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Title: Grinnell Savings Bank Passbook
Description: Grinnell Savings Bank(Iowa) passbook belonging to Raymond Estel Pilgrim showing deposits made in 1918 and 1919.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:17770

Title: Hammond-Burns Wedding and 50th Anniversary Announcements
Description: Two newspaper clippings concerning Mae Hammond and Frank R. Burns. The first is the announcement of their wedding which occurred on June 1, 1918, at the home of the bride's mother, 1127 Broad Street, Grinnell, Iowa. The second is an announcement concerning their 50th wedding anniversary celebration held at the Des Moines Club in Des Moines, Iowa.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:20660

Title: History and Genealogy of Bailey and Baggs Families
Description: Ten pages of handwritten notes detailing the history and genealogy of the James Fordyce Bailey family and the George Thomas Baggs family. This is probably a draft of the entry for James Fordyce Bailey in Leonard Fletcher Parker's History of Poweshiek County, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:5851

Title: Letter from Charles Noble to Frank Burns
Description: Letter from Charles Noble, professor of English at Grinnell College and a minister, to Frank R. Burns, confirming that Professor Noble will perform a marriage ceremony for Frank and Mae Hammond on June 1, 1918, at the Hammond home in Grinnell, Iowa.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:20661

Title: Madison Township School Board Meeting Minutes, 1916-1952
Description: Minutes of the Madison Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, school board from July 1, 1916, through March 17, 1952. Meetings were held at the White Cloud School. The board paid bills, issued bonds, set salaries, contracted for construction and maintenance of school buildings. Names of school board members present at each meeting are listed.
Date Created: 1916
PID: grinnell:18024

Title: Newspaper Clippings on the Wedding of Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown
Description: Newspaper clippings about the wedding and wedding reception of Charles Austin Palmer and Nora Belle Brown on September 21 and 22, 1910, near Newburg, Iowa.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:11947

Title: Project Interaction : What Was Life Like for a Child Sixty Years Ago?, What Was Life Like for a Child Sixty Years Ago?
Description: Interviews conducted with Grinnell senior citizens by the various clubs of the Poweshiek Council of Campfire Girls. Interviews with Henry Alden, Katherine Kintzinger Cramer, Elizabeth Hempstead Ernst, Lucille Potts, George Ernst, Hester Sperling Wells, Mrs. Van Nimwigian, Edna Tinnes, Vera Hyde, Dorothy Elliott Sisco, Doris White Anderson, Lola Clark Fields, and Harvey Marcum.
Date Created: 1979
PID: grinnell:6050

Title: Receipt for Ford Touring Car
Description: Receipt dated March 16, 1910, from the Grinnell Garage Company, Grinnell, Iowa, to Mr. George Brown for a Ford Touring car costing $950. Brown is possibly George Brown (1837-1934) who is buried in Westfield Cemetery in Poweshiek County, Iowa. The proprietors of Grinnell Garage Company were E.H. Spaulding and A.C. Dickerson.
Date Created: 1910
PID: grinnell:6412

Title: Record of Attendance, Welch System of Close Supervision
Description: School attendance records and grades for pupils at Washington #4 school in Poweshiek County, Iowa, for the years 1915 through 1920. The attendance book is a preprinted book titled The Welch System of Close Supervision, by W.M. Welch and published by W.M. Welch Mfg. Co., Chicago, in 1915. The first 6 pages of the book are examples of how it is to be used. Other information contained in the book includes textbooks used, class schedule, condition of the school and grounds, teacher's salary, and a list of visitors. Alice Slaven was the teacher from November 1915 through March 1917 and from April 1918 through June 1918. Rilla Cooper was teacher from September 1917 through February 1918. Margaret Leonard was teacher from November 1918 through March 1919. Agnes Stoner was teacher from May 1920 through June 1920, and Anna Lou Leonard was teacher from September through October 1920.
Date Created: 1915
PID: grinnell:17793

Title: Report of Monthly Examination
Description: Monthly examination report for April 1918 filed by Alice Slaven, teacher at Washington #4 school in Poweshiek County, Iowa. Scores were reported for students Ralph Russell, Louise Keenan, and William Keenan. This report was laid in the "Record of Attendance" book for the school for the years 1915-1920.
Date Created: 1918
PID: grinnell:18023