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The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
September 10, 2008
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of
1908-1933-1958-1983-1998
100 Years Ago (1908)
Polley Notes – The block tower of the Wis. Central Railroad where
that road crosses the S. M. Z. P. is completed and in operation.
John Christenson operates the signals from the tower. – Mr. Murdock has
fifteen men engaged in putting in sidetracks at Gilman and next week
will put in one at Polley. – Nels Olson has the job of putting up a
cement block school building at this place.
Herman Tiedeman
exhibited several four pound black bass on Monday, which he had caught
in Black River on Sunday.
Ogurek Bros. saw mill located at
Whipple Dam north of the village caught fire on Wednesday of last week
and was completely destroyed.
75 Years Ago (1933)
Thorp, winners of the second half of the Cloverbelt League, won
from Stanley, winners of the first half at Thorp last Sunday by the
score of 8 to 1.
Town of Taft News – The fires are still quite
treacherous, having burned two stacks of hay and threatening the
Bellinger School last Friday.
Breezy Hill Cheese Factory
Neighborhood – Our neighborhood is well represented at the schools in
Thorp this year: Veronica Henke, Meta Beckman and Clyde Misfeldt,
seniors; Alvera and Beryl Hubbard, juniors; Dorothy Haas, Dean Hubbard
and Pearl Schultze, freshmen, in high school.
50 Years
Ago (1958)
Mattes Livestock Market owners again
cordially invite their many friends and satisfied customers to join with
them in celebrating this, their 21st year in the sale business.
A spokesman in the Eau Claire highway commission office a week ago
Friday substantiated the plan for building relocated Highway 29 in five
independent sections and confirmed that a request for appropriations for
building of the first section near Thorp has been placed for 1959 budget
approval.
Mr. and Mrs. John Klimeck, formerly of Thorp, have
sold the Farmers Home Tavern at Abbotsford to Mr. and Mrs. John Knoll of
Stetsonville.
25 Years Ago (1983)
Dr.
Michael H. Melcher of Thorp Wisconsin has been appointed a member of the
Medicaid Cost Containment Measures Project Team by the organization’s
president, Timothy Kime, O.D., of Toledo, Ohio.
10 Years
Ago (1998)
Gary Haas of Haas Sons, owners of the
quarry, lends size and scale to the Long Branch Quarry site where the
oldest rock formation in Wisconsin was discovered. Rock from the
quarry was used in the STH 29 expansion. The Haas quarry exposes a
complex group of rocks formed early in the earth’s history, during what
is known as the Achaean Era.
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