Reporter Ken Black writes in the [Marshalltown] Times-Republican that members of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Iowa were on hand in Marshalltown for the cornerstone laying ceremony at Rogers Elementary School Thursday [September 13]:
During the 2005-06 school year, construction of large addition occurred as well as a remodeling of a portion of our 1955 facility. Because the school recently completed its construction, the Freemasons were invited to perform the group’s cornerstone-laying ceremony.
The grand master of the Masons explained the ceremony, which was several hundred years old. He noted only a few select types of buildings were eligible for the ceremony.
“From time immemorial, it has become the custom of the ancient and honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons, upon request, to lay, with their ancient forms, the cornerstones of buildings erected for the worship of God, for educational or charitable objects, for Masonic uses, or for the purposes of the administration of justice and free government, and of no other buildings,” he said.
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