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 teaching later though.
My second grade teacher was Miss Gladys Boylan. My third grade teacher was Miss Frances Jailor, she lived to be well in her 90’s, but never married. My fourth grade teacher was Neola Gordon, more on her later. My fifth grade teacher was Miss Johanson, that was her first year (1935). She taught and retired from here. My sixth grade teacher was Miss Grace Schmunk later she married Llyod Skinner.
My seventh grade teacher was Mrs. Neola Gordon again. Now I heard she taught some subjects over in high school, but I never had her there. My eighth grade teacher was a fine fellow named Walter Burnett.
In high school, I had a number of teachers and coaches, I will try to name them all. Mr. Bell, Mr. Carter, Mr. Bakle, Mr. Jump, Miss Rupp, Miss Carr, Mr. Samaha, Mr. Horney, Mr. Carr, George Clemmer, Wilbur Clemmer.
I graduated May 23rd, 1942.
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ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
By: Stan Jordan
At your first glance at the news, it is all over the people in the White House in Washington D.C. that they are all pervaricators of the worst kind. They are elected on the promise of doing things for the folks back in their district, but that is not the case now. The all high political party is all the people we elected think about.
One of the odd ball things done in Washington, was lowering the taxes when we needed all of them. The only people helped in that tax fiasco was the rich billionaires, not the common every day overalls people. We had to raise the national debt in that same week because we needed all the tax money we could get. He didn’t ask anybody, hardly any discussion, just got it done!
The president has fired or gotten rid of 12 or 15 department heads because they wouldn’t conform or agree to his ways of thinking. Lady Liberty is next.
Well, like I said before, back in 1932, in a beer hall in Munich, Germany, Hitler had 12 of his generals and department heads murdered, because they didn’t walk the chalk.
The other day he started a rhubarb about the tariffs with out any discussion. The Chinese and the other people are not going to accept their raise in the tariffs without raising some of their own.
I can’t see any gain in all their distrust and bad feelings. The American buyer will just have to pay more for what he buys. I can’t see any gain here for our economy in the long run.
I see where 4,000 troops are being sent down to the border at the Rio Grande! That will be about two soldiers every mile. They can’t arrest any body, what are they there for? To help the Mexicans over the fence?
These are precarious times for our beautiful country.
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PLEASE READ THIS
By: Stan Jordan
Up on CR 424 about ½ mile west of the old Wabash Depot, there was a water tower for water for the locomotives. Well, that tower was torn down about 60 years ago, but right there was also a storage area for some huge boulders that are still there. Now, said boulders are on the railroad property and as long as I can remember they have been sort of stored there. Now, I’m sure they could be used in construction because they are so big and heavy. Now, evidently the railroad people stored them there sometime after 1855 and I don’t think they have ever been moved. I do remember back about 1978 the railroad people dropped off a couple hundred railroad ties in that area, but on their land, and since that time those ties have been installed under the tracks.
That whole storage area has grown up with saplings, trees and debris. Now, that is over in Carryall Township and on the railroad property, but to me that area and the stuff there is part of Antwerp History. I would like to see that cleaned up and be a neat, clean place of history. It is just a little past the corporation sign on the railroad side of CR 424.
Please drive up there and look this area over and see what you think?
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OUR DNR
By: Stan Jordan
A few weeks ago, I call our District No. 2 of the DNR of the State of Ohio, which is located in Findlay and I don’t know what I wanted to hear, but I don’t like what I did hear – nothing?
I don’t know what they do to earn their wages, but he had no idea of where Paulding County is or the city of Defiance.
I am mighty proud of our wildlife here in the tri-state area. He didn’t say a word about our beavers, otters, badgers and he doubted that we have cougars, but I have been told of sightings by some good responsible people.
I think we do have a cougar or two and I imagine they come down from Michigan looking for food and I think there is plenty here, but again, there is not as much cattle and farm animals to worry about like there used to be.
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