Stan’s Articles

TINY’S & YAGER’S

By: Stan Jordan

Tiny’s – This is on the corner of Stone and South Main Street and it is as much of Antwerp’s history as I can imagine. On the left is Tiny DeLong’s  Lunch. At sometime, every Antwerp citizen has been in that lunch room.

When Tiny came home from WWI he bought that building in 1918 and it was a friendly place to go. After WWII he sold it to Ray Putman and named it Ray’s, but along about 1950 it was sold to Harold Secrest, but the name stayed Ray’s. After Harold Secrest’s death, his wife operated the restaurant, but later she sold it and it had a couple of owners, but let me say again, Tiny’s Restaurant was a part of Antwerp’s history in the 1920’s up to 1950 and then Ray’s for many more years. 

Alverde Johnson told me that building was built for his mother in 1900 named after a restaurant in New York.

Yager’s Lunch – This business had its start with the completion of the brisk business block of 1903. It was opened by Martha McCann and she sold it to Matt Wallace and he ran it until his death. Then Joe and Hattie Yager ran it for many years until after WWII.

In the 1950’s that building became a doctor’s office, Dr. Lynch, and he was there for a few years and then he moved to New York.

It has seen a number of businesses over the years. For a few years the VFW held their meetings on the second floor, then they built their own big building.

That is the right half of this photo, those two windows and a door in the white paint. That building between the white wall and the white “S” in the brick, in the 1930’s and 40’s was a bakery by Harry Wolf. It has been remodeled a number of times.

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YOU CLIPBOARD USERS

By: Stan Jordan

A few weeks ago I wrote a column on my use and knowledge of a clipboard. Well, I didn’t mean to but I guess I stepped on some peoples’ toes.

I talked about how I used a clipboard about once a year and put it on the shelf with all the year’s notes and papers till the next year’s celebration. Well. I found out in a hurry that some people use one a lot or even haul it around all day. For instance, my boss, Bryce Steiner, covers all the sports games of Woodlan, Wayne Trace, Antwerp and Paulding. He carries his camera equipment and his clipboard and writes down the name and number of the students and covers all the events.

I know there are some warehouse clerks and checkers who rely on a clipboard all day and would be lost without it.

My hat is off to you folks and I get nine strokes with a wet noodle.

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WWII VETS

By: Stan Jordan

The following is an updated list of the boys who left from Paulding County to serve in WWII and are still living. If you know of someone and their name is not on the list, please let me know. All of these boys are well over 90 years of age.

Air Force: Russell Long

Army: John P. Lamond, John Larson, Robert Baumle, Donald Beamer, George Forrest, Fred Grindstaff, Robert Johnson (Antwerp), Robert Johnson (Latty), Stan Jordan, Orval Mullen

Navy: Alfred Daeger, Keaton Endsly, Robert Franklin, Gerald Grindstaff, Richard Harris, Gene Scarbough, Glen Klingler

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HORSEPOWER HOLIDAY

By: Stan Jordan

Dan Bowers tells me that this year’s HorsePower Holiday is all ready, just waiting for the dates: May 3rd, 4th and 5th.

He said there are a number of new test and trails of your horsepower, any and all classes.

Just come and bring your many cylindered outfit and see how powerful your baby is.

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BUZZARD IS A BUZZARD

By: Stan Jordan

The turkey vulture/cathartes is also known in some North American regions as the turkey buzzard or just plain buzzards. It is the most wide spread of any of the new world vultures.

It is one of the three species of turkey buzzard that range from southern Canada to the top of South America.

The turkey buzzard is a scavenger and feeds almost always only on carrion from small mammals to large grazers, preferring those recently dead, and avoiding carcasses that have reached the point of putrefaction. It finds its food using its keen eyes and sense of smell, flying low enough to detect the gases produced by the beginnings of the process of decay in dead animals.

The informant told me that Hinckly, Ohio has a celebration each year for the return of the buzzard. He says Ohio doesn’t have any buzzards and their celebration is wrong.

They turkey buzzard received that name because its head looks like the head on a wild turkey.

Men figure there are 4 ½ million turkey buzzards in the Americas. They are protected by the migration laws of 1918.

The turkey buzzard was first described by Linnaeus as vultures aura in one of his reports back in 1758.

You can rightly call it with either of these names, what ever suits you.

To me it’s a buzzard and is a buzzard.

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OUR WILDLIFE

By: Stan Jordan

Here in this tri-state area we are really blessed with wildlife. A youngster growing up in this age and area is really lucky to be able to see and learn about each one, to be able to see them in the wild and also in school books. I know the teachers talk to them about what kind of animals or birds they see.

I heard from a man yesterday who lives over east of Grover Hill, there are a couple of families of eagles around there and then closer to Van Wert there is a pair.

Then the other day, lots of people saw those white swans that were migrating through. We heard from a number of folks about them, and I see the buzzards and the robins are back.

Bill Woodring brought me in a bird book that was published in 1920 by the National Geographic Society. I was glad to get it, that makes me 3, but it has some good writing also.

This is April 2nd and I was looking out of my kitchen window and I saw my pileated woodpecker. He was up and down that big walnut tree and went to the yard a couple of times. I got a good look at his color and his red crown. He is of the pileated species alright.

Van, our UPS man, showed me a picture he took this morning on his cell phone of a snowy owl. A huge male over by CR 51 and SR 111. He told me that they seem to be more acclimated now. I sure hope they are here to stay.

This is April 4th and my robins are real active in my yard. You see, I have time to sit and look out my kitchen window at that red maple tree. Over the years the robin always build the nest in that tree, but a few years back the wind blew the nest out and the robins needed to move to the maple tree in the back yard, but I’ve noticed this year, the male bird is spending a lot of time in the tree in the front yard, maybe they will move back.

Anyhow, if you can, take a few moments and watch our wildlife, it just makes you feel better. They are not dumb, they are just little people trying to get along. 

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YOU MIGHT NOT LIKE THIS

By: Stan Jordan

I crawled up on my soap box again. I’m hollering for justice, fairness, rights, common sense in the ending of that one sided deal in Wisconsin.

That guy named Patterson, killed the mother and father and kidnapped the 14 year old daughter, kept her for months as a prisoner, under the worst of conditions. Well, she escaped and the killer was caught and arrested. She identified this man as the killer and he admitted that he was the killer and told all about the horrible evening.

As a result of the trial, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. Why? Why? That’s my gripe here. My idea of justice, HANG HIM. Think of all the people that he caused trouble, unrest, heartaches and all that goes along with it. He has shown no remorse and he has shown that he is not fit to live in our society. Hang him yet today.  A girl can’t even stand on the curb and wait for a school bus. What kind of a nation is this? This freak of a man had picked this girl, and for weeks had planned on kidnapping her. That type of man will never change and he is not fit to be on the streets or anywhere.

You know my answer to this.

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TAXES TAXES

By: Stan Jordan

Well, the bad thing about spring is it is also tax time. Tax is only a three letter word, but it is a nasty one, just like a four letter word.

Ben Franklin told me one time, that the only thing for sure in this country is death and taxes and actually, you just look forward to both of them.

But what would we have if there wasn’t any taxes? Nothing…nothing, we figure our tax money goes for things in our favor. It goes way back to the cave men’s time. They didn’t have taxes, but they also didn’t have anything. So you want to live like they did thousands of years ago? I’m pretty sure you don’t. Now you know all of that, but just look at this country you live in. One of the foremost richest, beautiful and leading countries of the world. And if you want it like that, you have to pay for it.

So, I paid my taxes yesterday with a smile and a check.

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