The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1928-07-19

WIN diiu tHeli iHleIesls 0AleuuS De
yond the membership of the order anc
beyond the Finnish nationality and ex.
end helping hand wherever opportu-
nifty offers.
Among the grand lodge officers OF
the Knights of Kaleva who are here
for the convention are John Kujala
grand president, Negaunee, Mich;
Toivo Aartila, grand historian, Neg
aunee, Mich; D. NJ. Johnson, grand
treasurer, Cloquet, FIinn.; August Rim
iala, grand trusted lronwood, Mich,
md ]. A. Harpet, Grand trustee,
Duluth, MINI.
! Among the grand lodge officers of
the Ladies of Kaleva who will attend
the convention are Mrs. Alma Kukka,
grand president, Hancock, Mich; Mrs.
Tyne Sjblom, grand secretary, Brook
lyn, n. Y; Mrs. Selma Ala, grand
treasurer, Virginia, Mimi, and Signe
Luomala, financial secretary, and
Anna Lahti, vice president.
A varied program for the enter
tainment of the visitors has been care
fully planned and worked out by COM
mittees of the two local lodges. There
will be big dance at the Kaleva
pavilion, eight miles north of the city,
on Saturday evening, July Il, music
being furnished by the Montana
Melodians, to which the general pub
lie is invited. On Sunday morning,
July %, there will be parade of the
local lodge members and delegates and
visiting members, headed by the Red
Lodge band, and Immediately after
the parade the picnic will start at the
Kaleva picnic grounds, eight miles
north of Red Lodge. Included in the
program is an address by United
States Senator B. K. Wheeler. Light
lunches and refreshments will be
served at the picnic grounds, to all of
which the public in invited. On Sun
day evening, there will be a musical
concert at the Workers hall by the
noted Finnish soprano, Eli Suokas-
Stenback, who will sing both in Fin
nish and English, and it is expected
that the spacious hall will be filled to
capacity for the occasion. On
Wednesday afternoon, July %, the
visitors and delegates will be taken
on an auto trip to Camp Sonia and
the Beartooths, and ON Saturday, the
28th, automobile trips will be made
into the surrounding farm country,
where the delegates and visitors from
out of the city will get glimpse of
the splendid progress being made by
those members of the sturdy Finnish
race, who have engaged in agricultural
pursuits in this county, with such
marked success. On Sunday, July 20,
there will be fish fry for the dele
gates at the Kaleva picnic grounds.
While during the week both orders
will have several meetings, in their
halls, for the transaction of the grand
loges business of the orders, to which,
of course, the public will not be adj
mitted.
1t is notable that both local orders
of the Knights of Kaleva and Ladies
of Kaleva are the oldest of that order
in the United States and it was fit
ting that this city should be selected
as the grand lodge convention city for
this year. Delegates and visitors of
both orders, from out of the city will
receive a hearty welcome, not only
from people of their own nationality, |
but by the people generally, all of
whom have been honored by having
The grand lodges of those two splendid
orders hold their annual convention
here.
The Finnish people have rendered
good account of themselves, both in
his country and in Canada, where its
members are to be found not only in
he professions and trades, but in
very other walk of life. They are
aw abiding, sturdy, Industrious peo-
Die, whose patriotism and zeal for
education and progress has stamped
hem among the highest class of our
American citizenship.
The officers of the local lodge of
he Knights of Kaleva are: J. w.
'oki, president; William Abraham
on, secretary; Victor Aho, treasurer.
The officers Of the local lodge Of
he Ladies Of Kaleva are: Mrs. Minnie
Iannula, president; Mrs. Lydia Her
omen, secretary; Mrs. Julia M. Hon
ala, treasurer.