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Show SEVENTH WARD NEW BUILDING Beautiful Structure Which is to Be the Center of Religious Devotion Devo-tion in the North Part of This City Will Cost $18,000 Corner Stone to Be Placed Wednesday. The Seventh ecclesiastical ward of this city contains 550 church members mem-bers who have contributed to the erection of a modern church house on Thirteenth street, between Washlng-to Washlng-to and Adams avenues, which will bo completed before tho end of tho summer sum-mer season. Tho building wllr cost about $18,000, says Bishop M. L Jones, and It will bo among the most handsome and commodious churches of the city. The building is now in course of construction, -the brick walls having been completed to the first floor above the ground. The Interior of the structure struc-ture will not be completed until next fall, says Bishop Jones. Tho reason for not completing it until fall is said to be that it is desired that the structure struc-ture be given time to season anil settle set-tle before plastering and other Interior In-terior work Is done. The church will be a story and a half high and contain a half basement Tho audltoiium will bo on tho first floor, a fow feet above the ground, and It will have a seating -capacity of about 500 The basement will .bo partitioned par-titioned into class rooms for the so of the various educational Institutions of tho church, including religion classes, Sunday school, Mutual Improvement, Im-provement, primary, priesthood quorums quor-ums and other classes which aro a part of the church organization. The building will be 39 feet In width by 880 feet iu length, made of red and buff-colored pressed brick, decorated with white sandstone of the color of marble The corner stone will bo laid next Wednesday evening at 8 o'clock, when all the neighborhood Is expocteJ to be present and participate In the cere monies Some of the apostles will be In attendance anl aid in the placing of the slab of white sandstone at the southeast corner of tho building on the wall at tho first floor The laying of the corner stono will mark an Important epoch in the ward and will be attended with lmpresslvo religious ceremonies. Underneath tho stono will be placed the names of all the officers of the church In the ward, the names of all the teachers of the various educational branches of the church, a copy of the Standard containing con-taining this writcup and some of the church works. fThe names of tho church members of the ward and tho names of tho children of the primary, Sunday school and Mutual Improvement Improve-ment associations will also be placed beneath the stone. Bishop Jones states that the people of the Seventh ward have been generous gen-erous In their contributions toward the erection of tho church, and that they have been fullv consulted regarding re-garding the kind of building that shall be established |