Local writers and stories
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…
THE NFL By: Stan Jordan In my estimation, the NFL is fading away and really don’t need any help from the quarterbacks. What I am talking about is that quarterback who won’t stand for the National Anthem but he will kneel down. His name is Colin Kaepernick and played for the L.A. 49ers. As I…
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…
WORDS AND NAMES EXPLAINED By: Stan Jordan Auglaize: A Delaware Indian village situated on a branch of the Maumee River; meaning “at the lick” The French word “glaise” means loamy or clay. Charloe: named after Chief Charloe Peter. Hen Peck: Not really known why; located in Crane Township Knoxdale: After Henry Knox; Secretary of War…
MY TALK WITH DISTRICT TWO By: Stan Jordan Here at the West Bend News we get all types of Wild Life Magazines and one of the good ones is “Wild Ohio” from Columbus Division of Wild Life. It tells me we are in District Two, with the office in Findlay. So I called down to…
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.…
RETIREMENT By: Stan Jordan Let’s talk about this word retirement. It’s a time of importance in your life like when you lose your first tooth, get your driver’s license, your first kiss, your graduation, interview for your first job, your wedding…I could go on and on, but you have gone through this before. After you…
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…
IT WAS A LIVERY STABLE By: Stan Jordan A fellow asked me one time, what used to be where the fire house is now. I will tell you about what I know of that corner and area. From as far back as I can remember, back about 1928 or so, it was a big red…
