Local writers and stories
By: Stan Jordan This is sort of a testimonial of a blue and red farm truck that works for Kenny Hahn and Nick Bragg. I am a 1982 Chevrolet farm truck and I would like to publish my history before I end up in the crusher. For years, I hauled grain for a nice fellow…
FRANK LAMB By: Stan Jordan As a young man he learned the barber trade and started a shop in a small building next to what is now the Oasis, but at that time was the forerunner of the Antwerp Exchange Bank. Later on he built or had built a lot of Antwerp business buildings like…
THE CITY HALL By: Stan Jordan This is the second city hall for Antwerp. The first one was down on the southeast corner of Stone and Erie Street. I don’t know when it was built. There was a lot of people who didn’t want to spend the $8000 for a new city hall, but after…
THE GENESIS HOUSE By: Stan Jordan The Genesis House is the first house north of Town Hall and it has a lot of history. I will tell you what I remember about it. It has been remodeled a number of times from when I first remember it. Back in 1930 and a little later, a…
By: Stan Jordan This is an old picture of the West Elevator in Antwerp, about 1952 or 53. You can see they were just starting to build those big silos. They were made of cement so they had to pour 24 hours a day, 3 shifts a day. A lot of farmers helped on the…
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…
