Stories by Stan
By: Stan Jordan While sitting here at my desk in March 2017, my mind and body is down by the park, in the river and the date is around the summer of 1934 or so. Like every other summer day, we three boys have a can full of worms or night crawlers and we are…
By: Stan Jordan On Tuesday night, February 28th, this whole area had rain and a violent wind storm, some folks said a little hail also. On Wednesday morning I went down to the Maumee River to check on the eagles’ nest and it looked like it was alright. That nest was blown away back in…
By: Stan Jordan On the 30th day of December 1863 a number of Antwerp citizens took a petition to the Paulding County Commissioners for Antwerp to become an incorporated village. One of the Paulding County Commissioners at that time was Sam Forder. There were two Sam Forders in the history of Crane Township. They were…
Maybe This Will Work By: Stan Jordan I know Valentine’s Day is here and gone, but if you didn’t shower your wife with the usual flowers and chocolates, how about this treat? Take her for a ride out in the country side. Now don’t give me this “Aw Pshaw” stuff, just read the rest of…
Some of Antwerp’s old history By: Stan Jordan On November 8th 1875, legislation was started for a new jail. Said jail was to be made of brick and mortar supplanting the old wooden structure. I have looked my records over and over and I have never found any other notes or talk or anything about…
By: Stan Jordan Now before you plant a bomb in my 1999 Dodge pickup, please read all of this chatter. The Ohio Buckeye football team last August and was rated second, third and fourth in the nation to start the season. I think a lot of that came from ESPN and the commission to select…
OLD PHRASES AND SAYINGS By: Stan Jordan Hi old timer! Our family was exiting a fine restaurant in Fort Wayne a few weeks ago when the following incident took place: We a met a man who looked to be around 80 years old with his family, entering the restaurant. I suppose it was his daughter…
By: Stan Jordan Gary and Linda Mabis came in the other day and we discussed “The Prairie” out at the Antwerp High School. Linda got the idea of a place that would be safe for our native birds, bees and bugs. She had attended a seminar in Dayton called “The Midwest Nature Plan” and it…
The local eagles By: Stan Jordan Yes, our local eagle nest, just east of town, was destroyed by a violent wind storm on the night of November 28th. I don’t have anything to report on that, for sure, but this is what my readers have told me. A few days ago a man, about four…
C.A. Bissell 1857 – 1943 By: Stan Jordan I hope you enjoy the following story about Charlie Bissell, he was one of Antwerp’s last pioneers. I knew him and respected him and so did everyone else. This story is all true from my own experience and the rest is from Mr. Ehrhart’s book “A Century…
Looking back on 2016 By: Stan Jordan As I sit here at my desk and look out across Main Street here in Antwerp, with all of the snow laying around and the mercury plunging down to zero, this is the first bitterly cold snap of the winter, and I am already tired of winter. We…
By: Stan Jordan The other day a lady asked me what the word “Pocock” meant on the building on the west side of Main Street in the second block. The Pocock brothers, John and Emmett, had a grocery store on the corner where the Hometown Pantry is now located. That was in 1887 and the…
Our Eagles Nest Is Gone By: Stan Jordan On Monday night, November 28th, there was quite a wind storm and it blew our local eagle nest to pieces. In fact, the next morning, what remains of the nest is hardly any bigger than a squirrels nest. I talked to Jim Pendergrast about this situation, as…
