The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 January 21, 2009
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1909-1934-1959-1984-1999

100 Years Ago (1909)

Stanley Sunbeams – Lack of school room is again the trouble at Stanley and there is talk of building a ten room school building. – The farm house at Roger Creek about two miles east of Stanley, owned by Theo. A. Hoidahl and occupied by Carl Peterson was burned to the ground on Jan. 14th.
 
The new village hall is complete in all its appointments, including new furniture, steam heat, and handsomely lighted by two chandeliers with the Tongston (Tungsten) style lamps.
 
75 Years Ago (1934)
 
Around the Corner – Walter Cukla is now director of Field School in place of Mike Pilarski, who resigned recently.
 
12,051 domestic money orders were issued at the local post office during the year 1933, amounting to $96,349.09.  Fee paid on these orders was $1,096.99.
 
The teachers of Clark County have been anxious to get work under the C. W. A. or C. W. S. for several weeks.  Many of these teachers are very needy and deserving but so far we have been unable to put any of them to work, with the exception of one man who organized his own class.  A few others are trying to get classes started at the present time.
 
50 Years Ago (1959)
 
Joseph Hilgert, 61, a bachelor, was found frozen to death about 3:30 o’clock Friday afternoon outside his cabin in the Town of Mead, 7 and one half miles southeast of Thorp by a neighbor, Joseph Lato.
 
Receiving an appropriate certificate this week denoting it a “Nationally Certified Livestock Auction Market” was Mattes Livestock Market.
 
25 Years Ago (1984)
 
The donations amounting to more than $130,000 in the wake of the fire that took five of Ammon and Ellen Sauder’s nine children have enabled them to construct a new home on the site, which their old home once stood.
 
Several local contractors attended the regular monthly meeting of the Thorp Board of Education Monday, January 16; to give some cost estimates of renovating the old elementary school.  Total cost of renovation was set at around $200,000, including architecture and engineering fees, plus state fees.
 
10 Years Ago (1999)
 
BOS Systems at 207 E. Stanley in Thorp has a new owner.  James Dopp took over the business on December 4th. 
 
Luke Seaman and Carolyn Voelker, both of Thorp, were among the athletes who competed in this year’s Special Olympics Wisconsin State Fall Sports Tournament in Milwaukee, December 4 and 5.  Seaman placed second in Division 6 bowling competition; Voelker placed fifth in Division 5 competition.