The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
March 4, 1993
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1893-1918-1943-1968-1983

100 Years Ago (1893)

L. H. McGuire’s bus team enjoyed themselves by running away three times on Saturday last.  No damage!

Miss Carrie Keller, of Graceville, Minn., and C. D. Overeacker, for several weeks night operator here, were married in this village on Feb. 13th.

Among those contemplating building handsome new dwellings in this village the coming summer are Max Weber, E. R. Wiley and P. Schroeder.

M. S. McKee went to Plover Saturday last to take charge of the school there.  Ed. Fults has taken the Sterling school where Mr. McKee has been teaching for several weeks past.

M. Cotter, who is employed in M. Denney’s camp north of Stanley, was in town on Sunday.  He reports the hauling of a load of logs scaling 12,400 feet a distance of three miles, with one team, at Mr. Denney’s camp on Saturday last.

On Monday evening last a night crew was put to work at J. W. Cirkle & Sons stave and heading factory in this village. Three heading saws are being run nights, which will greatly increase the amount of manufactured stock and also give employment to about twenty more men.  Having plenty of stock for the entire seasons run; this step was made necessary.  This company are also building more sheds, and getting lumber on the ground for their new dry kilns.

Stanley Sunbeams – At the present time nearly 2,000,000 feet of logs are piled in Nye, Lusk & Hudson’s mill yard at this place. – The N.W.L. Cos mill has been overhauled this winter, and another set of machinery has been put in on the south side of the mill so that its cutting capacity is now twice as much as it was before.

75 Years Ago (1918)

Neiman’s Corner – Stanley Neiman went to Neillsville last Sunday to be examined for army service.

Butlerville – Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Tieman are the proud parents of a baby girl, born the 23rd.

Reseburg – Roy Brown, who has been failing in health for several weeks, was taken to the Luther Hospital at Eau Claire Friday.

South Point – Conrad Barth and Willie Hickman were called to Neilslville last week for physical examination.

Worden – Wm. Krause Jr. went to Davenport, Iowa, last week to take chiropractic treatment.  His sister, Miss Elsie, accompanied him.

Bonczyk’s Corner – Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Anton Lindquist a daughter on Feb. 22 – Mrs. Cebelinski who has been sick was taken to the hospital at Marshfield where she underwent an operation for appendicitis. – School is being taught every Saturday so to have an early vacation and let the children help with the garden work in the spring.

A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. F. Rusk on Wednesday of last week.

Among the young men from this vicinity who were called to report to the county board of examiners at Neillsville during the past week were: John Shabach, Conrad Barth, Tony Glamkowski, Wilfred Vanderhyden, Guy Leiby, Henry Irish, Chas and H. Thiel, Joe Radke, Stanley Ulasiuk, Hugo Quast, Mike Lesniewski, John Crowley, L. Zukowski, Joe Hilgert, Wm. McParland, Joe Walsdorf.

Mike Lesniewski and John Crowley, who were examined at Neillsville, last week as to their fitness for army service and placed in class A, have volunteered and leave here today for Columbus, Ohio, to enter the engineer corps and will be assigned later.

Mr. Edgar Wood and Mrs. Lottie Howe were united in Marriage Saturday, Feb. 16, 1918, at the Baptist Parsonage.

Word has been received that August Pagel now in Uncle Sam’s service left for somewhere across about two weeks ago.

Mary Pagel, past two and one-half years supervisor and anesthetist at the Iowa Lutheran Hospital of Des Moines, has been appointed assistant superintendent of nurses at the institution and on her spare time is taking a course in Pathology and Radiology.

Death again invaded the home of J. D. Elmendorf last week and claimed the wife and mother of that household.  A son aged ten years, died about two weeks ago, and the constant, vigil of the mother at his bedside, in conjunction with heart trouble caused a sudden collapse on Thursday evening last ending a short time later in death.  Eliza Jane Alger was born at Rushford, Wis., on April 3, 1871, and died Feb. 21, 1918.

50 Years Ago (1943)

The task of issuing Ration Book No. 2 to families in this community went along smoothly last week and was completed on Thursday evening with a total of 5,018 books given out.  The number of declarations received (one for each family) was 1,338.

A. M. Aslakson purchased the N. P. Hanson residence property last week.

Roger Creek – Mr. and Mrs. Chester Powell of Mobridge, S.D., write that they have a new daughter named Mary Elizabeth.

Breezy Hill – Mr. and Mrs. Otto Beckman received an announcement of a new grandson, Lloyd Arnold Butterfield at Hayward on Feb. 17th.

Neiman’s Corner – Mrs. Michael Lukasiewicz was taken to St. Joseph’s Hospital last week, where she was operated on for appendix and gall stones last Wednesday.

25 Years Ago (1968)

An Owen-Withee High School senior, Duane A. Smith, 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Milford Smith, route 2, Owen is Clark County’s latest highway accident victim.  He was killed about 9 p.m. last Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2 ½ miles east of Owen on Highway 29, when the pickup truck which he was driving collided almost head on with a semi truck.

Antonia Wozniak, 83, of Owen, died Friday morning at the Clark County Hospital.

Word has been received by area relatives of the death of Caroline Lee Joyce, 64, in Oakland, Calif., on Feb. 22nd.

Funeral services for Ivan Kuehl, 21 years old, were held on Jan. 25, 1968.

Pfc. John A. Orzechowski had basic training at Fort Campbell, KY.  After basic training he had advance training for twelve weeks at Fort Eustis, VA in how to repair and fly helicopters and firing guns.

South Worden – Mr. and Mrs. Larry Dahl are the proud parents of a new baby boy born Feb. 12.

Bobb’s Mill – Word was received last week of the death of Mrs. Pearl Kendall of Spokane, Wash.  Mrs. Kendall the former Pearl Marshall was born and raised in our community.

Breezy Hill – A baby boy weighing 8 lbs. 9 oz, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Frinack Jr. at Chippewa Falls Hospital on Sunday forenoon.

Hundreds of former classmates of one of Mount Greenwood’s most popular young men, Pfc. Robert D. Nawrocki, 19, Chicago, Ill., joined  the Felix Nawrocki family and other relatives Feb. 12 in last sad rites for the young marine.  He is the grandson of Mrs. Anna Nendza of Thorp.  Pfc. Nawrocki was killed Jan. 24 in Quang Tri Province, Viet Nam.