The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 November 19, 2008
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1908-1933-1958-1983-1998

100 Years Ago (1908)

Stanley Sunbeams – Walter Brant while hunting north of this place on Sunday morning was dangerously wounded in the thigh near the hip-joint by a shot fired at a deer.
 
A. Stryk moved his machinery for the manufacture of box material to the sidetrack three miles east of the village some time ago and will buy a large stock of bolts and logs this winter.
 
75 Years Ago (1933)
 
Tuesday night sneak thieves again invaded the garage of August Kuehl and relieved him of the two back wheels from his car.  No trace has been found of the stolen goods or the robbers.
 
50 Years Ago (1958)
 
With today’s newspaper, The Thorp Courier starts its seventy-sixth year of publication.
 
A 14-year-old deer hunter, Dennis Tlusty, Town of Medford, died shortly before 11 o’clock Saturday morning in Medford Hospital of an accidental gunshot wound.  Young Tlusty became the first deer hunting fatality in Taylor County this season.
 
The death toll for the first three days of the Wisconsin deer hunting season has reached 13 – equaling the fatality count for the entire nine-day hunt last year.
 
25 years Ago (1983)
 
Jim and Ginny Bix are the proprietors of Jim’s Engine Repair and Thorp Typewriter and Cash Register Sales and Service, a new Thorp business, which held its grand opening last week.
 
The Thorp American Legion Post 118 honored its World War I veterans at their Veteran’s Day ceremony held Friday, November 11, at the legion hall.  They are Joe Klak, John Barth, Tom Polnaszek, William Launspach, Andrew Strzok, Stanley Harycki and Joe Benzschawel.
 
Ed Orzechowski, 21, Thorp, received the American Farmer Degree at the National Convention of the Future Farmers of America, held last weekend at Kansas City, MO.
 
10 Years Ago (1998)
 
Dan Stroinski, Thorp Lions Club president, presented a check for $10,000 to Mayor Roger Hoffman for new playground equipment in the Thorp City Park.
 
In a time when small businesses come and go all too frequently, The Thorp Courier celebrates 116 years of continuous business.
 
Delton and Marie Ebben celebrated 60 years of marriage on Sunday, October 4, 1998.