The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
June 27, 2007
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1907-1932-1957-1982-1997

100 Years Ago (1907)

Peter Heiser has purchased a U. S. Long distance runabout, the first automobile owned here.  The machine arrived yesterday.

Ed Karlen is building a new farm residence, the main part being 16 x 28 and wing 12 x 22 in size.  Geo. Schmidt is doing the carpenter work.

John Smart sold his forty acre farm in the Town of Thorp to his son-in-law Warren Baker.

75 Years Ago (1932)

Abbotsford and Boyd are the only nearby villages which are going to celebrate July 4th.

Andrew Jasinski, of Reseburg, 88 years old, took his first airplane ride in one of the planes present here on Market Day.

The farm house, chicken coop and milk house of Stanley Lacewicz, located one mile north and one mile east of Thorp, was destroyed by fire about 11:30 Sunday morning.  It caught fire from a defective chimney.

Herman F. Doege, 67, a resident of this community since 1883, passed away on June 22, 1932 after a lingering illness.

50 Years Ago (1957)

Death of a Greenwood area youth in a traffic accident early Sunday morning raised Clark County’s highway death toll for 1957 to four.  The victim was Herbert E. Fabian, 20 who was a passenger in a car, which crashed against a concrete bridge abutment on County Highway H.

History was made Friday in the National Guard at Camp McCoy with the Thorp Courier setting in exclusively.  Only two civilian witnesses, Robert Elkins, Editor and Malin Teclaw were on hand as members of the National Guard took part in an Army Court Martial proceeding for the first time in history.

25 Years Ago (1982)

In the year from July 1, 1981 to June 30, 1982 construction within the community of Thorp did more than plummet, it nearly expired.

A 1963 graduate of Thorp High School has been appointed General Manager of the American National Insurance Agency in Davenport, Iowa.  Ed Michur joined the company as a representative in 1968 and was appointed District Manager in 1978.

10 Years Ago (1997)

Julie Hull and Jenny Jaskot, freshmen this fall at Thorp High School will be winging their way to Europe this week for nearly a month.  The pair is taking part in the student goodwill ambassador program People to People.

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