Stories by Stan
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…
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.…
THE FORT IN FORT WAYNE By: Stan Jordan The area around Ft. Wayne was a trading post back in 1680 and before that it was the capital of the Miami Nation, known by the name of Kekionga. The first foreigners were the French fur traders. Actually, this place was the portage area of about eight…
ROLE MODEL By: Stan Jordan Over the years, I’ve been asked a number of times about who influenced my life. Lots of people have, some more than others. First, I came from a fine Christian family of five children and we all knew right from wrong, as we heard it every day. Church and Sunday…
I MIGHT BE WRONG By: Stan Jordan This Nikolas Cruz killing seventeen people and wounding a lot more at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida is an open and shut case that I talked about in my column last week. In the old west, with a case that solid, the killer would be…
THE TRI-STATE AREA By: Stan Jordan If you have been reading my columns, you have noticed that I refer to this area as the Tri-State area. All the way south of the Michigan-Ohio line, through Williams, Defiance, Paulding, Van Wert and Mercer. Mercer readers will pick up the West Bend News in that huge Walmart…
WINTER IS ONE MONTH OLD By: Stan Jordan I hate winter, I have written that before and I haven’t changed my mind. I hate having to wear that heavy coat. I guess my arms and shoulders are weaker. I hate cold weather. I have no complaints about the conditions of the highways. Those boys running…
