The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 February 17, 2010
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1910-1935-1960-1985-2000

100 Years Ago (1910)

Bobb’s Mill and Country ‘Round – Chas Wendt now rides around behind the handsomest team in town – a span of black colts. – Claude Butterfield, a millwright who possesses something more than the average Yankee ingenuity, has invented a lath mill and now has it in successful operation at his farm. His gasoline engine furnishes the power.
 
Diamonds and Hearts at the opera house Saturday night
 
John McGrogan piloted a party of ladies and gentlemen to Emerson’s logging camps north of here on Monday.
 
There were 295 marriages and 892 births reported to the county clerk in this county during the year 1909.
 
Miss Elsie Stracker went to Marshfield on Monday where she will be employed in a millinery store.
 
75 Years Ago (1935)
 
Pineland Corners – Zip Zielanis has the contract for filling Petrulis’ ice house.  He is almost through now, taking the ice from the local dam.
 
George Zillmann received first prize of $15 for high hand at the National Skat Tournament, which took place at Milwaukee last week.
 
Lewis Bradbury, of Neillsville, former clerk of the Circuit Court, was named from a field of 49 applicants by the Clark County highway Committee as the second highway traffic officer.
 
Gilman – A band concert was given by the high school band at the Gilman pavilion on Wednesday. This is the first school band we have had in Gilman.
 
50 Years Ago (1960)
 
Adolph Hebbring, 61, of the Town of Delmar, Route 1 Stanley was found crushed to death by a tree that he was cutting on his farm Wednesday afternoon at about 4 p.m.
 
Upon going to press late Wednesday, the Thorp Courier was notified that Harold Reineke, 53, was accidentally killed at Dowagiac, Michigan.
 
Thorp kept its season record clear here Tuesday night, romping past Stratford 73-36 in a non-conference title.  The Thorp Cardinals, who already clinched the Eastern Cloverbelt title, stormed out after a loggy first quarter to control the remainder of the game, and chalk up their 16th straight victory.
 
25 Years Ago (1985)
 
Minor damage was reported after a barn fire at the William Micke farm, Fire No. 623, in the Town of Worden.
 
On Wednesday, February 6, Larry’s Standard officially became Larry’s Service Station when the station replaced its Standard sign with a Union 76 sign.  Larry Zurakowski said he made the change from Standard products to Union 76 on January 29.
 
The United States Postal Office will have the following rate changes beginning February 17: First Class Letter: $.22 for first oz.; $.17 for each additional oz.  Postal Card: 14 cents; Priority Mail: $2.40 up to two pounds; above two pounds, rates vary by weight and distance.
 
10 Years Ago (2000)
 
The Thorp City Council enacted a new truancy ordinance Monday night to bring the city into conformance with other county municipalities.  Previously, cities had drafted their own ordinances, which sometimes caused confusion in county courtrooms in dealing with truants.