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The Women’s Athletic Club of Fargo-Moorhead [North Dakota-Minnesota] was organized in 1927 as a result of a separation of athletics from the Women’s Fine Arts Club. The purpose of this organization is the promotion of indoor and outdoor athletics for women. All women 18 years of age and over are eligible for membership. The organization disbanded in 1996.
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 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.
The Unitarian Church of Underwood, Otter Tail County, Minnesota, was founded in 1889 by Kristofer Janson, a Norwegian author and reformer, who immigrated to the United States in 1881. Mr. Janson became a Unitarian missionary to the Scandinavians in the Midwest. He also established Unitarian congregations in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hanska, all in Minnesota, and also in Hudson, Wisconsin.
This collection on one reel of microfilm includes the records of one Congregational and two Evangelical and Reformed Churches in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. The records consist mainly of ministerial acts and membership records as well as some meeting minutes.