Corner Post

By Corner Post You know you live in a small town when… You don’t need turn signals because everybody knows where you’re going. You dial a wrong number and talk for 15 minutes anyway. Pickup trucks outnumber cars three to one on Main Street. 3rd Street is on the edge of town. Your house is

By Thomas Kirschner Submitted to Corner Post Hello my friend It’s a beautiful day today I’m glad that you have joined us I hope you’re here to stay I’m a real live person I’m flesh and blood I’m a victim of fires I survived a flood I work all week On Sunday I pray If

By Submitted to Corner Post After decades of working, a couple looked forward to more time together and traveling to visit family members and points of interest they’d long dreamed about. Shortly before the man’s retirement, the couple learned that, not only was the income they expected to provide for them inadequate, as a result

By NewsPress Now Whether you live on a farm or in town, you are familiar with them. Corner posts often anchor a fence that delineates property lines — property lines that define where “home” is. No matter how far you may have traveled, when you reach there, you know that you are home. Corner posts

By NewsPress Now The Corner Post is a special publication provided by the St. Joseph News-Press. Editions of Corner Post will be published on the 2nd and 4th Thursdays of each month and can be viewed on-line at newspressnow.com/cornerpost. One printed issue per month will be delivered to mailboxes of rural-route postal customers in selected

By Thomas Kirschner Submitted poem The bond between a Father and Son On a 1 to 10 scale is an eleven The bond between a Father and Daughter Is a little slice of heaven Fathers are special guys Its from experience I speak When the going gets tough Its your Father you seek A Father

By Mary Bailey Sugar Creek Ladies Aid Society German potato salad 7-9 boiled potatoes with skin on 6 slices of bacon 1 onion, diced 1 package polish sausage or Polska Kielbasa cut into thin slices 1 can chicken or beef broth About 1/4 cup cider vinegar About 1/2 cup sugar About 2 tbs. flour Salt

By Corner Post “How would you like a job where, if you make a mistake, a big red light goes on and 18,000 people boo?” — Jaques Plante Got another example? Send it to us at cornerpost@newspressnow.com, and you may see it in a future issue of the Corner Post., former NHL goalie

By Mark Lane Submitted to Corner Post Occasionally, we learn something about a neighbor, friend, co-worker or acquaintance that reminds us that there’s much about people around us we don’t know. Qualities we fail to recognize, or achievements we are not aware of, abound in individuals in our midst on a regular basis. The revelation

By Submitted to Corner Post A person can learn plenty of interesting history and pick up a surprising amount of useful insight at livestock shows, stockyards and other agricultural events. It was at a banquet following a cattle show that I first heard the following poem. Written by Walter Wintle more than 100 years ago,

By Thomas Kirschner Submitted to Corner Post The sun and a farmer awake together He heads to the tractor coffee in hand Now he’s headed to the big field Ready to start plowing his land Meanwhile down the road Another farmer starts his day The cows are all milked Time to bale some hay While

By Submitted to Corner Post Four adult children were bitterly divided following the death of their dad. The oldest son worked the family farm with their father, while the siblings followed career paths in other places. Their mother had passed away a few years earlier. Each of the children began jockeying to divide the estate

By Corner Post Ain’t That the Truth! The probability that someone is watching you at any given moment is directly proportional to the foolishness of your actions. Moms of small children know that there are two kinds of dirt: dark and light. The dark kind is attracted to light objects and the light kind is