The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
May 13, 1993
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1893-1918-1943-1968-1983

100 Years Ago (1893)

Peter Ziehr has purchased the vacant Cronin lots near the school house and will immediately erect a dwelling house thereon.

Geo. Beachwood is digging a well on the P. Deforth corner in the Town of Withee where H. Holzhausen is about to erect another cheese factory.

Mrs. Thorp, wife of Joseph G. Thorp, formerly of Eau Claire, died on Thursday last at Santa Barbara.

Wm. Black, while on the drive on Black River, captured three cub bears a couple of weeks ago.  He brought them home last week and they are becoming quite tame, lapping milk as readily as house cats and not at all cross or vicious.  They are beautiful specimens of the bear family and are black.  We understand Mr. Black would dispose of the animals for a reasonable figure.

The order incorporating the village of Thorp was signed by Judge Bailey on Saturday last, the day set, and the election to ratify the same will be held at Hipke & Gerbing’s hall on May 26.

Stanley Sunbeams – Vacant lots on Willard that were sold two years ago for $100 are now easily sold for $800. – The first, and for five years, the only hotel building in Stanley was moved from its old site, last week, to the south side of the RR track to be used as a private dwelling.  This historic landmark was built by Peter Durand in 1881, and has been successively owned and run as a hotel by Peter Huff, Dan Harbaugh, Jas. Mohr, Jas. Doherty and Mike Mohr. – Born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Demarce, on the 26th ult, a son. – William Baker had his right arm cut off above the elbow by a lath saw in the N. W. L. Cos Mill on Thursday last.  Drs. Erdman and McKittrick dressed the wound.

Withee Waifs – C. W. Funk has purchased the first lot west of the hotel from W. S. Tufts and is erecting a store building upon it.  The building will be a neat two-story structure 22x30 feet.  Mr. Funk will move the post office there as soon as it is ready for occupancy.

75 Years Ago (1918)

Neiman’s Corner – Mike Teclaw and Joe Stroinski left for army service. – Mike Wojtkiewicz is making cheese at the county line factory, J. Jaeger being ill.

Stanley Mazurek’s farm dwelling caught fire on Sunday noon last from the chimney.  Melvin Boardman, passing noticed the flame, rushed in, climbed the roof and quickly quenched the fire.  Mrs. Mazurek and daughter were alone at the time and Melvin’s timely assistance no doubt saved the structure.

Joe Czycewicz joined the ranks of volunteer soldiers at Camp Grant last week.

Henry Harper purchased the Nels Courter forty acre farm in the Town of Butler last week.

A card received at this office from Magnus Hansen, son of Mr. and Mrs. N. P. Hansen, announces his safe arrival in France on April 19th.

Phillip Szwaj, John Shabbach, Mike Teclaw, Peter Smoczyk, Hugo Quast, Frank Kowalski and Basyl Harycki left this vicinity for Camp Grant last Friday.

Charley Jager was turned down by a recruiting officer at Eau Claire last July upon his volunteering to join the navy.  He tried again at Eau Claire last week, was accepted and is now at Great Lakes Station near Chicago.

Thomas Bogumill, son of Jos. S. Bogumill, and John and Geo. Klak went to Wausau on Saturday last to take their examination for entrance into the navy.  They left here on Tuesday for the Great Lakes training station.

50 Years Ago (1943)

Thorp High School Class Roll: Lawrence Bauer, Lawrence Beckman, Gladys Beller, Daisy Boardman, Patricia Bogumill, James Cotter, Edwin Czubakowski, Thomas Daines, Helen Depa, Loretta Filipek, Frank Giwojna, Helen Gorsegner, Frank Gulcynski, Marian Haas, Irene Harycki, Joseph Hastreiter, Eileen Henke, Robert Herman, Tillie Jarocki, Violet Juzwiak, Melania Karpinski, Bernard Klewicki, Felix Laniewski, Vernon Lewandowski, Mercedes Maier, Aloysius Navarre, Philip Neis, F. Donald Niedzwiecki, Clarence Nowobielski, Edmund Oniszcuk, Linda Osowski, Antoinette Panek, Leon Papierniak, Louis Pecka, Raymond Skaleski, Frank Sopiarz, Lucille Strzok, Lorraine Szatalowicz, Emily Szpara, Robert Telford, Tony Tyznik, Joyce Wagner, Roger Warner.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hedler and family have moved from the Town of Reseburg on to the former Kleckner farm north of Thorp, which they purchased some time ago.

Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lindquist and family of Eau Claire have moved to Thorp and will reside in the former N. P. Hansen house which they recently purchased.  Mr. Lindquist is to be with the Thorp Implement Co.

Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fisher and children, who have been residing in South St. Paul for some time, returned to Thorp this week.

May 1, 1943, Chester and Susan Filipek exchanged wedding vows at St. Mils Church in Chicago.

A bouncing baby girl, Monica Marie, 10 ½ pounds, arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kaminski, Thursday May 6th.

Gilman – Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Lebiecki a son on Tuesday May 4th.

25 Years Ago (1968)

The Thorp High School Junior Class will present their Junior Prom on Saturday evening, May 11.  Julie Nourse will reign as Queen with Andy Asselin as King.

Funeral services for Jerome Pajak, 27, who passed away April 15th at his home, were held April 19, 1968 at St. Hedwig’s Chapel.

Irving Floyd Dow, 72, Greenwood, died of a heart ailment Thursday evening in the Memorial Hospital at Neillsville where he had been a patient for the past two days.

Bill DeKoskie, 26, Kingston, N. Y., brother of Mrs. Leon Bogumill, Thorp, died on Monday, May 6, 1968 at the Veterans Hospital, Albany N. Y.

Two bouquets of mums were on the altar of St. Hedwig’s Chapel, Thorp for the marriage of Miss Roberta Rae Wald and Robert Anthony Butek on Saturday, April 20th.

Albert Ryley Burss, 90, better known as Ryle Burss, passed away at the Memorial Hospital in Stanley, on April 22, 1968.