The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 December 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)

Stanley Sunbeams – Stanley is growing quite city-like.  The residences are now numbered.  The names of many of its streets have been officially changed and better than all the names of its streets are posted at the corners thereof.
 
Polley Notes – Mr. Labbs from Medford has his barbershop about completed and is ready to give you a nice clean shave.
 
Game Warden C. S. Little has started on his tour of arrests at the close of the deer season.  There is trouble facing Clark, Chippewa and Marathon County parties.
 
75 Years Ago (1933)
 
John Herman, 21 year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Herman of this village, was instantly killed early Sunday morning, his birthday, when the new Plymouth sedan he was driving collided with the Chevrolet truck owned by Fred Spicaze of Milwaukee.
 
The Reverend Stanislaus Siegienski will be ordained to priesthood for the Diocese of Lincoln, in St. Mary’s Cathedral, Lincoln, NE, at 10 a.m. on December 8th by His Excellency, the Most Rev. Louis B. Kuchera, D.D., L. L. D., Bishop of Lincoln.
 
50 Years Ago (1958)
 
The Thorp Players, Inc. staged their first production “See How They Run” at the Thorp High School Auditorium on Saturday and Sunday evenings, Dec. 6th and 7th, to two truly receptive and somewhat hysterical crowds smitten with laughter. 
 
For the first time in Thorp, Santa Claus will arrive this year in an airplane and he will bring with him a real circus for the delight of youngsters and oldsters.  He is scheduled to arrive here in his own snow-white Piper cub plane at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon, December 15th.
 
25 Years Ago (1983)
 
Area service personnel will once again be able to receive the local newspaper, The Courier, free of charge thanks to a Christmas donation courtesy of the Peoples Exchange Bank, Hempleman Thorp Lumber and The Thorp Courier.
 
Bernard Mertens, member of the Cecil Tormey Post No. 118, Thorp American Legion, is a candidate for the office of State Sgt.-at-Arms with the election to take place at the 1984 state convention.
 
10 Years Ago (1998)
 
While record temperatures were recorded across the state last week, Becky Milliren’s fifth grade class took advantage of the beautiful unseasonable weather to harvest their earthworms out of doors in sunshine and short sleeves.
 
Thorp Elementary second grader, Jenna Kotecki, was the winner of the American Education Week poster contest.  Jenna received a certificate and a check for $50.