PARK AND CEMETERY. 
VII 
Sod Cutters and Weed Pullers 
We have received inquiries for weed 
pullers and also for machine or hand 
sod cutters and should like to hear of 
firms who handle these articles. 
PERSONAL. 
Homer Skeels, for the past six - or 
seven years in charge of the landscape 
improvements in Higginbotham Park 
near Joliet, 111., has been appointed 
landscape gardener for Dellwood, the 
new park laid out by the Chicago Elec- 
tric Railway. He has already assumed 
his new duties and will also retain his 
general supervision of Higginbotham 
Park. 
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Supt. Geo. A. Parker, of Hartford, 
Conn., is ■ recovering from a severe ill- 
ness due to the effects of an operation 
for a carbuncle in his back from which 
he suffered severely during February. 
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The P. J. Berckmans Company, of 
Augusta, Ga., announce that their land- 
scape and engineering department has 
been enlarged and additional experts 
employed for the purpose of meeting 
the requirements of the growing de- 
mand for this class of work in the 
South. 
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E. A. Sterling, formerly assistant for- 
ester in the Department of Agriculture 
at Washington, has been appointed for- 
ester of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
Mr. Sterling will be the first forester 
of an American railroad 
* * 
Gilbert L. Shutt, late of the park board 
of Minneapolis, Minn., was married to 
Miss Helen T. Updegraff, daughter of 
the late Judge Robert D. Updegraff and 
grandaughter of the late Congressman 
J. T. Updegraff, at Cleveland, Ohio, 
December 23, 1900 
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The office of city sexton, of Newman, 
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