The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 November 18, 2009
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1909-1934-1959-1984-1999

100 Years Ago (1909)

Stanley Sunbeams – Stanley has a night school of thirty-five pupils, with three teachers, under the authority of the Board of Education. The pupils are mainly young working men. – Andrew Korn has been elected water commissioner to succeed F. O. Miller, who resigned; and I. B. Halverson has been appointed school commissioner for the second ward to succeed W. A. Hazen, who removed out of the city.
 
Worden Wavelets – There was no Sunday school at River View on account of the high water, the river having over flowed until the road was covered.
 
A severe storm of snow and rain prevailed here all day Saturday, a deluge of water fell, and the snow again disappeared.
 
75 Years Ago (1934)
 
By a vote of 31 to 21, the Clark County Board of Supervisors voted to abolish the present county system of poor relief, effective April 1, 1935, thereby reverting back to the former township system of distribution.
 
The Thorp Courier reached the age of fifty-one years with last week’s number with the original started still at the helm.
 
Around the Corner – Friends and relatives helped Andrew Herman celebrate his sixty-seventh birthday on Sunday.
 
50 Years Ago (1959)
 
Phillip Baker, 17, Gilman, was killed instantly at 11:40 o’clock last Wednesday night in an unusual traffic accident a mile eat of Jump River on Highway 73 in the northwest corner of Taylor County.
 
A tax levy of $674,382.61 to finance the county’s share of 1960 Clark County budget of $3,079,058.56 was approved by the board of supervisors before it adjourned its annual fall meeting.
 
Due to the illness of John W. Rogalski, who was taken seriously ill and is presently at the Marshfield hospital, all of his eleven children came home to visit and assist him for a speedy recovery.  Mr. and Mrs. John Rogalski were honored, the first time in twenty years that all of the children met together at home.
 
25 Years Ago (1984)
 
The Thorp City Council has just about given up on the extended sewer project on Adams St. for this year.
 
Casey Frankewicz, President of the Thorp Alumni Association, donates a book entitled “The World of Owen Gromme” to the Thorp Public Library on behalf of the Alumni Association.  Librarian Mary Ogurek gratefully accepts the book which displays Owen Gromme’s many talents as a wildlife artist.
 
10 Years Ago (1999)
 
Bruce Westphal, Thorp never imagined that anything would come of the entry blank he slipped into the contest box at Mike’s Family Foods on the last day of the contest.  He won two tickets to the Green Bay Packers-San Francisco 49er’s game at San Francisco on Monday, November 29.  The prize included airfare, ground transportation, motel accommodations, tailgate party, and two tickets to the game.  Can it get any better than that?
 
Stephanie Niedzwicki was a winner of the CARQUEST Christmas card design contest.  She received a framed copy of her design, and a V-tech laptop computer.