The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
June 23, 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 – On account of drought the crops in the surrounding country do not look very promising for the coming year.
 
Section foreman, Geo. Yoder, resigned his position here last week and moved to Gilman where he has accepted a similar position on the S. M. & P. Railway.
 
John Kolpien, one of the oldest settlers of the Town of Worden died of dropsy at his home in that town on Sunday, June 19, 1910, aged 77 years 5 months and 3 days.
 
The directors of the Thorp Dairy Co. held a meeting on Saturday evening last to make necessary arrangements for equipping their plot with a septic tank or reservoir system for purifying the waste water before running the same into the creek.
 
The thermometer has indicated warm weather during the past week.  92 in the shade has been the order every day.
 
75 Years Ago (1935)
 
Roy P. Heagle, operating at Gilman as the Gilman Manufacturing Co., took possession of the Toy Works plant in Stanley early this week with H. A. Hanson in charge of operations for the present.
 
Ted Stroinski is substituting on mail route No. 1 in place of Louis Kaczor and Walter Verkuilen on route 3 for Fred J. Schmidt, the regular carriers taking their annual vacations.
 
Neiman’s Corner – M. Olejniczak is sawing logs for Geo. Zukowski on his forty on the county line. – Michael Lukaszewicz bought the 120-acre farm from Stanley Kopczuk. Consideration $1,500
 
50 Years Ago (1960)
 
Ross Lawrence, president of the Peoples Exchange Bank of Thorp was among 15 Wisconsin bankers who were honored Monday evening by the Wisconsin Bankers Assn.
 
Tuesday evening the Thorp School District entered into a contract with a private firm to transport students to and from the Thorp Public Schools, which they will operate next year.
 
A gang free-for-all was nipped promptly by Police Chief Ed Harycki, County Traffic Officer Dave Bertz, Billy Harycki, and Ray Arndt on Monday evening at St. Hedwig’s Ballroom.
 
25 Years Ago (1985)
 
Crowned as the 1985 Miss Thorp and Princess Thorp were Queen Lynette Van Ert, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Van Ert and Princess Allison Harycki, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Silver Harycki. Crowned Miss Congeniality was Bonnie Stokosa, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Stokosa; 2nd runner up, Renee Penk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Penk; 1st runner up, Catherine Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Phil Miller.
 
The Thorp City Council approved 5-0 a motion to purchase $3,350 worth of materials for a concession stand/electrical facility at Northside Ball Park, provided the Thorp Softball League provides the labor to construct the facility.
 
10 Years Ago (2000)
 
A delegation of Russian grocers visited Thorp last Friday to pick up marketing strategies for their businesses back home.
 Low and moderate-income Thorp residents may soon get help with repairs in the form of no-interest loans of up to $15,000.  The City of Thorp is applying for a Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) from the State of Wisconsin.