The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
March 11, 1993
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

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

100 Years Ago (1893)

Richard Kernighan, employed in the stave factory here for several months past, returned to his home at Pittsville on Friday last.

E. A. Boardman’s saw mill started upon its season’s work on Monday, with a much larger stock of logs in the yards than ever before.

Robert Banderob was struck in the face by a sleigh hook while engaged at work in Ben Bruno’s camp on Friday last.  The injury sustained is painful though not serious.

The large number of new hands being given employment at J. W. Cirkel & Sons stave and heading factory makes house room scarce here at present, several being unable to move their families here on account of the scarcity of dwellings.  A dozen houses could easily be rented now at good figures.

The worst storm in years was experienced hereabouts on Monday and Tuesday.  A foot of snow fell Monday, turning into a heavy rain in the evening which was followed by more snow during Monday night and a raging blizzard on Tuesday.  Logging business is almost at a standstill.

Eidsvold – Lucinda Warner closed her four months term of school in the Worden district last Friday. – Mary Tormey closed a six months term of school in the Miller district south of here recently.

Petitions are being circulated in the towns of Thorp and Withee addressed to the county board, praying for the division of those towns on the line between towns 27 and 28, and forming two new towns.  The petitions require the signature of at least one-third of the voters, which number will no doubt be easily secured in each town, and then submitted to the voters at the annual town meetings, after which it must be presented to the county board for final action.

75 Years Ago (1918)

Worden – Baldeschwiler Bros have commenced sawing logs at their mill and by the looks will have quite a run.

Reseburg – Otto Sommers has installed a new whey pump at his cheese factory which measures out to each patron the exact amount of whey due him.

Eidsvold – The young men of this palce (place) who went to Neillsville for examination are Arthur Lee, Claude and Carl Miller, Martin, Carl and George Eiler. – John Smart, an old resident of this place passed away on March 1st, at the home of Warren Baker.

The sleighing is about petered out, streets being bare.

Cows sold for $116 at the S. Wietrzynski auction on Saturday last.

John Leibole has entered the U. S. service and is stationed at Camp Lewis, Washington.

Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Fischer moved from their Town of Worden farm to the Schmidt farm directly south of the village, last week.

J. F. Wincek has sold his farm to Mary Depa and will have an auction sale at the farm northwest of here on Tuesday, March 19th.

William, Hugo and Theodore Kuehl, sons of Mr. and Mrs. John Kuehl, of the Town of Worden, left here on Wednesday of last week for Valley City, N.D., where the first two named have been engaged in farming for the past seven years.  They have been here for about two months visiting relatives and friends.  Theo. returned with them to learn western farm methods.

Arthur J. Hansman left Jefferson Barracks recently and has been assigned to the 83rd Aero Squad located at Chanute Field, Rantoul, Ill.

F. W. Fischer, a stockholder in the Big Four Canning Co., purchased the Frank Miles eighty-acre farm for that company last week, and the same will be planted in peas and cabbage the coming season.

Ruth Eleanore Darge, 9, passed away at her home in the Town of Worden on Friday morning, March 1, 1918.  Two weeks before she recovered from a severe attack of diphtheria* and apparently was getting along nicely when she was taken sick with the complications of diphtheria* which resulted in hear and kidney trouble.  (* corrected spelling)

The following young men were called to Neillsville on Monday to appear before the county board of examiners: John Dranginis, Herman Doege Jr., Jesse Schroeder, Paul Brunett, Doman Wargulewicz, Otto Dudanski, Max Schultze, John Schultze, Walter Gorecki, Joe Butrim, Stanley Szatkowicz, Edgar Andrews, Andrew Strzok, Harry Vanderhyden, and William Roesler.

50 Years Ago (1943)

Mr. and Mrs. Emil H. Wingad announce the marriage of their daughter, Lucille Avis, to Virgil Schmitt, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. Schmitt of Thorp.

Henry Fischer is with Cadet Group at Garden City Flying School.

Jos. Lesniewski sold his 40 acre farm southeast of Thorp last week to Thos. Kobylarczyk of Cicero, Ill.

Damski’s Corner – Walter J. Hendzel, Henry J. Popowski, Walter Tyznik, Jr., Frank Bonczkiewicz, Joe L. Galarowicz and Raymond Gajda, all of the Town of Roosevelt, left last week for Milwaukee for examinations for the Army.

A nine pound son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Conrad Barth on Saturday morning, March 6, 1943.

An 8 and one-half pound daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. John Hazuga, Jr., at the Victory Hospital in Stanley on Thursday, February 25th.

Word was received by Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Oberle that a daughter, Darlene Esther, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Larson on Monday, Feb. 22, at Michigan City, Ind.

25 Years Ago (1968)

Betty Clasussen (Claussen), Thorp High School, has been named a winner of a $25 U. S. Savings Bond in the Eleventh Annual Thorp Finance Foundation Scholarship Competition, according to Frank Wadzinski manager of the Thorp office.

Breezy Hill – Mrs. Chas. Frinack Jr. and infant son, Jeffery James, returned home from the Chippewa Falls Hospital on Thursday, the little one weighed 8 lbs. 9 oz.

South Worden – Mr. and Mrs. Bart Brandt are the proud grandparents of a new baby boy to Mr. and Mrs. Pete Pewadko of Florissant, MO on March 3rd.

A leap year baby girl named, Charlene Clara was born on Feb. 29th, to PFC and Mrs. David Kielkucki of Fort Huachuca, Arizona.  Mrs. Kielkucki will be remembered here as Clara Zajack.

Mr. Gust Baum born in Poland, 1890, was 77 years old, passed away at the Hialeah Convalescent Home in Hialeah, Florida, where he resided for the past 11 years.

Graveside services were held Sunday, February 18, 1968, and funeral services were held, Saturday eve, Feb. 17, at Harder Funeral Home, Milwaukee for Harry Cordes, 82, from Milwaukee.

On Saturday evening, December 2, 1967, Jacqueline Ann Deutschlander, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Deutschlander, Thorp and Charles Louis Padrus, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Padrus, Rosemead, Calif., were united in marriage at Bethany Babtist (Baptist) Church, Whittier, Calif.

The Rev. W. G. Ruolomaski was the clergyman for the 3 p.m. double ring ceremony at the First Lutheran Church uniting in marriage Judith Caroline McDonald and Earl (Billy) Babbitt.