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Title: Letters Concerning Cattle Markets
Description: Two letters to Raymond S. Pilgrim of Grinnell, Iowa, concerning the state of cattle markets at the Union Stock Yards in Chicago in September 1930. One letter is from Frank R. Mullen of the Mullen Commission Co. , Chicago. The second letter, with envelope, is from E.I. Stephen, Cattle Salesman, of the Chicago Producers Commission Association.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:30057

Title: M.E. Church, Montezuma, Ia., M.E. Church, Montezuma, Iowa
Description: 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.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12515

Title: Making Hay
Description: Photograph of seven men making hay with tractor, wagons and horses. Mr. Tone is at the top of the wagon with Andy Tone just below him.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3334

Title: Poll Tax and Old Age Pension Fund Receipts
Description: Receipts made out to Hilliard Turner and Eldora Turner for the Old Age Pension Fund tax levied for 1936, and to Hilliard Turner for the Poweshiek County Road Poll Tax, also in 1936.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3349

Title: Post Office, Gilman, Iowa
Description: The Gilman Post Office building which was used for revival services by the predecessors of the Assembly of God church in Grinnell, Iowa. This building was moved to a location at 619 Broad Street in Grinnell in the early 1930s by Edward B. Wright (on the right in the picture) and George Driscoll (on the left). Edward B. Wright was an evangelist, and he and Driscoll were also house movers.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:6380

Title: Secretary's Book, Grant Township Farm Bureau, Poweshiek County, 1930
Description: Secretary's book for the Grant Township, Poweshiek County, Iowa, Farm Bureau for 1930. R.S. Pilgrim was the secretary. Includes names of officers, township activities, minutes of meetings, and a list of members.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:30018

Title: St. Mary's Catholic Church
Description: Photograph of St. Mary's Catholic Church on the northeast corner of 5th Avenue and Broad Street in Grinnell, Iowa. The church was built in 1927.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:3331

Title: Swimming lessons
Description: Dorothy Tarleton gives swimming lessons to young girls somewhere in the Grinnell area in the late 1930s.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:12067

Title: Story of an Old Settler
Description: Newspaper clipping of article written by Jennie Bailey (1858-1937) about her father, James Bailey (1815-1888), and mother, Cornelia Doolittle Bailey (1824-1893) and their life in early Grinnell. James Bailey was an Abolitionist and his home was a station on the Underground Railroad. Other people mentioned include Alfred Bailey, Lorenzo Bailey, Joanna Bailey Baggs, and Dennis and Clark Thompson. Topics discussed include the first saw mill in Grinnell, the Bailey House hotel, the Sugar Creek war, and prairie flora.
Date Created: 1930
PID: grinnell:5828