Masons dedicate new center
The Mitchell Masonic Lodge officially dedicated the new law enforcement center with a cornerstone leveling ceremony on Thursday. Several officials within the Mason organization were on hand to assist with the ceremony.
According to local Mason Dan Smith, the ceremony was just the eighth to be performed by the local order since the first one in 1884. The second courthouse ever built in Mitchell County was the first building to receive a cornerstone leveling by the Masons here.
The leveling services of the past were performed just before construction began, so as to make sure the first stone of the building was level and square. All other construction was based off of the cornerstone.
