The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
July 25, 2007
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1907-1932-1957-1982-1997

100 Years Ago (1907)

Oliver McKee has accepted a good position as teacher in the schools at Merrill.

About twenty persons from this place visited Jump River on Thursday last, the object of the trip being to inspect the copper mine being developed by the Jump River Copper and Mining Company, located on Leavit Creek, a tributary of the Jump near the farm home of B. Boeder.

Louis Bagger & Co., Patent Attorneys, Washington, D.C.; report that recently Paul Glowacki, a resident of this place, obtained a valuable patent for improvements in (the) cultivator for sugar beets.

75 Years Ago (1932)

That portion of the Town of Thorp which withdrew from the Village School district recently, organized School District No. 1 of the Town of Thorp at a meeting of the residents of the district at the Oscar Mertens home on July 12.

Black River claimed the lives of two young men after they had spent most of the day fishing.  The men who lost their lives by drowning were Andrew Harsky, Sheboygan, age 26, and a brother-in-law, Harold Vetterkind, age 24, of the Town of Longwood.

Roger Creek and Town Line – The school census, just taken; shows that there are 33 boys and 31 girls in the Roger Creek district.

50 Years Ago (1957)

Parishioners of St. Stanislaus-Bishop and Martyr Roman Catholic Church at Lublin observed their congregation’s golden jubilee this past weekend.

Sewage tile was laid by the city employees along Main Street this past week completing a job long needed by residents in this part of the city.

Douglas V. Severson, Greenwood, Richard M. Niemi, Owen, John J. Hahto, Owen and Vernon J. Wegner, Withee were inducted into the Army at the Minneapolis induction station on July 10.

25 Years Ago (1982)

Head lice is (are) still a problem in some of the communities of Clark County. Efforts are being made to prevent the widespread number of cases evident a few years ago.

Miss Thorp, Heidi Hoffman, was named Miss Congeniality during the Clark County Fairest of the Fair competition in Loyal, July 24.

10 Years Ago (1997)

One hundred three bicyclists from Wyoming, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana were in Thorp this week taking part in an annual trek from the Mississippi River to Lake Michigan.

Troy and Christina Rens, DDS’s will take up the practice of dentistry in Stanley next month. They will assume the practice of Stanley dentist and resident Tom Sigrist.