for the livelihood of many seemed to depend on their existence many mothers, including Finnish ones, who helped keep their families by doing washing and ironing, protested to the League asking what was to become of them if they did not get thy business of those girls, who paid well; a drug store owner appeared before the League to state that these girls were his best customer and that he would be bankrupt if they were driven out of town the livery stable owners protested they would be ruined if they lost their only well-paying clients; and the stream of protests continued from seamstresses, textile shops, even grocers; finally ever the city manager came, armed with statistics, to prove that the League was threatening the whole community with bankruptcy Parallel with all this were such things as the attempted murder of Johan Pakka, a Finnish policeman on the Eveleth force.

The campaign went on, and although it took a little more than a year before, there were results. the results gradually did become apparent

The gambling den and the houses of it repute were closed down, the saloon had to obey strict control measures, and morality began to improve. The big city newspapers began to publish articles oc casionally about the League's program and the success of it in Eveleth served as an example for civic leagues in many other communities Among the ways in which a reformed Eveleth showed its gratitude was by decorating the streets of the city with flags when the temperance society was host to the annual convention of the Brotherhood in 1936

After the battle, the Valon Lähde sold its building to the church in 1919, reserving the right to use the building if and when required. The coming of Prohibition, however, brought all activity to a standstill for three years. It was not until 1922 that there were signs of life again, and in the reactivated society

The board of directors of the Minnesota District considering an elders' home at a meeting at the parsonage in Eveleth on Sept. 12, 1929. In front: Mrs. W. Korpela and pastors A. 0. Kuusisto, M. E. Merijärvi and H. Sarvela. In back: Frank Mattson, Rev. F. W. Kaskinen and Dr. W. Luttio.

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