From Waupaca County Histories, Waupaca County Edited by John M. Ware 1917
Transcribed and submitted to the Waupaca County Website
by Paula Vaughan January 2002

THE VILLAGE INCORPORATED
The Village of Weyauwega was incorporated by an act of the Wis-consin Legislature in 1856. Louis Bostedo. was a trustee from the First
Ward and president of the board, and Debius Hutchinson was trustee from the Second Ward.

WEYAUWEGA OF THE PRESENT
The village has had a steady growth since the coming of the Wiscon-sin Central Railroad to its doors in the fall of 1871. It is now a pleasant
and well ordered community of about 1,200 people, located on the Soo Railroad, and stretching from the waterpower, over the mill and the
electric light plant, a gradual rise of ground toward the south. Its business streets have a number of stores carrying stocks of goods to meet
every want of the villagers, its resident thoroughfares are lined with  pretty homes, and a memorial gem greets the visitor in the monument
erected to the soldiers of 1861-65, most of whom have passed on to the reward of their patriotism.

Weyauwega has a public library, an opera house, a good high school, half a dozen churches, and sufficient societies for every want and longing;
two solid banks, a flour mill- such industries as the Baldwin Creamery, the Farmers Creamery and Supply Company, the Phillips Dental Burr
Company, and an opera house seating 1,000 people, that surpasses anything of the kind in the county, to say nothing of the Allen Lumber
Company; a wide awake newspaper, and an Advancement Association, both of which institutions really advance the town.

The first good schoolhouse was built in 1858, which was doubled in size about 1870, and this was replaced by a brick one in 1902 at a cost of
$20,000. The school includes the usual eight grades and the high school with a total enrollment of 257 pupils. Nine teachers are employed. The
principal is E. N. Calef. The school property is now valued at $30,000.

AMUSEMENT AND INSTRUCTION
The people of Weyauwega, are social, and fond of amusement, and to satisfy their healthful cravings in that regard they have two houses-the
old Whitney Opera House and the Gerold Opera House built by George Gerold in 1915 at a cost of over $15,000.

The Weyauwega Public Library, which now has nearly 1,500 books on its shelves, was opened in October, 1913. It is managed by a board of
five, comprising a member of the village board of trustees, the high school principal, and three private citizens. C. F. Crane has been president
since the library was formed and Miss Eunice Fenelon, librarian. The library is contained in the second story of the new Village Hall and is
well lighted. It is open to the public three afternoons and one evening each week.

THE VILLAGE HALL
In 1914 the village erected a village hall at a cost of over $10,000. The first floor front is occupied by the fire apparatus of the village
which comprises an excellent motor power engine, capable of throwing three streams over the highest buildings in town. In the rear is the
village lockup, while the upper floors contain the public library in front, and a council room and auditorium in the rear.

BANKS
The First National Bank was organized in 1905 in a building espe-cially erected for the transaction of its business. R. H. Edwards and E.
L. Kosanke served as presidents; H. Koehler, as vice president, and E. M. Proctor, R. W. Johnson and A. L. Kosanke as cashiers. The capital is
$25,000, surplus and undivided profits (fall of 1916) $4,600, and deposits about $225,000.

The Farmers and Merchants Bank opened for business in April, 1910, and succeeded to the business of the Weed & Gumaer Company. Its
capital is $30,000. E. H. Jones has been president and T. F. Wilson cashier since it was organized. Its vice presidents have been W. W.
Crane, Ben Wiener and L. D. Post. The average deposits of the bank are $230,000. It has undivided profits of $7,000. It occupies the Bank
Building erected by the Weed and Gumaer Company in 1903.

THE WEYAUWEGA ADVANCEMENT ASSOCIATION
It is always considered good literary form to close with some strong and agreeable feature and the Weyauwega Advancement Association
concluded this chapter. It was organized in June, 1915, with Dr. E. H. Jones as president; A. J. Rieck, editor of the Chronicle, secretary, and
H. W. Glocke, treasurer. Its membership of over 100 includes the best and most enterprising men of the community. The association encourages
everything which can legitimately attract people and business to Weyauwega. It has always done much in the encouragement of the
good roads movement and has stood behind the actual construction of several miles of fine roads tributary to the village.

THE WAUPACA COUNTY FAIR
And in this connection we want to say a word about the Waupaca County Agricultural Association whose fair grounds are at Weyauwega
and which holds a four days' fair each year. The association was organized nearly fifty years ago and for several years barely existed. Then a
change of secretaries was made, and new life enthused into the project and for the past twenty years it has been one of the leading county fairs
in the state. It has some very fine grounds and a half mile track with a record of 2.17. The fair of 1916 was one of the most successful in its
history and the pay roll of the association for premiums and expenses was over $10,000.