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Title: 4-H Installation of Officers
Description: Jackson Busy Bees 4-H installs officers in 1960. From left to right: Mary Ahrens, Poweshiek County 4-H president; Pat Breniman, Busy Bees president; Joyce Ketels, vice-president; Barbara Veverka, secretary; Linda Ferguson, treasurer; Mary Sanders, reporter; Kathleen Little, historian.
Date Created: 1960
PID: grinnell:27242

Title: 75th Anniversary of the Malcom Methodist Church
Description: Photograph of, left to right, Bishop F. Gerald Ensley, Gordon Packard, and Dr. Everett Stats at the 75th anniversary celebration of the Malcom Methodist Church, Malcom, Iowa.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5704

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: Chester Royal Grange Christmas Party
Description: Photos of the December 1953 Chester Royal Grange Christmas party. PDF files identify names of those in the pictures.
Date Created: 1953
PID: grinnell:6058

Title: Christmas Pageant
Description: Participants in the Sunday school Christmas pageant at the Malcom Methodist church in the 1950s.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5703

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: Community Welfare Workers, Brooklyn
Description: Members of the Brooklyn CWW Club (Community Welfare Workers). The group often put on plays and entertainments and are dressed in costume here. From left to right: Clara Johnson, Elizabeth Torrance, Abby Carmichael, Mabel Brannian, Mildred Torrance, Blanche Otto, Betty Gritsch.
Date Created: 1920
PID: grinnell:27257

Title: Dinner in the Malcom Methodist Church Basement
Description: Parishioners eating dinner in the basement of the Malcom Methodist Church, Malcom, Iowa, in the 1950s.
Date Created: 1950
PID: grinnell:5705