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The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI) Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1892-1917-1942-1967100 Years Ago (1892) 15 degrees below zero Saturday morning last! Hay is a staple article at $15 per ton, delivered, in this vicinity, with chances of a still better price in the near future. The R. R. Company employs a man each night to walk the sections and report broken rails, if there be any; and stops trains if necessary. Getting in logs has not begun in earnest yet in this vicinity as three inches of dry snow is hardly sufficient for good slipping on turnpiked roads. Loggers having ice roads however, are doing big work. Hansen & Rasmussen have completed and sold sixteen sets of sleighs so far this season. They intend to greatly enlarge the capacity of their shops in the near future and turn out much more work than they do now in their line. T. J. Jones and Geo. Helfter have formed a partnership and will hereafter operate the Photo Gallery heretofore run by Mr. Jones. Stanley Sunbeams – Having got a fresh supply of wood the coal kilns are again smoking.—Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. Brown on Dec. 28, a son: also to Mr. and Mrs. James Doherty, on the 29th, a son. Withee – W. S. Tufts has started a blacksmith shop here, with Richard Sullivan at the anvil. – Born, on Jan. 5, to Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Loomis, a daughter. 75 Years Ago Neiman’s Corner – The school directors of this vicinity purchased an oil stove and the teachers are serving hot coffee to their pupils at noon. Eidsvold – Grandma Christopherson passed away Tuesday, January 16th, here at the home of her son Tom Christopherson. The Town of Reseburg has among its road superintendents Caesar Barth who is a live wire indeed. On Monday morning, bright and early, he had a dozen teams and plows at work breaking the roads and making them fit for travel, and the snow was no deeper in Reseburg than in other towns. Good for you, Caesar. F. J. Biles and family have arrived here from Sanboro, N. D., and have taken possession of their farm of 120 acres in the Town of Reseburg. Jos. S. Bogumill was appointed deputy sheriff for this portion of the county by Sheriff Harry Hewett last week. On account of the illness of Miss Orvie, Miss Hattie Cone, from the Stevens Point Normal, has been employed as assistant in the high school during the past three weeks. E. J. Wood, of Eidsvold, passed through here on Wednesday last on his way to Withee, Owen and Longwood with a load of brooms manufactured by him. Mr. Wood has been engaged in making brooms for several years and finds ready market for his product. Kenneth Tiedeman, who went to Camp Douglas last June and later to San Antonio, Texas, where he was attached to the hospital corps, returned to his home here last week. Kenneth is barely of military age and was obliged to secure the consent of his parents before he could enlist. He gained twenty-eight pounds in weight during his sojourn on the border. Almost twelve inches of snow fell on Sunday last. Gilman – Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Strzok on Tuesday, Jan. 15, a daughter. – Woodrow William, the little 8-week old son of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Beam, died Tuesday morning, Jan. 15 and was taken to Thorp for burial on Thursday. Sunday morning ushered in one of the most severe snow and wind storms experienced in this vicinity for many years. Snow began falling in the morning and driven by a heavy gale quickly formed banks on road and walks and made them almost impassable. This condition prevailed all day Sunday and far into the night. Monday morning the walks were nearly all cleared. Country roads, however, were the worst. The four rural mail carriers started out bravely to make their trips on Monday, but returned before getting far owing to the impassable conditions of the roads, the drifts being several feet deep in places for long distances. Road superintendents should take more interest and get out promptly after a heavy storm and see that roads are opened for travel. Trains were also delayed from west and east. 50 Years Ago Certificates for the purchase of 17 new truck tires and four new passenger car tires were approved by the Clark County Tire Rationing Board Saturday. Certificates also were issued for four truck tubes and two passenger car tubes. Virginia, the six months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Konczak of Lublin, died at the Owen Hospital of pneumonia on Thursday, Jan. 15th. Mrs. John Neisius, formerly Mrs. Wm. Strassman, of Thorp, died on January 9th at the home of her daughter, Mrs. C. O. Thomas in St. Croix Falls, Wis., services were held and interment made at Kiel, Wis. on Jan. 12. Casper Skrzypinski, 78 years of age, passed away of old age infirmities, at his home in the Township of Thorp on January 15, 1942. Reseburg – Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Wright are the proud parents of a baby girl born on Wednesday, January 14th. Breezy Hill – A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Alger on Thursday, January 15th. North Hillside – Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Orneal Johnson on January 5th, a baby boy. Taft Township – A daughter, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Joe Wisniewski, Saturday, Jan. 10th. 25 Years Ago A number of Stanley Guardsmen stationed with the local Guard Armory are scheduled to go on their six month tour of active training soon. Five of them will leave next Wed., Jan 18 from Ft. Campbell, Kentucky. They are: Bernard Budzinski, Thorp, Duane Dubiak, Gilman, Roman Pessick, Boyd, Louis Mnikolaicik, Stanley and Steve William, Thorp. A rapidly developing snow, sleet and freeing rain storm sweep through the Thorp area Monday which caused the digging out from under about 4 ˝ inch snowfall Tuesday morning that brought the total of the ground to about 22 inches, and then the cold hit the area Tuesday night brining the temperatures down to 36 below and in some Thorp areas reporting 46 below. Funeral services were held Saturday at St. Stanislaus Catholic Church in Lublin for Cheryl Marie Lis, 11 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Lis, rural Thorp, who died Thursday at St. Joseph Hospital in Chippewa Falls following a lingering illness. Vilas Telford, 64, Thorp, died Monday at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield. Michael Kozikoski, 86, passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Marshfield on Friday, January 13th. Ivar C. Myhre, 72, Stanley, died Tuesday, January 10 in Victory Memorial Hospital.
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