The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
January 24, 2007
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1907-1932-1957-1982-1997

100 Years Ago (1907)

The Thorp Courier published weekly at $1.50 per year. Newspaper press operated by an electric motor.

Stanley Sunbeams – John Knaar is appointed deputy sheriff at this place in place of M. P. Walker whose term expired.

The winter has been very mild up to Sunday last when the thermometer suddenly flopped to about twelve below zero.

The farm residence of Chas. Millard in the Town of Worden was destroyed by fire, the family losing nearly the entire contents.

Local railroad sidetracks are surrounded with about 1000 cords of pulpwood and cordwood ready for shipment.

Peter Bellinger, an old civil war veteran, and a resident of the Town of Thorp for the past twenty-five years, died of paralysis at his home west of Eidsvold on Jan. 16.

75 Years Ago (1932)

Around the Corner – Jos. J. Kulwiec, teacher of the Field School, has been rehired to teach the coming school term again. This will be Mr. Kulwiec’s eleventh consecutive year in this school.

Louis Slupski, a resident of this village, was severely and probably fatally injured, when the truck he was driving met head-on with a large moving van on Fox Hill west of Abbotsford.

The Polish people of Lublin will celebrate on January 31st, the January uprising for freedom of Poland under foreign invasion in 1863. A program for the occasion will be at Ogurek’s Hall, Lublin.

50 Years Ago (1957)

While thousands of college students travel homeward for Easter vacation from classes, at least one St. Olaf student from this area will be flying to Iceland. She is Nancy Lindquist, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. K. E. Lindquist of Thorp.

Five Clark County men, Robert M. Kollmansberger, Jr., Loyal; Lyle E. Voight, Neillsville; Mahlon R. Freedlund, Pittsville; Melvin W. Gruber, Stanley and Henry L. Burzynski, Thorp, were inducted into the Army January 10 at the Minneapolis induction center.

The1957 grasshopper potential is greater in the Thorp area and Northwestern Wisconsin counties than in other sections of the State, report entomologists from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture and the USDA.

25 Years Ago (1982)

Club 73, owned and managed by Louie and Sandy Gagnon, is the recipient of the Golden Butter Knife Award from the American Dairy Association of Wisconsin.

Dave Zakrzewicz, son of Eugene and Dorothy Zakrzewicz, Thorp, received burns to his head, arm, legs and back when the hot oil unit he operated in Guymon, Oklahoma caught fire last Wednesday night.

10 Years Ago (1997)

1997 Sadie Hawkins Court: Travis Petke, Brady Bielecki, Cody Whitmire, Wade Vassey, Richy Palms, Amanda Tollefson, Shannon Einhorn, Alison Harycki, Tasha Budzinski and Holly Grabowski.

Late last year, Ed Mathison changed the name of his real estate office from Soderberg Realty to Mathison Realty. Ed bought the business from Pat Soderberg in 1993. Prior to his involvement in the real estate business, Ed was an Ag instructor and farmer.