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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 Zonta Club of Fargo-Moorhead [North Dakota-Minnesota] was formed in 1951. Zonta is a service organization of executive women in business and the professions. Typical local service projects involve the elderly and the handicapped. Zonta is committed to the advancement of women.
This collection contains five booklets which were compiled through the Minnesota W.P.A. Writers Project. Three booklets relate to county histories, one contains information about the Judicial Districts of Minnesota, and one booklet is an inventory of World War I emergency activities in Minnesota.
Minnesota State University Moorhead Northwest Minnesota Historical Center special exhibits like Nowhere to Turn: Plight of German Jews in Nazi Germany.
The Northwest Minnesota Historical Center Collection Guide consists of brief descriptions of each manuscript collection at the Center.
Mr. Eagan was born on December 4, 1943 in Rutland, Vermont. He grew up there in a staunchly Democrat and unionist household, although the community was firmly Republican in political outlook. Eagan attended Castleton Public School and Mt. St. Joseph’s Academy in Rutland.
The West Central Regional Development Commission [WCRDC] was established in 1973 to assist local governments in planning for common needs, cooperating for mutual benefits, and coordinating programs for sound area-wide development. The commission includes the Minnesota counties of Becker, Clay, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail, Pope, Sterns, Traverse, and Wilkin.
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 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.”
The village of Hitterdal, Minnesota, is located on the eastern end of Clay County. It was founded in 1884 and incorporated as a township in 1918.