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Title: M & M Auction Bid Card
Description: Auction bid card from M & M Auction, Inc. of Barnes City and Montezuma, Iowa. On one side is a photo of the auctioneers, William "Bill" Mason and Paul D. Mason with their pickup truck. On the other side is the auction bidders number with lines to list their purchases.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12523

Title: Main Street, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the north side of Main Street in Montezuma, Iowa, looking west towards the intersection of 4th Street and Main Street.
Date Created: 1900
PID: grinnell:12511

Title: Main Street, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view looking east on Main Street in Montezuma, Iowa, from the intersection of North 3rd Street and Main. A parade,possibly 4th of July, is in progress with many automobiles and flags. Card is postmarked February 21, 1911, in Montezuma, and is addressed to Miss Helen Shivers, Cadiz, Ohio.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:12507

Title: Main Street, Searsboro, Ia., Main Street, Searsboro, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Main Street in Searsboro, Iowa. Number B1537A1, published by P.T. Logue and H. G. Zimmerman & Co., Chicago. Postcard addressed to Mrs. A. C. Smith, 731 S. Main, Kewanee, Illinois, and dated October 21, 1909.
Date Created: 1909
PID: grinnell:27201

Title: McCormick Farm Equipment Store
Description: Matchbook cover advertising the McCormick Farm Equipment store in Montezuma, Iowa. The outside of the matchbook has images of International trucks; the inside has the name and address of the local dealer. Matchbook produced by Universal Match Corp.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:12533

Title: Monte Cafe
Description: Matchbook covers advertising the Monte Cafe in Montezuma, Iowa. Produced by the Diamond Match Co.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:12520

Title: N.E. Corner of Main and First Streets, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of the northeast corner of Main and First Streets in Montezuma, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6246

Title: Newburg Elevator
Description: The Newburg (Iowa) elevator in the early 1940s. The elevator was built in 1917 and demolished in 2014. Itel Gillespie and Mac (Glenn) McCarel are standing in front of the elevator. On the verso of the photo is a handwritten history of the elevator and the town which was probably written in the late 1960s. It reads: Newburg founded 1878. 100 years ago there were 2 grain elevators constructed of wood. Then in 1917-1918 a poured concrete elevator and a block warehouse were built and still in use. 3 grocery stores that burned. The present building that still stands was a grocery store, but now is an apartment house. The railroad depot was demolished about 5 years ago. A water tank furnished water to the steam engines. A stock yard was available for the farmers cattle and hogs. We had our own post office. The creamery building still stands and did a route business and part of the building used as an ice house. We once had a prosperous bank, but it closed in 1933. There have been 2 blacksmith shops, a lumber yard. The farmers owned a telephone switchboard. One of the residents owned and operated a Model T agency. At one time we had 2 churches, the Church of God and the Congregational, this is now known as the UCC. A KP hall served as community center where the women gathered to sew during World War I. The lower floor housed new farm machinery. Our school is still operating and it now serves just 6th graders and one kindergarten class. In 1964 a newly formed organization known as Newburg Community Service Association dug a 225 foot well. It serves all homes business, school and church.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:20602

Title: Newburg General Store
Description: The former Newburg General Store in Newburg, Iowa. Dorothy Palmer and her son, David Yandell are standing in front. Charles Austin and Nora Belle Palmer lived above the store with their family in the early 20th century. Abi (Alden) and Anson Palmer (Charles' parents) were married and began farming in what became Newburg in 1877. In 1881, Abi's brother, George Alden, bought the little general store on the land they were farming for Abi and George's mother, Louisa, and unmarried sister, Vesta, to live in. In 1920 or 1921 the apartment above the general store was available and Charles Austin Palmer and his wife, Nora Belle (Brown), lived there with their children when they returned to Newburg in 1920 or 1921, after building houses in Carpenter, Wyoming for a few years. Philip Palmer was born here and the family continued to reside above the store until around 1928, when they moved to Grinnell.
Date Created: 2008
PID: grinnell:12024

Title: Newburg Street Scenes
Description: Three views of Newburg, Iowa, showing the general store and the church with automobiles parked along the street.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12004