Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 158, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 July 1915 — Monticello Masons Buy Site for New Lodge Home. [ARTICLE]

Monticello Masons Buy Site for New Lodge Home.

. By a deal closed the latter part of last week, the Libanus lodge No. 154, F. & A M., of Monticello, became the owner of a valuable piece of property on the west side of the public square in that city. The ground was bought with the purpose of building a temple tihis year and should be ready for dedication early in 1916. All of the building plans are not completed, but it is the intention to build a temple that will be two stories and a basement and will be modern in every particular. The appointments will include reading rooms, rest parlors, gymnasium, kitchen and banqueting hall and a large and subsidiary apartmet for paraphernalia and a smaller hall ter be used by the chapter.