The Thorp Courier (Thorp, WI)
December 12, 1991
Transcribed by Dolores Mohr Kenyon
Old Items Taken from The Thorp Courier files of
1891-1916-1941-1966
100 Years Ago (1891)
A 10 lb. daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Parkhill, on
Friday last.
Remember the deer law has expired and wait for darkness before you enter
the clearing.
Mr. Herbert Brintnall and Miss Minnie Tiedeman were married at Eau
Claire on Thanksgiving Day, having gone there for that purpose the day
before.
The day is not very far distant when nearly every stick of timber will
bring fancy prices. Don’t turn up your nose at timber land if you
are after a farm. When starting in without capital you will often
find timber a very convenient resource, while under similar
circumstances on the prairie you would have to hamper yourself with
debt.
Herbert Adams and Maggie Frese were married at Boyd one day last week.
C. W. Christian, of Sterling, was married to a young lady of Merrillan,
whose name we have failed to learn, last week.
Married on Nov. 29th at the Douglas House in this village, by Geo.
Burke, J.P. Mr. Herman Grupp and Miss Apelonia Bernhard.
Hansen & Rassmussen have manufactured several ordinary farmers four-foot
sleight (sleigh) which should be inspected at their shop by anyone in
need of a good well put up bob.
Last summer when butter was worth10˘ per pound and plenty of it, most of
our farmers were in a rage because there was no market for it. Now
butter is worth more than double that amount and none to be had in large
quantities. Why wouldn’t it be a good idea for the farmer to put
up a small ice house this winter and hold his butter next summer until a
time when it is worth something?
75 Years Ago
Mrs. Eva Gorz, 75, passed away at the home of her nephew, Joe Starzyk,
in Chicago, on Friday, Dec. 5, 1941, of old age complications.
Taft – Olaf Hegli, 80, died in the Medford Hospital last Tuesday and was
buried from St. John’s Lutheran Church on Yellow River, Friday
afternoon.
Born: to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blazel, of Washington, D.C., a nine and
one-half pound baby boy on Sunday Dec. 7, 1941, Mrs. Blazel being
remembered here as Miss Katherine Bogumill.
Neiman’s Corner – A son, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Lukasiewicz
Friday morning. They will name him Kenneth.
Northeast of Gilman – Joe Haase is slowly recovering from an appendix
operation.
25 Years Ago
Attorney David P. Nitkowski, formerly of Oshkosh, has become associated
with Attorney Corwin C. Guell of Thorp.
Funeral services were held at St. Hedwig’s Chapel, Saturday, December
3rd for Stanley a. Neiman, 76, who passed away of a heart attack, at
Palatine, Ill., on Wednesday, November 30th.
Russell Boardman, Oconomowoc claimed Miss Clovis Ann Newell, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Newell, Lincoln, Nebraska, as his bride in a
ceremony read Saturday, Nov. 12, in Faith Lutheran Church, Lincoln,
Nebraska. Mr. Boardman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence
Boardman, Thorp.
Elias Lemanski, 62, of Milwaukee, (formerly of Lublin) passed away on
Thursday, November 17, 1966.
Funeral services for John Skwierczynski, 84, were held Saturday at St.
Mary’s Church in Stanley, with burial in St. Mary’s Junction cemetery.
Births -- at Stanley Hospital, November 29, 1966, son to Mr. and Mrs.
Raymond Pawlicki, route 2, Thorp.
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