The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
September 5, 2006
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

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

100 Years Ago (1907)

Stanley Sunbeams – Ole Samulson, David Kienholz, Ole Krogran and other farmers located in the northwest of the Town of Worden and northeast of the Town of Edson have organized a Farmers Mutual Telephone Co. The combination has already erected a line of poles to connect with the main line of the Bell Telephone Co. near Stanley.

Reseburg Ramblings – The Reseburg School is again in session with Misses Florence Wagner and Clara Hansen as teachers.

Worden Wavelets – Wm. Thormahlen received a new talking machine one day last week.

75 Years Ago (1932)

The Thorp baseball team won the Chippewa Valley League baseball championship going through the season with a record of 11 victories in 14 games.

The Timothy Belt Cheese Factory, near Thorp, WI, has just been sold by August Ehlert to B. E. Beyer, a well-known cheesemaker of Gilette (Gillett), WI.  The factory, which is receiving 6,000 pounds of milk daily, was sold for $3200.

Leon Andruskiewicz was badly injured while engaged in pulling stumps and since is in the Owen hospital.

50 Years Ago (1957)

John Wrzos, 67, a resident of the Thorp community, Town of Withee, was killed instantly about 8:30 o’clock Wednesday night when his car rolled over a half mile north of the junction of Highways 64 and 73.

Rev. Arnold M. Muckerheide, 72, pastor of St. Bernard’s Catholic Church here, passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Marshfield on Thursday, August 29, 1957.

Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kobylarczyk who were married at St. Hedwig’s Church by Rev. Francis Pudlo, fifty years ago, celebrated their fiftieth wedding anniversary August 24, 1957 with a 10 o’clock Mass at St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church by Rev. Connie Chilicki.

25 Years Ago (1982)

Alice and Leo Dmytro, School Street, Thorp, will be taking a trip to Las Vegas in September as one of ten winners of free trips to that city offered by Champion Spark Plug Company.

The VTAE District One began its mobile class service to Thorp and Gilman recently.

Four members of the Thorp Area Development Corporation (TADC) traveled to Madison on August 25 to meet with members of the Wisconsin Department to discuss Thorp.

10 Years Ago (1997)

Workers got started on a $103,000 project to improve the city’s ability to remove phosphorus from its wastewater treatment system.  Thorp obtained a general obligation loan to fund the project.