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Title: Ben Purdum Conducting Church Service for Boy Scouts
Description: Boy Scout troops from Grinnell, Guernsey, Brooklyn, and Montezuma at the Boy Scout camporee west of Montezuma in 1943. Ben Purdum conducted the church service when the minister who was to have held the service failed to arrive in time. Boy Scout Troop 330 put on a play, The Good Samaritan, with Scoutmaster Purdum as narrator.
Date Created: 1943
PID: grinnell:27245

Title: Boy Scout Troop No. 330 Flag
Description: Ben Purdum (left) and Keith Steffey display a Boy Scouts of America Troop No. 330 flag. The flag reads: Troop 330; Montezuma Lion's Club; Montezuma, Iowa; Tall Corn Area.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:27235

Title: Boy Scouts Receiving Second Degree Scout Awards
Description: Members of Boy Scout Troop No. 330, Montezuma, Iowa, receive Second Degree Scout awards. Front row, left to right: Ben Purdum (scoutmaster), James Bear, Jerry Tarvin, Bill Tarvin, Jerry Davis, Keith Walsh. Back row, left to right: Frank Brownell, Terry Miller.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:27236

Title: Church of Christ Bible School
Description: Teachers and students of the Church of Christ Bible School in Montezuma, Iowa, July 1952. Front row, left to right: Ethel McKee, Kenny Peterson, Donna Thomasen, Kay Anderson, Gloria Vandeventer, Delores Purdum, Linda Vandeventer, Steve Rabenold, JoEllen Rabenold, Judy Baird, Susan Wheeler, Bill Taylor. Second row, left to right: Ronnie Hart, Susan VanDuyn, Mike Thurber, Susan Hicks, Susan VanCleave, Marilyn McFarlin, Barbara Hill, Judy Kirstein, Linda Gass, Sharon Hicks. Row three, left to right: Rev. Hart, Ronnie Richman, Linda Hicks, Leon Rowell, Linda Sams, unidentified, Sharon Bryan, Duane VanCleave, Melody Pitka, Ann Byers, Kristin Hill, Miriam Ammann, Kristin Johnson, Linda Taylor, Donald Hicks, Laure Arvidson, Dennis Hamilton, Marvin Ehret, Vincent Johnson, Jack Taylor, Chuck Simpson, Marion Johnson. Row four, left to right: unknown, Richard Hicks, Richard Miller, Richard Snook, Kenny Gray, Dennis VanCleave, Howard McKee, Larry Richman, Charles Taylor, Bobby Tarvin, Jon Swanson, Karen Hubbard, Lana Sharer, Bob Johannes, Ann Bowers, Bob Thompson, Leslie Hicks, Marilyn Pugh, Billy Pitka. Row five, left to right: Helen Peterson, Mrs. Dwight Purdum, Mrs. Raymond Ehret, Wilma Sharer, Diane Fisher, Ceatta Pitka, Kristine Swanson, Nancy Gray, Jane Busby, Harriet Hicks, Shirley VanCleave, Shirley Arvidson, Phyllis Hicks. Row six, left to right: Shirley Arendt, Alice Vanderwal, Mrs. Basil Hicks, Mrs. Roy Peterson, Zelda Heitman, Sharon Richman, Mrs. Gus Peterson, Mrs. Maude Dieterich, Mrs. Don Hart, Mrs. Maude Kercheval, Mrs. Harold Hunter, Mrs. Bob Brownell, Lynn Brownell.
Date Created: 1952
PID: grinnell:27244

Title: First M.E. Church, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the First Methodist Episcopal Church, Montezuma, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6244

Title: G.A.R. and Masonic Hall, Montezuma, Ia., G.A.R. and Masonic Hall, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the G.A.R. (Grand Army of the Republic) and Masonic Hall in Montezuma, Iowa. Postcard is postmarked March 5, 1909, in Montezuma, Iowa, and is addressed to Mrs. Ellis Winters, Sherwood, Oregon. Card is signed by Edna Thorn.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:12506

Title: M.E. Church, Montezuma, Ia., M.E. Church, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Montezuma, Iowa. Built in 1905, the church was destroyed by a fire on Sunday, April, 30, 1939. A new church was built on the same site, 200 South 4th Street.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12515

Title: Reverend and Mrs. Horn and Son
Description: Reverend W. P. and Mrs. Horn and son pose in the snow. Reverend Horn was a pastor at a church in Montezuma, Iowa, in the late 1920s.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:20694

Title: Scout Trophy Presented to Ben Purdum
Description: Boy Scout Dale Cutshall presents a Scout trophy to Scout Master Ben Purdum of Boy Scout Troop No.330 of Montezuma, Iowa. Clark Tarvin is in the background.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:27234