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The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
March 25, 1998
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of
1898-1923-1948-1973-1988
100 Years Ago (1898)
Stanley Sunbeams – The Village of Stanley received its city charter
on Sat. last and the first election of the city officers will take place
on the 5th of April. – On Thurs. C. H. Sheldon & Co. sold their drug
business here, together with the store building, lot, etc. to Frank
Medland and W. H. Bridgman.
Dr. McKittrick reports the arrival
of a new girl at the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Miller, near Eidsvold.
Mike Ramer is the first of the farmers in this vicinity to do any
seeding this season, sowing two acres of oats on Fri. 18th.
Village Treasurer Chr. Tiedemann reports the welcome information that he
collected the taxes on all real estate in the village with the exception
of $17.67. Every dollar of personal property tax was paid in full.
Mr. John Krupp of Boyd, and Mrs. Rosa Anderson, of this village, were
united in marriage at Eau Claire on Tues. of last week. Mrs.
Anderson is a daughter of townsman Chr. Tiedemann.
Letters were
received from the Copper River, Alaska, bound party on Tues. All
arrived safely at Orea, near the mouth of Copper River. The
letters are evidently the second one’s written since their arrival on
the Alaskan coast, and those first written will also probably arrive in
the course of a few days. The boys are all in good health and
hopeful, and were engaged in packing and hauling their supplies over ten
feet of snow and an enormous glacier to the Copper River, a distance of
eighteen miles from their landing place.
75 Years Ago
(1923)
Pozen – The Timothy Belt Cheese Factory paid out
for the last half of Feb. 52 cents for butter fat, 10 cents for hundred
lbs. whey cream.
A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Gregoire,
of the Town of Worden on St. Patrick’s Day.
A. H. Shoemaker, an
old civil war veteran and a former resident here, and of the Town of
Butler, died recently at his home in Augusta.
Mrs. Jno.
Melbinger, 86, died at her home in this village on Tues. morning.
At a meeting of the Thorp Volunteer Fire Co. held on Tues. evening of
last week the soliciting committee appointed at a previous meeting
reported having the sum of $458 subscribed for the purpose of defraying
the expenses of a celebration at Thorp on July 4th.
50
Years Ago (1948)
Lloyd Murphy of Lincoln, Neb. has
purchased the stock and fixtures of the local Ben Franklin Store.
Mr. Murphy is well acquainted with this business, being in this line of
work since 1929.
John Kile, 91, retired farmer, who has
been residing with his son, John Kile, Jr., in the Town of Butler,
passed away of old age infirmities on Mon. March 15, 1948.
A
baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Burke Piper, March 9th at Arlington,
Virginia.
White Birch – Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Frank had their baby
daughter baptized at St. Hedwig’s Church, Sun. They named her
Carolyn Sue.
Neiman’s Corner – Walter Filipowicz purchased the
forty-acre farm from Mrs. Albert Lopatkiewicz. – Wm. Przybylski sold his
farm to Jolesiewicz and son-in-law T. Seddon of Chicago, sometime ago,
purchased the Chas. Krause farm.
Last rites for Mrs. Steve
Maslanka, 60, were held at St. Hedwig’s Catholic Church on Mon. March
15th.
25 Years Ago (1973)
Roy Swanson,
65, passed away Mon. March 19, 1973.
An environment portrait
“Outdoor of Gail Lewandowski”, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Vernon
Lewandowski was recently honored at the Wis. State Photographers
Convention.
Mr. and Mrs. Roger Perzinski are the proud parents
of a baby boy. Their son, Kenneth Anthony, was born Sun. March 18
at St. Michael’s Hospital, Stevens Point. Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Elmer Sachs, Owen.
10 Years Ago (1988)
Matthew Calvin, son of Renee and Al Marek was born Wed. March 16th
at Victory Memorial Hospital, Stanley.
The Thorp American Legion
Hall was the setting for the double ring wedding ceremony between Lori
Ann Truckey and Michael John Kopacz, on Dec. 5, 1997.
Cheri
Bieno and Jeff Nourse exchanged marriage vows Sept. 5, 1987 at United
Methodist Church, Thorp.
Delia Shea, 92, Gilman, died Mon. March
14, 1988 at Gilman Nursing Home.
Aaron Matthew, son of Eugene
and Michelle Pogodzinski, was born at 3:20 p.m. on March 16, 1988. –
Kimerlee Rose, daughter of Randy and Pam Lewan, was born three minutes
later at 3:23 p.m.
The following students from Thorp area have
received the Chancellor’s Award for academic excellence during the first
semester at UW-Stout. They are: Joann Noah, Karen Zurakowski,
Holly Szymanski and Thad Hmielak.
Julie Kodl a sophomore in
Business at Marian College has made the first semester Dean’s List with
a grade point average of 3.80.
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