Auxiliary activities included a gymnastics team, a band and a chorus. Yrjö Salmi and Charles Tolvanen directed the men's athletics, while Tyyne Puntti directed the women. The men's team was far enough advanced to take part in the local Fourth of July festivities in 1905, but when they tried to join the parade down Lake Street, dressed in their track uniforms, the police would not allow them to march "so naked"; they had to run back to put on more clothes, rush back to the parade, then undress again in front of City Hall to put on their gymnastics show to an enthusiastic audience. As for the women, since their participation on a significant scale was rather rare in those early years, the achievement of the Muisto (and subsequently Virkistys) women deserve mention, for they performed in early midsummer festivals with gymnastics and rhythmic exercises and folk dances.

Musical activities were initially under the direction of Helmer Hermanson, and he was succeeded as band director by Nick Miettunen, then Charles Kleimola, Alex Koivunen and Victor Taipale. The first director of the chorus - up to 1908 - was Ivar Ahonen. Later, there was a separate youth chorus, and that, as well as the dramatics group, was under the direction of E. Ahonen.

The history of the first temperance society ended in a `revolt from within.' As in certain other communities, socialism had begun to spread among some of the members, and in one meeting they simply voted the Muisto property to be transformed into a workers' society and the hall to be renamed the Kansan Koti, the Peoples' Home. However, before turning to a discussion of the workers' society in Chisholm, it must be stated that Muisto was not the only temperance society in town. After the fire there was a certain apparent lack of interest, but in 1910 interest did begin to revive, and in the Virkistys temperance society there was begun a new chorus and a new dramatics group. The first musical director was John G. Hulme. In Minnesota History (December 1941) mention is made of the end of Virkistys in that year, together with a statement that it had been previously inactive from 1919 to 1930. Prohibition was quite obviously the cause for the hiatus, but even during that period there had been four nominal members: Mr. and Mrs. Ahonen and Mr. and Mrs. Vasenius.

The Swedish-speaking Finns of Chisholm also had their own temperance society, Blomman, started in 1903, although the 10 men who constituted the society at that time found it difficult to keep on going. Actually, when Jacob Nyström and Herman Johnson served as chairmen, the curious fact was that Finnish was the language used in meetings, with only important points being

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