Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Baptists Lay Corner Stone. [ARTICLE]

Baptists Lay Corner Stone.

Lebanon. July 23. —The corner stone of the new First Baptist church was laid before a crowd of 400 people. The ceremony incident to the event consisted of speeches by Rev. Orton H. Carmichael, Rev. L. E. Brown and Rev. Robert H. (Ball, all pastors of this city, and Mayor E. O. Rogers. Rev. Frank L. Hardy, pastor of the church, gave the church history and J. W. Witt, chairman of the building committee, laid the stone. The new edifice will cost $20,000.