Local writers and stories
A NEW COLUMN By: Stan Jordan Cindy Bowers gave us many good pictures of down town Antwerp and said we could use them in any way. Well, I am going to start a new column and show Antwerp’s older businesses and buildings each week till I run out of pictures. I will tell what I…
By: Patrick Troyer, Paulding SWCD With the occurrence of less fence rows and wooded areas along with tillage, farms across Ohio are losing more and more soil each year due to erosion. As many of us might know, it takes over 500 years to build just one inch of topsoil through the process of weathering.…
Jack Daniels Fishing Story I went fishing this morning, but after a short time I ran out of worms. Then I saw a cottonmouth with a frog in his mouth. Frogs are good bass bait. Knowing the snake couldn’t bite me with the frog in its mouth, I grabbed right behind the head, took the…
You and I and the tri-state area By: Stan Jordan You have heard me brag about living here in the tri-state area many times, I hope you can handle one more episode. Just this morning (January 4th) on the TV there are bad rain storms in the northwest, floods and acres of mud and muck,…
Paulding County Veterans WWII By: Stan Jordan I received the obituary for Russell Long of Paulding. He was 97 years old and was a veteran of the United States Air Force, being a chief mechanic on B-29’s, B-17’s and B-24’s. He was a member of the 297 American Legion Post and a life member of…
DEER PICTURE In the above picture, Alvin Copsey is petting a fawn right in his back yard. This picture was taken out at Alvin’s place on CR 230. He told me this little female just roamed around in his yard and didn’t seem to be afraid at all. He said the little deer was around…
The .22 calibre rifle By: Stan Jordan In my thinking, the .22 is America’s gun. Most boys use and own a .22 as his first gun and I’m in favor of that. I am also in favor of our young girls to learn and use this fine gun. To me, gun safety and care and…
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…
By: Stan Jordan There was a person that called our office and said it wasn’t right that I didn’t care if a person died from an overdose of drugs. YOURS AND MY RIGHTS I had said, “Let them die” and it is my right to think that and say it, it is surely that person’s…
THE ROMAN AQUEDUCT By: Stan Jordan All my life I have been in awe and wonder about those old Roman aqueducts we see in our history books and now I read that the Turks used the aqueducts to move their water long before the Romans. The following is some facts and history of them from…
GRIPE # 1, 2 and 3 By: Stan Jordan I started in the Antwerp Post Office as a window clerk July 1st, 1946 @ $1.04 per hour. Then in 1948, I worked in the Railway Mail Service, and then I started on Route One in January of 1949. I did that for 34 years, but…
PASSING A SCHOOL BUS By: Stan Jordan A few weeks ago a lady in a pick up truck passed a school bus that was picking up students. She killed 3 children from one family and badly wounded a boy from the neighbor’s house. This was over in Rochester, IN., but it could happen here. There…
WHAT I KNOW ABOUT 424 By: Stan Jordan I sit here at my desk in the West Bend News and look out my famous window over onto 424, that used to be federal highway US 24 from Detroit to somewhere in Colorado. US 24 had been dual lane and moved to the south side of…
