vice-chairman; John Virkkala, secretary; Jonas Finnilä, treasurer. The members included five persons who had already held membership cards from temperance societies in other communities, particularly Mt. Iron. They wanted to name the new society the "Star of the Wilderness" but gave it up since there were already two societies so named; they settled on Tapio. Meetings were held initially once a week at the town hall, but that same year plans were made to build a hall of their own, and land was purchased at the corner of Cedar Street and Second Avenue.

The first and most important of Tapio's auxiliary activities was a band, organized in 1896 by Alex Mattson, but it was preceded locally by another and even more important band whose history must be briefly mentioned here. The Independent Finnish Band was discussed in the spring of 1895 by interested Finnish miners and lumberjacks, and they even elected a slate of officers John Haapasaari as chairman, Gust Järvi as secretary and John K. Mäki as treasurer. Given encouragement by the Lake Superior Mining Company, the group gratefully called itself the Lake Superior Cornet Band. Instruments were purchased as funds permitted, and occasional appearances were made, at Tapio program evenings, for example. At this stage there was still no musical director, and

band members took turns with the baton. A couple of years later they were able t o buy splendid uniforms to wear in their appearances, b u t when interest and membership threatened to wane, it was time to seek a salaried music director: Victor Taipale, who moved to Hibbing in 1901, received the appointment.

At this stage also,

the band changed its name. Having received encouragement but no financial support from the mining company, but having been given encouragement and the free use of Tapio premises for rehearsals, the band named itself the Temperance Association

"Kaiku" band in 1913. Names remembered: Third
from left in front row is Edward Gröndahl, director,
fourth is John Rajanen. Fifth in the middle row is
Toivo Murto, drummer is Wilho Rahko. Second
in back row is Emil Aho.

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