People are coming out of the church and many people are standing outside still visiting after a Sunday church service. The church was built in 1928 and dismantled in 1968 after the congregation merged with the Methodist church in Hendricks Minnesota.
A belt is running from the tractor to the threshing machine. Two men are on the stack of bundles pitching the bundles into the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw. Along side it two horses are hooked up to a wagon. Two women came to bring lunch.
Oscar Erickson and Lloyd Johnson stand with furniture, lamps, refrigerators and pictures. Lloyd Johnson was also hired as the mortician in the same building. Today this building is home to The Local, a restaurant.
Hendricks High School looked like this from the time it was built in 1923 until an expansion in the 1950s. The school has rows of large windows for classroom lighting and two main doors. This school was brick to decrease the fire risk after the first school was destroyed by fire.
Threshing grain required many people and lots of work. One man is pitching bundles into the threshing machine while the other is watching the steam engine.
The smaller wagon next to the tractor collects the grain after it is run through the threshing machine. The threshing machine separates the grain from the straw, much like today's combine.
Several people are gathered on the front steps of Calvary celebrating 50 years as a congregation. The church was on the corner of Park and Hobart streets. It burned down in 1988.
Basketball players Gerhard Digre, Martin Skovly, Norvald Trooien, Gust Wahlstrom and Virgil Trulock pose for the team picture. Gerhard holding the basketball with the year and Virgil holding a trophy.
The W.E. Club were young people who had attended District #21 school. During the winter of 1925-1926, they presented the play ""Safety First"" several times: at district #21 in the Hendricks High School Gym and in the Hendricks Opera House. The proceeds were used to purchase office furniture for the hospital.