around his own nest area he is cautious and silent but away from his nest he is noisy, bold and will not let anyone else eat at the feeder, actually he is a bully.
During the breeding season the jay take a heavy toll on the eggs and young of other birds and some of them are good birds. The jay’s main food is vegetable matter also acorns and other nuts. It likes corn, insects, wood boring beetles, grass hopper eggs and caterpillar eggs and small insects.
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