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Ben Purdum Conducting Church Service for Boy Scouts
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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.
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Date Created
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1943
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PID
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grinnell:27245
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Boy Scout Troop No. 330 Flag
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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.
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Date Created
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1950
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PID
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grinnell:27235
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Boy Scouts Receiving Second Degree Scout Awards
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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.
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Date Created
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1950
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PID
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grinnell:27236
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Church of Christ Bible School
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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.
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Date Created
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1952
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PID
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grinnell:27244
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Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
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Postcard photo of three Grand Army of the Republic members from Brooklyn, Iowa, relaxing on the grounds of the Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa, possibly at some sort of celebration. Left to right: Joe Karr, who drove the veterans to Montezuma; Hiram Frease, standing and holding the flag; Frank Dayton and Capt. George Phillips, both seated. Joe Karr was a dry goods merchant in Brooklyn, Iowa. The benches in front of the Karr store were favored places for Civil War veterans to sit and talk. Joe Karr, born in 1865, was not a Civil War veteran himself, although he may have been a GAR member through a relative.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:11767
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G.A.R. and Masonic Hall, Montezuma, Ia., G.A.R. and Masonic Hall, Montezuma, Iowa
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1909
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PID
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grinnell:12506
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M.E. Church, Montezuma, Ia., M.E. Church, Montezuma, Iowa
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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.
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Date Created
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1930
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PID
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grinnell:12515
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Montezuma Boy Scout Troop No. 330
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Montezuma Boy Scout Troop No. 330 poses with Scoutmaster Ben Purdum in 1953. Front row, left to right: Bob Jordan, Larry Crider, Gary McKinley, Denny Van Tommee, Jim Arndt, Keith Walsh, Carl Watson, Ronnie Brown, Charles Rowell. Middle row, left to right: Larry Bryan, Bob Johannas, Jerry Cowan, Larry Cook, Leon Rowell, Jerry Tarvin, Johnny Jordan, Garry Schultz, Richard Miller. Back row, left to right: Bob Tarvin, Virgil Roarda, Bob Gorsuch, Robert Voith, Denny Van Cleave, Bill Tarvin, Jerry Davis, Bill Gregory, Jim Bear, Al Stanley.
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Date Created
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1953
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PID
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grinnell:27233
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Reverend and Mrs. Horn and Son
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Description
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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.
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Date Created
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1920
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PID
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grinnell:20694