The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
June 23, 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 – On account of drought the crops in the surrounding
country do not look very promising for the coming year. Section
foreman, Geo. Yoder, resigned his position here last week and moved to
Gilman where he has accepted a similar position on the S. M. & P.
Railway. John Kolpien, one of the oldest settlers of the Town of
Worden died of dropsy at his home in that town on Sunday, June 19, 1910,
aged 77 years 5 months and 3 days. The directors of the Thorp
Dairy Co. held a meeting on Saturday evening last to make necessary
arrangements for equipping their plot with a septic tank or reservoir
system for purifying the waste water before running the same into the
creek. The thermometer has indicated warm weather during the
past week. 92 in the shade has been the order every day.
75 Years Ago (1935) Roy P. Heagle, operating at Gilman
as the Gilman Manufacturing Co., took possession of the Toy Works plant
in Stanley early this week with H. A. Hanson in charge of operations for
the present. Ted Stroinski is substituting on mail route No. 1
in place of Louis Kaczor and Walter Verkuilen on route 3 for Fred J.
Schmidt, the regular carriers taking their annual vacations.
Neiman’s Corner – M. Olejniczak is sawing logs for Geo. Zukowski on his
forty on the county line. – Michael Lukaszewicz bought the 120-acre farm
from Stanley Kopczuk. Consideration $1,500 50 Years Ago
(1960) Ross Lawrence, president of the Peoples Exchange
Bank of Thorp was among 15 Wisconsin bankers who were honored Monday
evening by the Wisconsin Bankers Assn. Tuesday evening the Thorp
School District entered into a contract with a private firm to transport
students to and from the Thorp Public Schools, which they will operate
next year. A gang free-for-all was nipped promptly by Police
Chief Ed Harycki, County Traffic Officer Dave Bertz, Billy Harycki, and
Ray Arndt on Monday evening at St. Hedwig’s Ballroom. 25
Years Ago (1985) Crowned as the 1985 Miss Thorp and
Princess Thorp were Queen Lynette Van Ert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Van Ert and Princess Allison Harycki, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Silver Harycki. Crowned Miss Congeniality was Bonnie Stokosa, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stokosa; 2nd runner up, Renee Penk, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Anton Penk; 1st runner up, Catherine Miller, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Phil Miller. The Thorp City Council approved 5-0 a
motion to purchase $3,350 worth of materials for a concession
stand/electrical facility at Northside Ball Park, provided the Thorp
Softball League provides the labor to construct the facility.
10 Years Ago (2000) A delegation of Russian grocers
visited Thorp last Friday to pick up marketing strategies for their
businesses back home. Low and moderate-income Thorp residents may
soon get help with repairs in the form of no-interest loans of up to
$15,000. The City of Thorp is applying for a Community Development
Block Grant (CDBG) from the State of Wisconsin.
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