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The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
April 8, 1998
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon

Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of 1898-1923-1948-1973-1988

100 Years Ago (1898)

W. L. Gibbs of Chippewa Falls has rented Geo. Clark’s farm west of the village and took possession on April 1st.
 
Miss Maggie Voelker and Henry Howard, who are attending the Stevens Point Normal, are enjoying a week’s vacation with relatives here.
 
H. E. Howard has purchased the James building and lot, located near the Commercial House, of M. Wiltgen, and will remove his barber shop and photograph gallery to the new location this week.
 
Miss Zora Covert began teaching the school in the Smart District west of Eidsvold on Mon.  Ollie McKee resumed the same line of work in the Colby District, Town of Reseburg; Everard Sterling, The Roger Creek School west of Eidsvold.
 
75 Years Ago (1923)
 
Wild Cherry – A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. George Burzynski on Sun. April 1st.
 
A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Sharon, March 25th.  Mrs. Henning will be remembered here as Julia Timon.
 
Anton Borysiewicz and Ed. Bogumill, who are attending school at Madison, are spending a few days at their respective home here.
 
Andrew Bogumill recently sold his large farm northeast of the village to his sons, John G., William and Peter Bogumill and has moved to this village having purchased a small building west of the Big Four Canning Co’s plant.
 
The large modern residence owned and occupied by village clerk Herman Holzhausen was destroyed by fire on Fri. forenoon last.
 
Peter Osowski, 31, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Osowski of the Town of Withee, died at the Riverside Sanitarium near Stevens Point on Fri. March 30, 1923.
 
50 Years Ago (1948)
 
Julius J. Rossman, 62, Route 1, Gilman, was fatally injured last Wed. when a reconverted jeep, being used as a tractor, crushed him against the wall of his garage.
 
Mrs. Henry M. Leibole, 90, passed away at St. Joseph’s Hospital at Chippewa Falls on Sat. last of old age infirmities.
 
Word was received here of the death of Walter Knapik, a former Thorp farmer and well known here as a painter, passed away at his home in Chicago on March 16th.
 
A seven pound, one ounce son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Francis Culbert, of Eau Claire at the Sacred Heart Hospital on Fri. March 26th.  Mrs. Culbert is remembered here as Marion Micke, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Anton Micke of Thorp.
 
25 Years Ago (1973)
 
Louis M. Mroz passed away at the Hinsdale Hospital, Hinsdale, Ill., after a long and lingering illness.
 
Bernard Louis Slota, 78, resident of Gilman passed away suddenly on Fri. March 30th, at his home in Gilman of an apparent heart attack, while burning grass by his house.
 
Jill Anderson, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hanford Anderson, and Gary Benzschawel, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Benzschawel, have been chosen as Thorp High School’s Badger Girl and Badger Boy for 1973.
 
Word was received here of the death on March 7, 1973 of Joseph Kotecki of Chicago, a former resident of Thorp.
 
South Worden – Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Miler are the proud parents of a boy, David Joseph, born March 27th.
 
10 Years Ago (1988)
 
Valeria Lisiecki, 85, Lublin, died Mon. April 4, 1988 at Victory Memorial Nursing Home, Stanley.
 
A son, Patrick William, was born Thurs. March 31, 1988 to William and Sue Hogan Jr. of Elk Grove, IL. Sue Hogan is the daughter of John and Theresa Dranginis of Mount Prospect, IL.
 
The baptism of the son of Henry and Elizabeth Klopotowski of Greenwood, Ronald Martin was Sun., April 3, 1988 at St. Bernard-St. Hedwig Church.
 
Anthony Hackbarth, son of James and Brenda Hackbarth of Thorp, has been accepted for enrollment for the fall semester at Indiana Institute of Technology in Fort Wayne.  Anthony will graduate from Thorp High School this spring.
 
Frank and Julia Grendys celebrated their 50th Wedding Anniversary on March 19, 1988.
 
Margaret Richdorf, 75, Stanley, died Tues. March 29, 1988 at Victory Memorial Nursing Home.
 
Jane Tometczak and Mark Morrison were united in marriage March 5, 1988 at St. John’s Lutheran Church, Pittsville.

 

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