The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
April 4, 1996
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1896-1921-1946-1971-1986

100 Years Ago (1896)

Marshall Jones harbored nine able bodied tramps at the calaboose on St. (Sat.) night last.
 
Farmer S. Gorman is offering his crop of potatoes-splendid Early Rose stock in fine condition, at 5 cents per bushel. Call this farm and help yourself.
 
David, son of Henry Wendt of the Town of Reseburg an employee at Bobb’s Mill in that town, met with a serious accident on Sat. morning last resulting in the loss of three fingers and a portion of his left hand.
 
Stanley Sunbeams – Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Potter on March 16th, a daughter; also to Mr. and Mrs. Al Wry a son, on the 19th of March. – The Stanley Mfg. Co. is doing a steady business with its heading mill and is continuously shipping its heading to various parts of the country.
 
Dr. Selden reports a daughter born to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Lambert on Tuesday.
 
75 Years Ago (1921)
 
Reseburg – Born to Mr. and Mrs. Albert Bernard on March 20th, a son. – A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Horace Mars on March 18th.
 
Herman Bohn has rented his farm to his son, Walter Bohn, and moved to the village last week, occupying the Burke residence.
 
Wm. Gorsegner and crew completed a barn, 36x80 feet in size on the John Novobylski farm on Wed. of last week.  The structure was entirely completed in eight days.
 
Village treasurer, E. R. Wiley and town treasurers: Solon Larson, Jno. A. Papierniak, R. Coates and E. J. Foley made their annual returns to county treasurer John J. Irvine on Thurs. last.
 
O. E. Johnson, while mailing a letter on the mail car on No. 5 on Tues. evening was struck by the mail catcher device and his right arm near the shoulder badly crushed and skull fracture.  The train was moving slowing at the time.  Mr. Johnson was taken to the hospital at Marshfield on No. 4 following the accident, and died at 3:00.
 
Andrew Jacobson, August Kuehi and Wm. E. Smith of Clark County were among the 107 students just graduated from the Short Course in Agriculture at the University of Wisconsin.
 
John Klak of this village, who is attending the University of Wis., has been taking some work in boxing and has made considerable progress in it.  Klak fights in the featherweight class.
 
50 Years Ago (1946)
 
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Burzinski was baptized Catherine Ruth on Sun. March 31st.
 
Mr. and Mrs. John Wojcik received word that a baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Earl Sabrowsky on Fri. evening.
 
Mr. and Mrs. Gordon Deuel purchased the Lutheran Parsonage property on the west side of the village last week.
 
Four Local Boys Enlist.  They are Clifford Ebben, Robert Rubisch, Bruno Pele and Norman Maier.
 
Leo and Ruth Tobola have sold their residence property on the south side to Mike Macadlo through the Bogumill Real Estate Agency.
 
John Pirus sold his dry cleaning establishment at Stanley to Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Hunt of Dallas, Texas.  Mrs. Hunt is the former Jean Myhre of Stanley.
 
25 Years Ago (1971)
 
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Oldroyd of New Richmond are the proud parents of a 7 lb. 3 oz. baby boy born on March 25th.
 
A group of Thorp athletic boosters have put together an appreciation banquet for a man who spent the past 17 years in Thorp working with young people and accumulating one of the outstanding coaching records in the state during that time, Jack Tetzner.
 
Professor Thomas Newton Bobb, 85, of Northland, Wis. died Sun. at an Ashland hospital.
 
Severy Kendra, 75, resident of Gilman, died at St. Joseph’s Hospital, Sat. March 27.
 
Lublin – The baby daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Kalmon was baptized Sun. at St. Stanislaus Church.  They named her Marlyn Marie Kalmon.
 
10 Years Ago (1986)
 
Steve Kozikowski, 76, Thorp, died Sat. March 29, 1986, at Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley.
 
Helen Hedler, 84, Thorp, died Sat. March 29, 1986, at Neillsville Memorial Hospital.
 
Taft – Word has been received that Mack Wincek, a former Taft resident, passed away and was buried in Vega, Texas on March 15th.
 
Lublin – Congratulations are in order for Mr. and Mrs. John Kanarowski on the birth of their son, Mark John, born Thurs. morning.