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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
IMPROVEMENTS and EXTENSIONS 
Hillside Cemetery, Torrington, Conn., has been , incor- 
porated. 
Oakdale Cemetery, Wilton Junction, Iowa, has added a 
new tract to their grounds. 
The Fremont Cemetery Association, Fremont, Neb., have 
purchased an addition to Ridge Cemetery. 
The Odd Fellows of Rockwood, Md., have purchased 
seven and a half acres of land for a cemetery. 
A new cemetery of two acres, known as Floodwood 
Cemetery, has been laid out in Duluth, Minn. 
The Eastern Cemetery Association of Jeffersonville, Ind., 
has purchased an additional tract of land for $3,500. 
The Chatigue Cemetery Co., Mobile, Ala., has been incor- 
porated by T. W. Sims, L. C. Fry and G. R. Vaughan. 
An addition of ten acres has been made to Lake View 
Cemetery, Penn Yan, N. Y., which is to be improved this 
spring. 
The Baltic Cemetery Association, Tuscarawas county, Ohio, 
has been incorporated by Edward Regula, C. Ackerman and 
others, 
Woodlawn Cemetery, of Baltimore, Md,, is to build a new 
waiting room and chapel after designs by Wyatt & Nolting, 
architects. 
The Pittsfield West Cemetery Association has been incor- 
porated at Pittsfield, 111., by T. N. Hall, J. E. Dinsmore and 
S. L. Crane. 
M. H. Cahoon, of Mitchellville, Iowa, has donated the 
greater part of his estate to the trustees of Eranklin Town- 
ship Cemetery. 
A tract of thirty-five acres has been purchased by citizens 
of San Bernardino, Cal., and is to be improved as Mountain 
View Cemetery. 
The Hackman Cemetery Association of Arenzvillo, 111., 
has been incorporated by Henry Zahn, Henry Hinners and 
H. W. Hackman. 
The German Evangelical St. Peter’s Congregation at St. 
Louis has purchased a tract of eighteen acres about a mile 
from Wellston for a cemetery. 
The Chestnut Hill Cemetery Association has been incor- 
porated at Auburn, N. Y., by C. M. Hart, J. M. Peckham, 
W. H. Van Sickle and others. 
A new memorial chapel is planned for the city cemetery 
at Red Wing, Minn. Other improvements, including plac- 
ing of lot marks, will also be made. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detriot,Mich., has filed notice of a 
$275,000 increase of its capital stock for the purpose of buy- 
ing 300 acres of additional territory. 
Seven acres of land in Stratford, Conn., have been pur- 
chased for a new cemetery by the Slavonian Cemetery Asso- 
ciation of St. John’s Slavonian R. C. Church. 
The Cedarhurst Cemetery Associattion of LaPorte, Tex., 
has been incorporated with a capital stock of $25,000 by A. 
N. McKay, 1. R. Holmes and A. O. Blackwell. 
The Catholic Bishop of Chicago has purchased forty acres 
of land in the township of Thornton from James D. Erskine 
for $10,000. The tract is to be laid out as a cemetery. 
Oak Hill Cemetery, Medford, Mass., is to erect about a 
half mile of fence to enclose the new addition to that ceme- 
tery. E. W. Mitchell is superintendent of the grounds. 
The Elmwood Cemetery Co., Birmingham, Ala., contem- 
plate building receiving vaults adjoining their present chapel 
and are ready to receive bids and proposals for the work. 
The forest Lawn Cemeter\' Association, Omaha, Neb., will 
erect three new entrance gates at a cost of $5,000 and will 
place a considerable length of new fence about the grounds. 
The contract has been let for the erection of a new 
shelter house in Oakland Cemetery, Clinton, la. The 
structure is to be a gift of W. T. Joyce and will cost about 
$ 10 , 000 . 
The new Glendale Cemetery, Des Moines, Iowa, has recently 
been opened. Superintendent J. A. Brewer, in charge of that 
tract and Woodland Cemetery, has recommended that auto- 
mobiles be prohibited from the cemeteries. 
The ■ city of Des Moines, Iowa, has purchased a sixty- 
eight acre tract adjoining the Iowa State Fair grounds for a 
city cemetery. The land cost $23,000 and the improvements 
are to be commenced this spring under the charge of City 
Engineer George Dobson. 
Oak Hill Cemetery, Lebanon, Ind., bas six complete and 
well equipped greenhouses. Five of the buildings are 20x64 
and the sixth is 20x100 feet. There is also a boiler-house 
equipped with a fifty horse power lx)iler. The houses built 
last year have been torn down. 
The South Side Cemetery Association, of Glens Falls, 
N. Y., are to build a new receiving vault of cement blocks. 
The Montgomery County, Pa., Court has ordered the re- 
moval of bodies from the old Harmon Hill burying ground 
to the Hillside Cemetery near Willow Grove. 
Ottumwa Cemetery, Ottumwa, Iowa, has graded seven 
acres of additional territory on the lawn plan at a cost of 
$3,000 and erected a combined memorial chapel and office 
building. The building is a monumental structure of Bed- 
ford stone with interior finish of oak and cost $5,000. 
The city council of Chanute, Kan., has passed a resolu- 
tion authorizing the cemetery committee to notify all lot 
owners in Elmwood, the city cemetery, that payments for 
their lots must be made within thirty days, or the assignment 
of the lot to them will be canceled and the areas sold to^ 
others, 
Oakland Cemetery, St. Paul, has amended its rules con- 
cerning grave marks by the following addition “Grave marks- 
must be dressed on all sides.” The purpose of this rule is to- 
abolish the rock-faced grave mark. Secretary Willis writes 
that they had three or four of them last year and that they 
are a perpetual nuisance as it is almost impossible to cut the 
grass around them to make a clean lawn. 
The Ladies’ Club of Watseka, 111., has organized a society 
known as the Ladies’ Club Cemetery Association, and have 
taken over the old town cemetery. Oak Hill, comprising 32 
acres and will have it improved on modern lines. H. E. Weed 
has been engaged to furnish the plans. Improvements will 
consist of macadamizd driveways, water system, sexton’s resi- 
dence, etc. They have raised $6,000 and expect to make it 
$10,000. One-third of the total acreage is in the old grounds. 
Old coping, fencing, etc., will be dispensed with, and as far 
as possible the old section made to conform with the new. 
Superintendent J. W. Haddon, of the Comanche Indian 
school, at Lawton, Okla., who is a member of tbe govern- 
ment town site commission appointed to select, survey and 
plat five town sites on the Indian pasture lands that have re- 
cently been sold, will have charge of the securing of land 
for a cemetery for each of these towns. No public land is 
left and if the government does not purchase land for ceme- 
teries, the new town governments must do it. In the case 
of other government town sites heretofore opened in this 
part of the territory the government has donated cemetery 
sites. 
