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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 number of the ladies of Thorp have organized a dramatic society, and will soon appear before the public. District Attorney, Geo. B. Parkhill went to Neillsville on Sunday to be present at the opening of court on Monday. The question of license or no license will be submitted to the voters of the towns of Thorp and Withee at the coming spring election, petitions for that purpose having been filed with the respective town clerks. License will no doubt carry by a large majority. C. H. Shelson, M. Wiltgen, Peter Hipke, L. O. Garrison, Geo. L. Lusk, Dr. McCutcheon and ye editor visited Neillsville on Monday on the incorporation matter. Al Blank fractured three of his ribs by a fall while running the snow plow on Tuesday. Mrs. Carrie Peterson, 44, wife of Jacob E. Lucken, died at her home 5 ½ miles southwest of this village on Thursday. The matter of incorporation of this village was killed at the opening of the circuit court term at Neillsville on Monday, for the reason that the notice of making such application lacked two days of the required length of time necessary previous to making such application. The date of application has been changed to April 29th. 75 Years Ago (1918) Reseburg – A general store has been started at Welzien’s Corners in the southern part of this town. There is already a school and cheese factory there and other social and business institutions will probably be added to the new hamlet soon. – A half dozen children who live over two miles from the Reseburg corners school are being hauled by team, the district and state sharing the cost of transportation. South Point – Caesar Barth finished hauling basswood bolts last Friday, the estimate being about 250 cords. Bobb’s Mill – Raymond Briggs has rented P. E. Bobbs’ farm for the coming year. Lombard – Adam Wojtkielewicz had a great loss Monday last, having three head of cattle killed and one hurt two miles east of Northwestern Spur by No. 1. Casper Strzynski sold his farm recently to F. M. Lillick and will move to St. Paul with his family. John Wolfe has purchased Paul Polnazek’s eighty acre farm two miles east of the village and already occupies the same. Leland Nye, a member of the 173rd Brigadier Headquarter Attachment at Camp Pike, Arkansas, arrived home on Saturday last on a ten day furlough and is paying his parents a visit. J. O. Rasmussen has purchased the Otto Dedering residence property on the north side from D. D. Stookey and will occupy the same in a few days. Mr. Rasmussen sold his own residence property last fall to Wm, Krause who expects to move to the village in the near future. Herman Stracker, who has been superintendent of the Thorp Municipal Light & Water Plant for the past sixteen years accepted a position with the Wisconsin-Minnesota Light & Power Co. last week and will continue in their service in the future. Frank Plecity Sr., 82, died at the home of his son, Rudolph Plecity, in this village, on Thursday, March 14, 1918, of general Disability and old age. 50 Years Ago (1943) Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Wechlacz of Chicago, a seven pound baby girl on March 21, 1943. Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Podohla, a baby girl weighing 6 pounds and 12 ounces at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Chippewa Falls, on Tuesday, March 23rd. Marion Dean Much, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ervin Much, was baptized at the Lutheran Parsonage by Rev. Sprengler. At a special meeting in Minneapolis, Tuesday, March 16, some two hundred delegates of local cooperatives in Minnesota, Wis. and northern Iowa which are member-owners of Midland Cooperative Wholesale approved the proposed purchase of a refinery by Midland. March Draftee from Thorp: Army: Joseph Schmitt, Conrad Haas, Paul Cieciora, Wallace Kuehl, Anton Wyczawski, Raymond Knajdek, Alfred Mock, Perry Graham, Robert Fitzel. Navy: David Kile. West Worden – Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Frese, Jr., of the Town of Reseburg, a son on March 21. Neiman’s Corner – A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Urban, Saturday morning. A baby boy, weighing 6 ½ pounds, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Vetterkind on Friday, March 4, 1943. A bouncing baby boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lindquist, of Eau Claire, at the Luther Hospital in that city on Monday morning, March 22, 1943. John Monte weighed eight pounds and fifteen ounces. 25 Years Ago (1968) Thorp man inducted into army, Raymond P. Kodl Carl Theodore Brandt, 72, died Friday afternoon on his farm at route 3, Stanley, Town of Worden, of an apparent heart attack. Firemen Apprentice Richard I. Ehlert, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ehlert, route 2, Thorp, was graduated from the Basic Electricians Mate School at the U. S. Naval Training Center, Great Lakes Ill. Airman Edward G. Lee, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Lee, route 2, Thorp, is serving with Air Anti submarine squadron 29 at the U. S. Naval Air Station, Norfolk, VA. Happy Hollow – Sunday the 17th of March, Mr. and Mrs. John W. Kile will celebrate their 50th anniversary at their home. Chief personnel man Marvin A. Wold; United States Navy received the Joint Service Commendation medal for meritorious services while attached to the Joint United States Military Assistance Command, Bangkok, Thailand. Wold resided at Long Beach, Calif., and is married to the former Elaine Jakowicz.
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