Finhelt Hotel

Fire burnout 1898 West of Creek

1906 Town of Hansen Sawmill

1. W. H. Bean
2. D. Woodruff
3.  
4. Lippe
5. Kiep
6.  
7. Herman Zager
8. Oscar Bean
9. F. Stake
10. Behling
11. Juneo
12. Al Mask

1903

Herman Dassow’s Store, Post Office, Goldsworthy’s, Summers, Lutheran Church, Woodruff's, Schecks’

Herb Bean’s Store

In July 1898, Carsten Otto started a creamery.  He sold it 2-3 years later to Ferdinand and Theodore Albert of Maryville.  The company was known as the F. Albert Dairy Company and operated until it was destroyed by fire, seven years later.

Vesper Christian Reformed Church was organized in 1898.  It was located in a frame building 2 ½ miles northeast of the village.    Most of the congregation was Dutch.  They built a new building in 1905 which they enlarged in 1913.  Early pastors were:  Reverend Thomas DeLang, Rev. Arthur Guikema, Rev. Evert Van Korlaar, Rev. Dirk Wiednaar, Rev. John Van Den Hoek.

On 9/11/1916, the Dutch Reformed Church was organized.  It was later named the Faith Reformed Church.  In 1948, the church moved to Wisconsin Rapids and a new building was dedicated in September. 

Left:  Ellsworth? Trickey
Right:  Pearl Stone Brown
1909

Owen Oliver and George E. Martin established the Vesper State Bank in 1911. It was capitalized at $10,000 with a surplus of $2,500. The president was: George E. Martin, v-president: Owen Oliver, cashier: Burton Jones