The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
December 12, 1991
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1891-1916-1941-1966

100 Years Ago (1891)

A 10 lb. daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Parkhill, on Friday last.

Remember the deer law has expired and wait for darkness before you enter the clearing.

Mr. Herbert Brintnall and Miss Minnie Tiedeman were married at Eau Claire on Thanksgiving Day, having gone there for that purpose the day before.

The day is not very far distant when nearly every stick of timber will bring fancy prices.  Don’t turn up your nose at timber land if you are after a farm.  When starting in without capital you will often find timber a very convenient resource, while under similar circumstances on the prairie you would have to hamper yourself with debt.

Herbert Adams and Maggie Frese were married at Boyd one day last week.

C. W. Christian, of Sterling, was married to a young lady of Merrillan, whose name we have failed to learn, last week.

Married on Nov. 29th at the Douglas House in this village, by Geo. Burke, J.P. Mr. Herman Grupp and Miss Apelonia Bernhard.

Hansen & Rassmussen have manufactured several ordinary farmers four-foot sleight (sleigh) which should be inspected at their shop by anyone in need of a good well put up bob.

Last summer when butter was worth10¢ per pound and plenty of it, most of our farmers were in a rage because there was no market for it.  Now butter is worth more than double that amount and none to be had in large quantities.  Why wouldn’t it be a good idea for the farmer to put up a small ice house this winter and hold his butter next summer until a time when it is worth something?

75 Years Ago

Mrs. Eva Gorz, 75, passed away at the home of her nephew, Joe Starzyk, in Chicago, on Friday, Dec. 5, 1941, of old age complications.

Taft – Olaf Hegli, 80, died in the Medford Hospital last Tuesday and was buried from St. John’s Lutheran Church on Yellow River, Friday afternoon.

Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blazel, of Washington, D.C., a nine and one-half pound baby boy on Sunday Dec. 7, 1941, Mrs. Blazel being remembered here as Miss Katherine Bogumill.

Neiman’s Corner – A son, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lukasiewicz Friday morning.  They will name him Kenneth.

Northeast of Gilman – Joe Haase is slowly recovering from an appendix operation.

25 Years Ago

Attorney David P. Nitkowski, formerly of Oshkosh, has become associated with Attorney Corwin C. Guell of Thorp.

Funeral services were held at St. Hedwig’s Chapel, Saturday, December 3rd for Stanley a. Neiman, 76, who passed away of a heart attack, at Palatine, Ill., on Wednesday, November 30th.

Russell Boardman, Oconomowoc claimed Miss Clovis Ann Newell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Newell, Lincoln, Nebraska, as his bride in a ceremony read Saturday, Nov. 12, in Faith Lutheran Church, Lincoln, Nebraska.  Mr. Boardman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Boardman, Thorp.

Elias Lemanski, 62, of Milwaukee, (formerly of Lublin) passed away on Thursday, November 17, 1966.

Funeral services for John Skwierczynski, 84, were held Saturday at St. Mary’s Church in Stanley, with burial in St. Mary’s Junction cemetery.

Births -- at Stanley Hospital, November 29, 1966, son to Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pawlicki, route 2, Thorp.