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Title: $25.00 Reward
Description: Postcard sent by the Montezuma, Iowa, Chief of Police and the Northwestern National Insurance Company to the Sheriff's Office in Leon, Iowa, offering a $25.00 reward for information leading to the recovery of a 1932 Nash Sedan which was stolen in Montezuma on February 17, 1934. The postcard is postmarked February 21, 1934, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12530

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: 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: Civil War Veterans on the Courthouse Lawn
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:11767

Title: Eighth Grade Rural Commencement
Description: Program for the eighth grade commencement exercises for the Poweshiek County, Iowa, rural schools held on Sunday, May 27, 1934, at the Montezuma High School auditorium. The program includes a list of names of graduates arranged by township. Emma P. Denham was the county superintendent of schools.
Date Created: 1934
PID: grinnell:12459

Title: Elmer Urfer Farm
Description: Aerial view of the Elmer Urfer farm, rural Montezuma, in the 1940s.
Date Created: 1940
PID: grinnell:27220

Title: Evergreen Chicken near Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of a farmhouse and barn with an evergreen bush that has been sculpted to have a chicken at the top. Postcard is postmarked October 7, 1911, in Montezuma, Iowa, and is addressed to Mrs. Hettie Hege, Columbus, Indiana. The card is signed by Mrs. Clevenger.
Date Created: 1911
PID: grinnell:12522

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: Garfield School, Montezuma, Ia., Garfield School, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: Postcard view of Garfield School in Montezuma, Iowa. A handwritten note on the back of the card reads, "where the old mill used to be." The building, which stood near the location of current (2016) day Brownell's was demolished sometime after 1993. Postcard was published by L.L. Cook, Lake Mills, Wisconsin.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:12513

Title: George W. Cook and Electa C. Cook to Sarah E. Cook, July 1, 1857; July 4, 1857
Description: Letters six and seven are written on the same piece of paper. Letter six is from Electa C. Cook and letter seven is from George W. Cook. Both are to Sarah E. Cook.
Date Created: 1857
PID: grinnell:11845