The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
May 12, 2010
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of
1910-1935-1960-1985-2000
100 Years Ago (1910)
Worden Wavelets – Walter Muschell moved his family back near Thorp
where he will continue with his work as a blacksmith. Stanley
Sunbeams – Brick-making commenced at the plant on (at) the N-W Lumber
Co. last week so that 40,000 brick are now being made their (there)
daily. M. Nye, H. F. Hudson and George Zillman, who are the
owners of a fully equipped and well stocked 900 acre ranch near Forbes,
N.D., have sold a quarter interest in the same to John Kronberg, who,
with his son, Peter, will take possession and manage the same at once.
75 Years Ago (1935) Gilman – Stanley
Persak moved Sunday to his farm four miles west of Gilman, and has
rented his building for a post office. Rolling Meadows – About
three inches of snow fell Wednesday, so it keeps the farmers off the
fields. Alan Pawelek, alumnus of the Thorp High School ’31 and
now a junior at the Winona State Teachers College, has had conferred
upon him the signal honor of election to membership in the Gamma Tau
Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi at the college. At the Ray R. Smith
auction held Monday, one Guernsey cow was sold for $102.00. This
is the highest price paid at any sale this spring conducted by
Auctioneer Krause. 50 Years Ago (1960)
Any backyard barbeques scheduled for the past weekend were cancelled and
any unfinished odes to spring were forgotten as Thorp residents traded
their lawn rakes for snow shovels Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
The wife of a Cadott area farmer who disappeared about seven years ago
Saturday identified articles found near remains of a body last week as
belonging to her husband. 25 Years Ago (1985)
Jo and Bill Chantelois took ownership of the Thorp Coast
to Coast Hardware Store effective May 1st. Jim and Ginny Bix
opened two new businesses at 207 E. Stanley Street. They operate
Jim’s Engine Repair and Thorp Typewriter and Cash. Kevin and Cathy
Schill opened K. C.’s Sewing machine Repair at the 207 E. Stanley St.
location. Floral arrangements can be obtained for all occasions
from Dwight Isenberger at Reit’s Floral and Greenhouse. Dwight and his
wife, Roxanne held the grand opening for their 102 N. Washington Street
store at the same time as other new businesses. Victory Medical
Hospital of Stanley has purchased the Thorp Medical Center previously
owned by Doctor James Connolly. 10 Years Ago (2000)
Mike’s Family Foods owner Mike Korger attended an out-of-town
family event over the weekend only to return and find that his store
safe had been robbed. The theft was discovered shortly before 6:00
a.m. Monday morning. Thorp area residents were stunned last
Wednesday, may 3, by the death of 15-year-old Kevin L. Wampole resulting
from a one car roll-over accident at Tieman Ave., just .2 miles south of
STH 29 in the Township of Thorp. Chippewa County Deputy William
Kelly’s condition has been upgraded from critical condition to serious
condition after he underwent surgery at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire
Friday night, May 5th, for five gunshot wounds he received as a result
of a verbal domestic trouble that evening.
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