The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 September 10, 2008
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

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

100 Years Ago (1908)

Polley Notes – The block tower of the Wis. Central Railroad where that road crosses the S. M. Z. P. is completed and in operation.  John Christenson operates the signals from the tower. – Mr. Murdock has fifteen men engaged in putting in sidetracks at Gilman and next week will put in one at Polley. – Nels Olson has the job of putting up a cement block school building at this place.
 
Herman Tiedeman exhibited several four pound black bass on Monday, which he had caught in Black River on Sunday.
 
Ogurek Bros. saw mill located at Whipple Dam north of the village caught fire on Wednesday of last week and was completely destroyed.
 
75 Years Ago (1933)
 
Thorp, winners of the second half of the Cloverbelt League, won from Stanley, winners of the first half at Thorp last Sunday by the score of 8 to 1.
 
Town of Taft News – The fires are still quite treacherous, having burned two stacks of hay and threatening the Bellinger School last Friday.
 
Breezy Hill Cheese Factory Neighborhood – Our neighborhood is well represented at the schools in Thorp this year: Veronica Henke, Meta Beckman and Clyde Misfeldt, seniors; Alvera and Beryl Hubbard, juniors; Dorothy Haas, Dean Hubbard and Pearl Schultze, freshmen, in high school.
 
50 Years Ago (1958)
 
Mattes Livestock Market owners again cordially invite their many friends and satisfied customers to join with them in celebrating this, their 21st year in the sale business.
 
A spokesman in the Eau Claire highway commission office a week ago Friday substantiated the plan for building relocated Highway 29 in five independent sections and confirmed that a request for appropriations for building of the first section near Thorp has been placed for 1959 budget approval.
 
Mr. and Mrs. John Klimeck, formerly of Thorp, have sold the Farmers Home Tavern at Abbotsford to Mr. and Mrs. John Knoll of Stetsonville.
 
25 Years Ago (1983)
 
Dr. Michael H. Melcher of Thorp Wisconsin has been appointed a member of the Medicaid Cost Containment Measures Project Team by the organization’s president, Timothy Kime, O.D., of Toledo, Ohio.
 
10 Years Ago (1998)
 
Gary Haas of Haas Sons, owners of the quarry, lends size and scale to the Long Branch Quarry site where the oldest rock formation in Wisconsin was discovered.  Rock from the quarry was used in the STH 29 expansion.  The Haas quarry exposes a complex group of rocks formed early in the earth’s history, during what is known as the Achaean Era.