The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
 May 12, 2010
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

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

100 Years Ago (1910)

Worden Wavelets – Walter Muschell moved his family back near Thorp where he will continue with his work as a blacksmith.
 
Stanley Sunbeams – Brick-making commenced at the plant on (at) the N-W Lumber Co. last week so that 40,000 brick are now being made their (there) daily.
 
M. Nye, H. F. Hudson and George Zillman, who are the owners of a fully equipped and well stocked 900 acre ranch near Forbes, N.D., have sold a quarter interest in the same to John Kronberg, who, with his son, Peter, will take possession and manage the same at once.
 
75 Years Ago (1935)
 
Gilman – Stanley Persak moved Sunday to his farm four miles west of Gilman, and has rented his building for a post office.
 
Rolling Meadows – About three inches of snow fell Wednesday, so it keeps the farmers off the fields.
 
Alan Pawelek, alumnus of the Thorp High School ’31 and now a junior at the Winona State Teachers College, has had conferred upon him the signal honor of election to membership in the Gamma Tau Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi at the college.
 
At the Ray R. Smith auction held Monday, one Guernsey cow was sold for $102.00.  This is the highest price paid at any sale this spring conducted by Auctioneer Krause.
 
50 Years Ago (1960)
 
Any backyard barbeques scheduled for the past weekend were cancelled and any unfinished odes to spring were forgotten as Thorp residents traded their lawn rakes for snow shovels Saturday, Sunday and Monday.
 
The wife of a Cadott area farmer who disappeared about seven years ago Saturday identified articles found near remains of a body last week as belonging to her husband.
 
25 Years Ago (1985)
 
Jo and Bill Chantelois took ownership of the Thorp Coast to Coast Hardware Store effective May 1st.
 
Jim and Ginny Bix opened two new businesses at 207 E. Stanley Street.  They operate Jim’s Engine Repair and Thorp Typewriter and Cash. Kevin and Cathy Schill opened K. C.’s Sewing machine Repair at the 207 E. Stanley St. location.
 
Floral arrangements can be obtained for all occasions from Dwight Isenberger at Reit’s Floral and Greenhouse. Dwight and his wife, Roxanne held the grand opening for their 102 N. Washington Street store at the same time as other new businesses.
 
Victory Medical Hospital of Stanley has purchased the Thorp Medical Center previously owned by Doctor James Connolly.
 
10 Years Ago (2000)
 
Mike’s Family Foods owner Mike Korger attended an out-of-town family event over the weekend only to return and find that his store safe had been robbed.  The theft was discovered shortly before 6:00 a.m. Monday morning.
 
Thorp area residents were stunned last Wednesday, may 3, by the death of 15-year-old Kevin L. Wampole resulting from a one car roll-over accident at Tieman Ave., just .2 miles south of STH 29 in the Township of Thorp.
 
Chippewa County Deputy William Kelly’s condition has been upgraded from critical condition to serious condition after he underwent surgery at Luther Hospital in Eau Claire Friday night, May 5th, for five gunshot wounds he received as a result of a verbal domestic trouble that evening.