Woodpeckers By: Stan Jordan I feel real good about writing this column on the woodpecker because nearly everyone holds them all in high esteem. Just like the cardinals and doves. I, myself, like to hear them peck for their food and to watch them get their food. They are structure workers and they survive on…
By: Stan Jordan Please read all the information about the first house in Paulding County. Although it wasn’t stated in the article, this picture was in the book with the Robert Murphy Inn so we ran it in the paper along with it. We did not mean for anyone to mistake it for the Robert…
Wahoo Is No Longer A Chief By: Stan Jordan I get asked once in a while about the Cleveland Indians and also the Reds. Well the Indians have a good ball club, the pitching is good I would say above average, but now and then the bull pen will let the pitchers down. I’ve hollered…
SOCCER and i By: Stan Jordan I know nothing about the game of soccer and I am sure it’s going to be big here in the United States so I had Crystal punch me up Wikipedia and this and another column will help in understanding the game better. I’m sure down the road it is…
SOME OF THE NAMES By: Stan Jordan Baldwin: Tim Baldwin plotted the town in Benton Township in May of 1890 on the Findlay and Fort Wayne Railroad. Benton Township named for Senator Thomas Benson of Missouri. Blue Creek: The township is named after the creek. Brown Township, also Fort Brown for Col. Brown of fame…
YES, YOUR HUSBAND NEEDS A PICK UP Yes, your husband needs a pick up truck, for a number of reasons, not just because Sam Jackson got one, but because he needs one. He needs one of the bigger variety like an 8ft X 4ft bed in case he has to haul some plywood or…
SOME MORE ON THE SNOWY OWLS By: Stan Jordan Here of late, nearly every day we get some news on the local snowy owls. I heard again from Deb over in the Gar Creek area and along the State Line Road. They have me convinced there is a nest there, thank you for the picture…
A New Map of Paulding County By: Stan Jordan One of my readers brought me in a new and up-to-date map of Paulding County and I am very glad to get it. He drew my attention to the fact I was making a mistake in some of my history, I will tell you about it.…
FORT WAYNE BASEBALL By: Stan Jordan I’ve heard many times that the first night baseball game was played in Fort Wayne. Well, like all other history, there are 6 or 8 other cities that use the same claim to fame. Now that wasn’t the big league like we know of. They were minor…
I REMEMBER MY SCHOOL TEACHERS By: Stan Jordan I started in the first grade in the fall of 1930. Miss Lucille Carr was the teacher and that was her first year of teaching. She taught many years and then married Harold Stiver then resigned for a few years to raise her family. She returned to…
THE SNOWY OWL By: Stan Jordan Thank goodness everyday someone tells me about sighting a big snowy owl. A fellow from up around Edon-Edgerton area has seen a big male owl and Ann Snider reported that she saw one on a telephone pole on SR 49 about a mile north of US 30. The other…
I WONDER WHAT IT WAS LIKE? By: Stan Jordan As I sit here in my famous corner with a window that looks out over Antwerp’s busy thoroughfare and right outside is River Street; that used to be the main trail for General Anthony Wayne’s men from Toledo to Fort Wayne. I wonder what it was…
PPEC 81st ANNUAL MEETING By: Stan Jordan On March 17th, I was invited to attend the 2017 annual report meeting of Paulding Putnam Electric Co-operative, Inc and from now on in this column it will be called PPEC. My boss here at the West Bend News, Bryce Steiner, was my driver and helper all day.…
