The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
March 10, 2010
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of
1910-1935-1960-1985-2000
100 Years Ago (1910)
Stanley Sunbeams – A crew of juvenile laborers who were piling short
firewood here for the Chicago Wood & Coal Co. at the hired price of $28
per month struck for an increase of wages and were promptly paid off and
discharged. Bobbs’ Mill and Country ‘Round – Christ Gorsegner
and Arthur Bobb have dissolved partnership. Art has taken possession. –
The “grippe” has had a sever grip on quite a number of our people the
past week. Felix Mikolainis had one of his hands badly lacerated
in a feed cutter on Monday. Fire destroyed the large kilns at
the Thorp Manufacturing Co’s heading plant on Monday afternoon.
75 Years Ago (1935) Out O’ The Pines (Thorp
High School Publication) – Bang, bang, each pound of the hammer is
bringing the new auditorium closer to completion. We seniors take a
special interest in it because we will be the first class to be
graduated in it. Bellinger Square – Several farmers in this
vicinity lost cattle as a result of Bang’s disease tests. The
Thorp Courier’s oldest subscribers still on our list: J. J. Hayes – June
6, 1884; Dr. W. R. McCutcheon – April 8, 1884; Mrs. B. F. Rusch – Oct.
22, 1884; Mrs. W. B. Seldon – Dec. 14, 1883; S. S. Warner – May 6, 1884;
Mrs. Herman Banderob – March 4, 1886; Mrs. Fred Borck – June 11, 1887;
Louis Bachaus – Jan. 7, 1889; Eph. Lindquist – Dec. 8, 1887; Wm. Poppe –
Nov. 6, 1886; John Heagle – Nov. 26, 1889; and H. M. Leibole – March 28,
1889. 50 Years Ago (1960) The new
arrivals at Victory Memorial Hospital are going to have to wait four
years for their first birthday. The leap year babies, born February 29,
are a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kotecki of Thorp and a girl to Mr. and
Mrs. James Clark of Withee. Hugo Quast 66, a former rural
carrier out of he Thorp post office, died of a stroke Tuesday, March
1st, 1960 at the Marshfield Hospital where he had been a patient since
Feb. 28th. 25 Years Ago (1985) The
Thorp FBLA Chapter is proud to announce that Mr. Jim Pfalzgraf, of the
Thorpedo Restaurant in Thorp, has been named Thorp FBLA Businessperson
of the year 1985. The Wisconsin FBLA State Office has just
announced that the Thorp FBLA Chapter placed first in the Outstanding
Chapter event at the Region II Leadership Conference, not second as
previously reported. Ellen M. Peleschak, Thorp, has been named
as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America for 1984 by the Board
of Advisors of the Outstanding Young People of America.
10 Years Ago (2000) Carolyn Voelker of Thorp will be
one of eleven athletes from the Wisconsin Special Olympics to compete at
the Special Olympics Winter World Pre-Games in Anchorage, Alaska on
March 9-11, 2000. Local firefighters received a call to fight a
grass fire last Saturday at 2:20 p.m. Fourteen firemen responded
to the fire at the residence of John Anderson, N12491 Fernwal Ave. in
rural Stanley. Just a day later, at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday,
firefighters were called out again, this time to fight a house fire
owned by Duane Licht at N14377 Bluff Ave. in rural Stanley. It
took twenty volunteers about five hours to put out the fires.
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