Description: Handwritten notes on this old newpaper clipping indicate that it was given by M. J. Graham to A. F. Weaver, and correctly reports that the church structure burned Aug. 25, 1908. The article erroneously states that it burned July 4, 1914. The article appears to have been published in the Mineral Wells Index. The caption reads: "Crowd attends dedication of the wooden church as it nears completion in the summer of 1896, when the edifice was dedicated to the Lord and mankind. On July 4th, 1914, the church was destroyed by one of the most disastrous fires in the history of Mineral Wells, when 34 residences and hotels, for two blocks east and west, and four blocks north -- from Hubbard St. to N.W. 4th Street, burned -- every place from Hubbard north to 4th St. except the Tygrett home. The present church was constructed some two years after the wooden church burned, on the same site, corner Northwest 2nd Street and Northwest 4th Avenue. Perhaps some of the youngsters in the picture are living in the community today. Picture made available by M. J. Graham from his file of papers and pictures on the history of Presbyterianism in this ...