thus winning its moral victory the merger came about. The new society formed from the two old ones was given the name Sovinto (Concord).

The first elected officers of Sovinto were Kalle Sandberg, chairman, Frank Koski, vice-chairman, Anna Beck, secretary, and August Anderson, treasurer. The Tapio hall was sold, and the money almost covered the mortgage due on the Seeker of Truth hall, where the new society began its career. During World War II this hall was sold to the mining corporation, and a new hall on East Howard Street in South Hibbing was bought. This building had commercial rental units on the ground floor, with a spacious hall and other facilities above. In 1956 its membership, now dwindled to 20, still kept the building in its possession, but by this time the summer camp area on Swan Lake belonging to the society had been sold off as unnecessary.

Previously started auxiliary activities were kept up under Sovinto auspices. Ivar Ahonen served as teacher in the summer school for years and also directed the chorus. Victor Taipale and Hemming Hautala directed the band, but interest in this died out before the beginning of World War II. However, in 1934 a new activity came into existence, the Young Peoples Temperance Club, sponsored by Elli Sandberg. This group elected its own officers, naming Calvert Sandberg chairman, Veikko Lavander vice-chairman, Effie Anderson secretary, and Catherine Sandberg treasurer. In 1954 the officers of the parent, Sovinto society were H. Kojola, chairman; Katri Ruuhela, vice-chairman; Elli Sandberg, secretary, and Charles Sandberg, treasurer.

Parallel with these three Finnish temperance societies in Hibbing there was also a fourth, a Swedish Finnish society, the Söner av Wasa chapter of the Runeberg Orden, organized in 1903. At the time of founding there were 14 members, in 1917 there were 35, and at one time the peak rose to 57. The chapter built its own quarters in 1905.

Kaleva Activity : The course of the Kaleva Order in Hibbing was a difficult one : as a mining community it was natural that the activities of the Finns would be strongly concentrated within the temperance and workers' movements; furthermore, there was no strong Kaleva center nearby which could have given the local Kaleva work impetus or moral support. Nevertheless, a lodge of Kaleva Knights was actually established in Hibbing in 1905, by John Huhtala, Charles Latvala, Erland Rustari, and Charles Tolvanen, and in 1954 that lodge still had 40 members, but since the lodge itself had been transferred to Chisholm (in 1914) and from

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