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The Watchman And Southron
Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina
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Formal opening exercises for the partly completed State Office Building in Columbia will be held Wednesday afternoon, with Governor Thomas G. McLeod as master of ceremonies. The building, at Sumter and Senate streets, cost approximately $800,000 and is now occupied by various government departments except the supreme court and attorney general offices.
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Exercises To Be Held Wednesday at State Office Building
Columbia, Jan. 3.--Exercises marking the formal opening of the State office building here, now partly completed, will be held in that structure Wednesday afternoon.
Governor Thomas G. McLeod during whose administration the building was erected, will be master of ceremonies.
After the invocation by the Rev. H. D. Phillips, D. D., rector of Trinity Episcopal Church here, the governor will present the members of the State Sinking Fund Commission, the comptroller general, the attorney general, the state treasurer, chairman of the senate finance committee and the house ways and means committee--Malcolm Miller, secretary of the sinking fund commission; Harold Tatum, of Columbia, architect; W. G. Distler, vice president of the George A. Fuller Company of New York, general contractors for the building; E. H. Heyward, representing W. B. Guarmarin & Co., of Columbia, contractors for heating and plumbing.
After these introductions, the governor will make an address.
The new building, corner of Sumter and Senate streets, is now complete in large part and is occupied by various commissions and departments of government. It was erected at a total cost of approximately $800,000. All of the departments which are to occupy the building are now under its roof except the offices of the supreme court and of the attorney general.
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Columbia
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Wednesday Afternoon
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the building is now complete in large part, occupied by various commissions and departments of government except the supreme court and attorney general offices; erected at a total cost of approximately $800,000.
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Exercises marking the formal opening of the State office building, now partly completed, will be held in that structure. Governor Thomas G. McLeod will be master of ceremonies. After invocation by Rev. H. D. Phillips, the governor will present members of the State Sinking Fund Commission, comptroller general, attorney general, state treasurer, chairmen of senate finance and house ways and means committees, Malcolm Miller, Harold Tatum, W. G. Distler, and E. H. Heyward. The governor will then make an address. The building is at the corner of Sumter and Senate streets.