The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 March 10, 2010
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

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

100 Years Ago (1910)

Stanley Sunbeams – A crew of juvenile laborers who were piling short firewood here for the Chicago Wood & Coal Co. at the hired price of $28 per month struck for an increase of wages and were promptly paid off and discharged.
 
Bobbs’ Mill and Country ‘Round – Christ Gorsegner and Arthur Bobb have dissolved partnership. Art has taken possession. – The “grippe” has had a sever grip on quite a number of our people the past week.
 
Felix Mikolainis had one of his hands badly lacerated in a feed cutter on Monday.
 
Fire destroyed the large kilns at the Thorp Manufacturing Co’s heading plant on Monday afternoon.
 
75 Years Ago (1935)
 
Out O’ The Pines (Thorp High School Publication) – Bang, bang, each pound of the hammer is bringing the new auditorium closer to completion.  We seniors take a special interest in it because we will be the first class to be graduated in it.
 
Bellinger Square – Several farmers in this vicinity lost cattle as a result of Bang’s disease tests.
 
The Thorp Courier’s oldest subscribers still on our list: J. J. Hayes – June 6, 1884; Dr. W. R. McCutcheon – April 8, 1884; Mrs. B. F. Rusch – Oct. 22, 1884; Mrs. W. B. Seldon – Dec. 14, 1883; S. S. Warner – May 6, 1884; Mrs. Herman Banderob – March 4, 1886; Mrs. Fred Borck – June 11, 1887; Louis Bachaus – Jan. 7, 1889; Eph. Lindquist – Dec. 8, 1887; Wm. Poppe – Nov. 6, 1886; John Heagle – Nov. 26, 1889; and H. M. Leibole – March 28, 1889.
 
50 Years Ago (1960)
 
The new arrivals at Victory Memorial Hospital are going to have to wait four years for their first birthday. The leap year babies, born February 29, are a boy to Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Kotecki of Thorp and a girl to Mr. and Mrs. James Clark of Withee.
 
Hugo Quast 66, a former rural carrier out of he Thorp post office, died of a stroke Tuesday, March 1st, 1960 at the Marshfield Hospital where he had been a patient since Feb. 28th.
 
25 Years Ago (1985)
 
The Thorp FBLA Chapter is proud to announce that Mr. Jim Pfalzgraf, of the Thorpedo Restaurant in Thorp, has been named Thorp FBLA Businessperson of the year 1985.
 
The Wisconsin FBLA State Office has just announced that the Thorp FBLA Chapter placed first in the Outstanding Chapter event at the Region II Leadership Conference, not second as previously reported.
 
Ellen M. Peleschak, Thorp, has been named as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America for 1984 by the Board of Advisors of the Outstanding Young People of America.
 
10 Years Ago (2000)
 
Carolyn Voelker of Thorp will be one of eleven athletes from the Wisconsin Special Olympics to compete at the Special Olympics Winter World Pre-Games in Anchorage, Alaska on March 9-11, 2000.
 
Local firefighters received a call to fight a grass fire last Saturday at 2:20 p.m.  Fourteen firemen responded to the fire at the residence of John Anderson, N12491 Fernwal Ave. in rural Stanley.  Just a day later, at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, firefighters were called out again, this time to fight a house fire owned by Duane Licht at N14377 Bluff Ave. in rural Stanley.  It took twenty volunteers about five hours to put out the fires.