A scanned local-history page naming Palmer Stadum, the Baker Technical Club, Baker Day demonstrations, and Baker Electric Cooperative. The extracted text directly supports the archive’s rural electrification storyline.
Among those meeting in the workshop were Palmer Stadum, Gaylord Landis, Harold Blegen, William Sosalla, and Lloyd Stadig, all interested in mechanics and electronics.
The source says Palmer made the electronic brain for an electrically controlled car, while Lloyd Stadig was largely responsible for the body and mechanical parts.
Key rural electrification passage:
The same page also describes Baker Day, including parades, barbecue or bean-hole beans, carnival events, races, a baseball game, speakers, performances, and dances.
The lower half of the page begins a related local-history section on the Soo Line and the railroad growth that shaped Baker.
The extracted text says Palmer's favorite topic was bringing electricity to people in the area, and that the group organized into the Baker Technical Club.
The same passage credits Palmer's efforts as central to organizing and building Baker Electric Cooperative, described in the source as North Dakota's first rural electric cooperative.
Source: Palmer Stadum Electrification PDF, page 1.