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The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI) Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1893-1918-1943-1968-1983100 Years Ago (1893) A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jaeger on Thursday last. Night work has been suspended at J. W. Cirkel & Sons staved (stave) and heading factory on account of the scarcity of experienced help. Eidsvold – Nye, Lusk & Hudson are shipping 250,000 feet of logs from Withee to this place to be sawed. “President Cleveland” now if you please. Stanley Sunbeams – A. Weaver sold his house and lot on Carpenter St. last week to Geo. Cummings for $150. – Minnie, the wife of Dennis Keegan, died here on Tuesday of last week at the age of 29 years. The remains were taken to Chippewa Falls on Thursday and buried there in the Catholic cemetery. 75 Years Ago (1918) Butlerville – John Kile and Miss Alma Butler were married in Thorp on Thursday afternoon by Rev. Crow. The bride is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. David Butler and the groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Kile. Jos. Tobola has purchased of Peter Harless an eighty-acre farm in the Town of Worden. Fred McKee, a former resident here is an army recruit; now stationed at Fort Snelling. J. Klouda Jr. and L. J. Zimmerman were at the county seat last week to undergo physical examination for army service. A card received by The Courier from Tony Manczuk on Saturday last announces his safe arrival “over there.” Cards have also been received from Stanley and Ed Glamkowski, Felix Kinast, Cecil Snyder, Glen Wry, Frank Swinton and others. Alexander Wisniewski, 49, died at his home in the Town of Thorp on March 5, 1918, of Tuberculosis. Michael Kubera, 57, died at his home east of the village limits on Monday morning. 50 Years Ago (1943) Twenty-nine men have qualified as certified accountants in an examination held by the State Board of Accountancy, the board announced today. The group included Harold Hiller of Thorp. Mrs. Charles Vetterkind Sr., 62, of the Town of Reseburg, passed away at the hospital at Marshfield on Wednesday, March 10th, death being caused by hardening of the liver. Roger Creek – Vernon Robeson, who with his twin sister, Vernie, was born at Eidsvold, Nov. 25, 1897, died at a San Francisco hospital recently. Bennie Wiernasz, Thomas Davis, and Lawrence Henke, were among those who took their physical examinations at Loyal on Friday afternoon. Russell Glasshof and family of Chippewa Falls moved here on Friday and are now occupying the upper apartment of the Roth home. John Ziehr, 80, a former resident of Thorp, passed away at the home of his son, Paul at Port Washington, Wis., Monday March 15th. Ruby Newslets – Mr. and Mrs. Richard Wagener are the proud parents of a big baby girl born March 7th. Butler – Wallace Kuehl, David Kile, Alfred Mock, and Verne Mason, went to Milwaukee, Monday to have their examination for the army. Northeast Gilman – Word was received here of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Chester Nygren, of Chicago. Mrs. Nygren will be remembered here as Elizabeth Komanec. 25 Years Ago (1968) Arthur L. Mattes, 49, passed away at Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley on Thursday, March 7, 1968, after a lingering illness. A rural Greenwood youth is dead and a Spencer man in critical condition after a car-pickup truck accident two miles west of Loyal on Hwy. 98, shortly before 8 p.m. Sat., John D. Mondlock (Madloch?), 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Delbert Madloch (Mondlock?), route 1, Greenwood, was dead on arrival at Memorial Hospital of crushed chest injuries. The Eau Claire Chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, and Honor Society in Education, chose Miss Betty Tobola, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Tobola of Thorp and a junior at Eau Claire State University, to be their delegate to the Twenty-sixth biennial convention in Denver, Colo., which was held on March 6-10. Joseph Z. Keating, Thorp, was awarded the Bachelor of Science degree by the University of Wisconsin at Madison as the first semester of the University’s 1967-68 school year closed recently.
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