From the Lawrence Daily World for August 15, 1910:

“The corner stone of the magnificent new Masonic temple will be laid with appropriate ceremonies, August 23. A thousand invitations are being mailed out by the committee on arrangements. The corner stone laying itself, which is inaugurated by an imposing march from the old Masonic home to the site of the new temple, is an impressive and solemn ceremony. Into the interior of the corner stone will be placed by-laws and rosters of all county and grand lodge members. Copies of the daily papers and possibly coins and other souvenirs will be sealed in the huge block of white stone which future posterity will sometime examine…. Osawatomie Is Wrathy — The statements by Schuyler Lowe of Independence, Missouri, that nothing but a family feud occurred in Osawatomie [see OHT for Aug. 14, 1910] and that Roosevelt will have nothing but a cornfield to dedicate when he comes to the sunflower state this month, has created a furious wave of protest. Old citizens of the little town assert that as late as 1877 they dug bullets out of the trees…. The heaviest criminal docket in years will confront Judge Smart and County Attorney Harley when court convenes in November. There are already six cases certain to come to trial, and at the present rate of increases, this number promises to be doubled.”