Newton County GaArchives News.....Laying Cornerstone November 14 1887
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The Georgia Enterprise
  Monday, last, at the hour of high noon, the cornerstone of the new court house
was laid with Masonic honors. The ceremonies consisted of prayer, songs and 
addresses by prominent masons, and other forms, such as pouring corn, wine and 
oil upon the stone was gone through with. There were 300 or more persons 
present, many of whom were ladies.-Among the articles deposited in the stone
were: Letter by J. P. Anderson. Old coins by Edward McJunkin, Willie Edwards,
John Cook, O. T. Rogers, F. W. Wright, Ed Everett, F. M. Arnold, John Norton,
James Smith, J. L. Hays, Rufus Dick, M. Moss and others. Copy of Enterprise,
Star, Atlanta Constitution, Macon Telegraph, Augusta Chronicle & 
Constitutionalist, Signs of the Times, Christian Index, and Atlanta 
Intelligencer, of 1862. Pocket Book, by Gen. W. Scott.- "Ode," by S. N. 
Stallings. Card, by Heard, White & Thompson. Pamphlett by S. D. Fox. Copy of
Golden Fleece Lodge and city of Covington. Card of Thompson & Lee. Democratic
ticket by J. R. Hightower. Prohibition ticket by W. W. Osborn. Chinese coin by
Capers Dickson. List of workmen on building. Confederate money by C. B. Rosser;
Catalogue of Georgia Methodist Female College by President Homer Wright. Old
Virginia and Georgia Treasury notes. Cotton Receipt by W. C. Clark & Co. Names 
builder, contractors and bondsmen. Piece of rope that hung Homer Perry, by John
Norton, Jr. Card of J. S. Thomas and Stephenson House, and many other small 
articles unneccessary to mention.
  The interesting and impressive ceremonies were closed by an able and eloquent
address from Col. Porter King, of Atlanta. The occasion will long live in the 
mind of the large crowd who were present to witness and take part in the 
ceremonies.- Space forbids a more lengthy article upon this interesting 
occasion.

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