The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
March 25, 1998
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1898-1923-1948-1973-1988

100 Years Ago (1898)

Stanley Sunbeams – The Village of Stanley received its city charter on Sat. last and the first election of the city officers will take place on the 5th of April. – On Thurs. C. H. Sheldon & Co. sold their drug business here, together with the store building, lot, etc. to Frank Medland and W. H. Bridgman.
 
Dr. McKittrick reports the arrival of a new girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, near Eidsvold.
 
Mike Ramer is the first of the farmers in this vicinity to do any seeding this season, sowing two acres of oats on Fri. 18th.
 
Village Treasurer Chr. Tiedemann reports the welcome information that he collected the taxes on all real estate in the village with the exception of $17.67. Every dollar of personal property tax was paid in full.
 
Mr. John Krupp of Boyd, and Mrs. Rosa Anderson, of this village, were united in marriage at Eau Claire on Tues. of last week.  Mrs. Anderson is a daughter of townsman Chr. Tiedemann.
 
Letters were received from the Copper River, Alaska, bound party on Tues.  All arrived safely at Orea, near the mouth of Copper River.  The letters are evidently the second one’s written since their arrival on the Alaskan coast, and those first written will also probably arrive in the course of a few days.  The boys are all in good health and hopeful, and were engaged in packing and hauling their supplies over ten feet of snow and an enormous glacier to the Copper River, a distance of eighteen miles from their landing place.
 
75 Years Ago (1923)
 
Pozen – The Timothy Belt Cheese Factory paid out for the last half of Feb. 52 cents for butter fat, 10 cents for hundred lbs. whey cream.
 
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Gregoire, of the Town of Worden on St. Patrick’s Day.
 
A. H. Shoemaker, an old civil war veteran and a former resident here, and of the Town of Butler, died recently at his home in Augusta.
 
Mrs. Jno. Melbinger, 86, died at her home in this village on Tues. morning.
 
At a meeting of the Thorp Volunteer Fire Co. held on Tues. evening of last week the soliciting committee appointed at a previous meeting reported having the sum of $458 subscribed for the purpose of defraying the expenses of a celebration at Thorp on July 4th.
 
50 Years Ago (1948)
 
Lloyd Murphy of Lincoln, Neb. has purchased the stock and fixtures of the local Ben Franklin Store.  Mr. Murphy is well acquainted with this business, being in this line of work since 1929. 
 
John Kile, 91, retired farmer, who has been residing with his son, John Kile, Jr., in the Town of Butler, passed away of old age infirmities on Mon. March 15, 1948.
 
A baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Burke Piper, March 9th at Arlington, Virginia.
 
White Birch – Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Frank had their baby daughter baptized at St. Hedwig’s Church, Sun.  They named her Carolyn Sue.
 
Neiman’s Corner – Walter Filipowicz purchased the forty-acre farm from Mrs. Albert Lopatkiewicz. – Wm. Przybylski sold his farm to Jolesiewicz and son-in-law T. Seddon of Chicago, sometime ago, purchased the Chas. Krause farm.
 
Last rites for Mrs. Steve Maslanka, 60, were held at St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church on Mon. March 15th.
 
25 Years Ago (1973)
 
Roy Swanson, 65, passed away Mon. March 19, 1973.
 
An environment portrait “Outdoor of Gail Lewandowski”, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Lewandowski was recently honored at the Wis. State Photographers Convention.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Perzinski are the proud parents of a baby boy.  Their son, Kenneth Anthony, was born Sun. March 18 at St. Michael’s Hospital, Stevens Point.  Grandparents are Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sachs, Owen.
 
10 Years Ago (1988)
 
Matthew Calvin, son of Renee and Al Marek was born Wed. March 16th at Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley.
 
The Thorp American Legion Hall was the setting for the double ring wedding ceremony between Lori Ann Truckey and Michael John Kopacz, on Dec. 5, 1997.
 
Cheri Bieno and Jeff Nourse exchanged marriage vows Sept. 5, 1987 at United Methodist Church, Thorp.
 
Delia Shea, 92, Gilman, died Mon. March 14, 1988 at Gilman Nursing Home.
 
Aaron Matthew, son of Eugene and Michelle Pogodzinski, was born at 3:20 p.m. on March 16, 1988. – Kimerlee Rose, daughter of Randy and Pam Lewan, was born three minutes later at 3:23 p.m.
 
The following students from Thorp area have received the Chancellor’s Award for academic excellence during the first semester at UW-Stout.  They are: Joann Noah, Karen Zurakowski, Holly Szymanski and Thad Hmielak.
 
Julie Kodl a sophomore in Business at Marian College has made the first semester Dean’s List with a grade point average of 3.80.