The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-03-19
T0OELE, UTAH.
CORNERSTONE is LAID.
Especial Correspondence)

| Especial Correspondence
With appropriate ceremonies the cor
nerstone Of the new Catholic church to
be erected in Tooele was laid last Sun
day. Rev. Father Kelly Of st. Mary's
| cathedral. Salt Lake, officiating. The
ceremony was witnessed by hundreds
of representative citizens of various
creeds. who listened with interest to the
several talks.
The cornerstone was laid at 2 o'clock
| following the solemnization of high
mass by Father Kelly. The Salt Lake
pastor spoke briefly, and was followed
| by Mayor Henry Marshall and c. r.
Mcbride. both of whom talked at length
on the benefits to be derived by the
Catholic Practitioners by having a house
of worship.
The new church. work on the fOunda-
ton of which was started but a few
days aso, Is located at Third avenue
and Utah street. 1t will be q frame
| structure, and will be ready for the
holding of services on Easter morning,
two weeks from last Sunday, if present
plans carry. The furnishings come
from st. Mary's cathedral in Salt Lake,
and while the exterior of the new edifice
VIII be by no means pretentious, the in
terror will present an attractive sight,
and will be gladly welcomed by the 700
Mayer Marshall, in his remarks, said:
We have assembled here today for the
purpose of laying the cornerstone of a
sacred edifice, that of the Catholic
church. We gladly welcome you into
our midst for such a worthy purpose,
as we regard churches and schools as
being the best foundation for the up
building of a laW-abiding and orderly
community.
we live under a constitution that
guarantees to each and every person the
right to worship God according to the
dictates of his or her conscience. Each
church should be charitable and toler-
ant to every other church. There are
many good things that can be credited
every church. We are all working for
common purpose, only in different
way, and all trying to do good and to
be good, and why shouldn't we?
'Sixty-three years ago this coming
summer a small band of MormOns, after
suffering much hardships and persecu-
ton for the sake of their religion, were
driven from their homes and took ref
uge in the desert wastes of the far west
Centuries before faithful Catholic
missionaries were enduring untold
hardships in trying to teach the semi
barbarous savages from Hudson bay on
the north to the Gulf of Mexico on the
south, the great truths of Christianity
striving to lead them to a higher, nobler
life
mo welcome could be too cordial to
people who have demonstrated their
ability and willingness to suffer for the
sake Of Him who also suffered on the
cross.
Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of
the municipality of Tooele, I welcome
you one and all who are specially inter-
ested in the laying of the cornerstone
of this building, and later in the build
ing of the structure that will be credit
to yourselves and the city. May the |
blessings of heaven attend your efforts
for the uplifting of humanity and the |
alienation of suffering for which your
church pre-eminently stands"
In the box which was placed in the
cornerstone there was placed the follow
ing data:
st. Marguerite's church, at Tooele,
Tooele county, Utah.
The cornerstone of this church was
laid on Sunday March Il, 1910, at 1920
o'clock a. m, by the Reverend Denis
Kelly, Vicar General of the Diocese of
Salt Lake
On this date
Pope Plus X is Supreme Pontiff.
Right Rev. Laurence Seaman is Bish-
op of the diocese Of Salt Lake.
William Howard Taft is President of
the United States.
William Spry is Governor of Utah.
Henry Marshall is mayor of the city |
of Tooele.
The ceremonies attendant upon the
laying of the cornerstone were attended |
by a large number of people, and adj
dresses were made by Rev. Father |
Kelly, Mayor Marshall and C. R. Nc |
Bride Of the board of education of |
Tooele.
The cornerstone was presented by F.
E. McGurrin of the Salt Lake Security |
& Trust company, and the church was
named ''St. Marguerite's Church." in
perpetuation of the memory of Miss
Miss Marguerite McGurrin, daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. G. H. McGurrin, who
died November 5, 1909, at Kalamazoo,
Michigan, in her seventeenth year.
Among those present at the laying of
the cornerstone were Messrs. A. c. Sui
Ivan of Salt Lake City, cashier of the
Salt Lake Security & Trust company;
Gustave Sievers, cashier of Commercial
Bank of Tooele; Mr.. and Mrs. Grow
howsky of the Tooele Commercial COM
pany, George ]. Johnston of the Inter-
national Smelter company, John G.. Ho-
gan of the same company, James Nc
Intosh, superintendent of construction
of the International smelter; W. A r.
vine, president of the Tooele Land I'm
provement company; DR.. Phipps of