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Born in Hanska, Minnesota on May 8, 1903, Wilferd Anderson moved with his family to the Hitterdal, Minnesota area in 1908. Anderson’s father, H.V. Anderson, managed a grain elevator at Hitterdal until 1915 when he bought a farm in nearby Highland Grove. Wilferd Anderson worked on his father’s farm until 1931, when he married Violet Heigg and rented his own farm in Highland Grove. Subsequently buying the land, Anderson managed this farm until his retirement, raising grain and potatoes, and owning a small dairy herd. The Andersons were also active in Highland Grove community activities. Wilferd died in 1985.
The Moorhead Women’s Christian Temperance Union was organized in 1948. The WCTU grew from five women in 1948 to a membership of thirty-seven in 1960. The Moorhead WCTU is affiliated with the National WCTU and the National organization is part of the World Union which has a membership of seventy-seven countries.
The Western Minnesota Steam Thresher’s Reunion (WMSTR) was officially organized in 1954. But well before that year, individuals in the Rollag area were acting to preserve and restore old steam-powered farming equipment. N.B. Nelson, one of the most active of these individuals, proposed in 1940, that steam threshers be used one day each year so that “Old timers” could “see a steam engine work again.”
This chapter of the WCTU was organized in 1891, and was named the Scandinavian WCTU. The chapter contained members from both Fargo, North Dakota, and Moorhead, Minnesota. The chapter pursued the WCTU goals of educating the public on the dangers of alcohol and drugs.
The Roseau [Minnesota] Women’s Christian Temperance union was organized in 1945. Each union has the following departments: Christian Outreach, Education, Home Protection, Legislative Citizenship, Public Relations, and Social Service. The objective of the WCTU is “for the education of public sentiment towards total abstinence from the use of all alcoholic beverages and the abolition of the traffic in such liquors.”
The Lumber operation at Wolverton, Minnesota was originally known as the Gull River Lumber Company. Sometime about 1900, it became a branch yard of the White Lumber Company which was established in Fargo, North Dakota in 1873.
The Amphion Chorus of Fargo-Moorhead [North Dakota-Minnesota] was organized in the early 1930s by Daniel Preston, who also directed the chorus until 1948. The one hundred member male chorus was heralded as the “Men of the West on Wings of Song.” The first out-of-state performance by the Amphion Chorus was as the North Dakota Representative to the Worlds Fair in Chicago in 1933.
The Bakers – Center for Women [Fargo, North Dakota] was founded in November 1976 to provide a place for women to meet, support groups, educational projects, and referral services. The Center for Women’s most notable achievement was the founding of an emergency shelter for battered women in 1979.
The Swedish Culture Heritage Society of the Red River Valley [Minnesota/North Dakota] was founded September 20, 1976. The purpose of the Society is to enrich the members’ lives with the Swedish culture, to spread awareness of Swedish culture in the community, and to contribute tangibility to Swedish cultural presence in the community.
The Woodman Lodge, which was located in Hitterdal, Minnesota, was part of a larger organization, The Modern Woodmen of America of Rockford, Illinois. The Lodge was started on May 20, 1920 and was known as Camp 1542. Membership was open to anyone having at least 7/8th’s white blood, was over 16 years of age and was not employed in a dangerous occupation (smoke stack painter, railroad switch breaker, mine worker, etc.).