The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 April 30, 2008
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1908-1933-1958-1983-1998

100 Years Ago (1908)

Reseburg Ramblings – Arthur Bobb was given a surprise party at his home last Friday evening it being his 21st birthday. Games were played and an excellent supper served, and a good time enjoyed by all present.

Lublin News – The first Mass will be held in the polish church next Sunday, May 3rd.

No less than twenty Polish families have arrived here during the past two weeks and have taken farms in the Town of Roosevelt. Many more families are expected.

The organization of a baseball team was perfected here on Monday evening last with R. H. Tolford as manager.

At Gilman this week the post office department established a post office.

75 Years Ago (1933)

Starting next Sunday, April 30th, all outgoing mail will be dispatched from the Thorp post office to Train No. 2 at 12:14. Heretofore no mail went out of Thorp from Saturday evening until Monday noon.

Louis Rusch, electrical contractor, expects to start in next Monday on repairing the Thorp White Way street lights and changing the present “series” system to a “multiple” system.

50 Years Ago (1958)

Ernie Stauss of Thorp was elected District Chairman of the White Pine District of the Chippewa Valley Council at the district meeting held Wednesday at the Holy Rosary Church in Owen.

The doors of the Clark County Hospital, east of Owen, will be thrown open to the public between 1 and 4 p.m., Sunday, May 4. The open house will be held in observance of National Mental Health week.

25 Years Ago (1983)

A new visiting policy at Victory Memorial Hospital in Stanley was recently established and the first family to take advantage of the policy was the Krzyzanowskis of Thorp.

Mr. Joseph Keating received the Clara Barton Honor Award for meritorious volunteer leadership for his twenty-five years as the chairperson of the Clark County Water Safety program.

10 Years Ago (1998)

Nolechek’s Meats has proven over the years that their products have something “extra special” that judges recognize as a superior product. The family owned and operated company competed April 17-19 in the Wisconsin Association of Meat Processors competition held in Middleton, Wisconsin in which 888 products were entered.