of Temperance Societies as Chapter 90, the hall was built without delay and was ready for use in October. At that time a band was started, and it was allowed free use of the hall, provided the musicians became members of the temperance society. In January 1896 the hall was used, free of charge, by a group of Finns who met to start a congregation, and in February a chorus under the direction of John Haukko began to use the premises. Then a dramatics group was started, as well as a debating group. Then, in the midst of this flurry of activity, dissension developed within the society over the issue of the propriety of dancing. To decide the issue, the society voted with an overwhelming majority not to rent the hall out to anyone but to reserve it exclusively for the society's own purposes, but in the next meeting the very opposite was decided, and in a related question, a majority voted against relinquishing membership in the Brotherhood. Nevertheless, the latter issue remained a burning one, and in the autumn the society did resign from the Brotherhood, but at the same time the society itself seemed to have received a mortal blow.

In July 1897 there was a new founding meeting, at which Erick Nieminen presided, and for which Matti Gomsi acted as secretary, and the result was the beginning of the temperance society afresh, rejoining the Brotherhood, and finding new quarters for the society. It required legal action to settle this issue, but the final result came when the Fayal Mining Company sold the society a plot of land for $1.00. The temperance society Valon Lähde (Source of Light) was able to dedicate its new hall in December 1905.

Meanwhile, another temperance society, the Urania, was begun in the spring of 1902, and this society promptly became affiliated with the Eastern Finnish Temperance League. Here, too, the younger members wanted to dance, and the society's members condoned it, and all went well as long as the League knew nothing about it. However, the League did hear about it when one member, August Helenius, wrote the League to inform them of it. According to the account printed in the Päivälehti (much later, in September 1915) when word of this got back to the Urania, Helenius was thrown out of the building bodily, and the letter of membership was returned to the League, together with some scathing doggerel verses. After- that the Urania went on its way independently for about six months, when it came to terms with the League and joined it once more. The Urania built itself a hall on Eveleth's main street, and the Finnish speaking tem

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