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The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
April 8, 1998
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of
1898-1923-1948-1973-1988
100 Years Ago (1898)
W. L. Gibbs of Chippewa Falls has rented Geo. Clark’s farm west of
the village and took possession on April 1st.
Miss Maggie
Voelker and Henry Howard, who are attending the Stevens Point Normal,
are enjoying a week’s vacation with relatives here.
H. E. Howard
has purchased the James building and lot, located near the Commercial
House, of M. Wiltgen, and will remove his barber shop and photograph
gallery to the new location this week.
Miss Zora Covert began
teaching the school in the Smart District west of Eidsvold on Mon.
Ollie McKee resumed the same line of work in the Colby District, Town of
Reseburg; Everard Sterling, The Roger Creek School west of Eidsvold.
75 Years Ago (1923)
Wild Cherry – A son
was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Burzynski on Sun. April 1st.
A
daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharon, March 25th. Mrs.
Henning will be remembered here as Julia Timon.
Anton
Borysiewicz and Ed. Bogumill, who are attending school at Madison, are
spending a few days at their respective home here.
Andrew
Bogumill recently sold his large farm northeast of the village to his
sons, John G., William and Peter Bogumill and has moved to this village
having purchased a small building west of the Big Four Canning Co’s
plant.
The large modern residence owned and occupied by village
clerk Herman Holzhausen was destroyed by fire on Fri. forenoon last.
Peter Osowski, 31, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Osowski of the Town
of Withee, died at the Riverside Sanitarium near Stevens Point on Fri.
March 30, 1923.
50 Years Ago (1948)
Julius J. Rossman, 62, Route 1, Gilman, was fatally injured last Wed.
when a reconverted jeep, being used as a tractor, crushed him against
the wall of his garage.
Mrs. Henry M. Leibole, 90, passed away
at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Chippewa Falls on Sat. last of old age
infirmities.
Word was received here of the death of Walter
Knapik, a former Thorp farmer and well known here as a painter, passed
away at his home in Chicago on March 16th.
A seven pound, one
ounce son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Culbert, of Eau Claire at the
Sacred Heart Hospital on Fri. March 26th. Mrs. Culbert is
remembered here as Marion Micke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Micke of
Thorp.
25 Years Ago (1973)
Louis M.
Mroz passed away at the Hinsdale Hospital, Hinsdale, Ill., after a long
and lingering illness.
Bernard Louis Slota, 78, resident of
Gilman passed away suddenly on Fri. March 30th, at his home in Gilman of
an apparent heart attack, while burning grass by his house.
Jill
Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hanford Anderson, and Gary
Benzschawel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Benzschawel, have been chosen as
Thorp High School’s Badger Girl and Badger Boy for 1973.
Word
was received here of the death on March 7, 1973 of Joseph Kotecki of
Chicago, a former resident of Thorp.
South Worden – Mr. and Mrs.
Gerald Miler are the proud parents of a boy, David Joseph, born March
27th.
10 Years Ago (1988)
Valeria
Lisiecki, 85, Lublin, died Mon. April 4, 1988 at Victory Memorial
Nursing Home, Stanley.
A son, Patrick William, was born Thurs.
March 31, 1988 to William and Sue Hogan Jr. of Elk Grove, IL. Sue Hogan
is the daughter of John and Theresa Dranginis of Mount Prospect, IL.
The baptism of the son of Henry and Elizabeth Klopotowski of
Greenwood, Ronald Martin was Sun., April 3, 1988 at St. Bernard-St.
Hedwig Church.
Anthony Hackbarth, son of James and Brenda
Hackbarth of Thorp, has been accepted for enrollment for the fall
semester at Indiana Institute of Technology in Fort Wayne. Anthony
will graduate from Thorp High School this spring.
Frank and
Julia Grendys celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on March 19,
1988.
Margaret Richdorf, 75, Stanley, died Tues. March 29, 1988
at Victory Memorial Nursing Home.
Jane Tometczak and Mark
Morrison were united in marriage March 5, 1988 at St. John’s Lutheran
Church, Pittsville.
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