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PARK AND C EM ET ER 1 ’. 
IMPROVEMENTS and EXTENSIONS 
The villige of Navarre, O., is provid- 
ing for endowment of cemetery lots in 
Union Lawn Cemetery, which is under 
the supervision of tlie village. 
The board of trustees of the Dans- 
ville Cemetery Association. Dansville, 
N. Y., re'eommended in their recent .an- 
nual report that every lot owner be as- 
sessed a sufficient amount to take care 
of all the abandoned lots and that the 
price of lots be raised owing to the 
liigher cost of labor. A trust fund was 
created about thirty years ago but less 
than fifty out of 1,096 lots have been 
provided for under this fund. 
A lull passed by tlie United States 
Senate authorizes the Secretary of the 
Interior to sell to any religious or fra- 
ternal association or private corpora- 
tion not more than eighty acres of any 
unappropriated non-mineral public 
lands of tbe United States for cemetery 
purposes at a cost of not less than $1.25 
an acre. 
Ishpeming Cemetery, at Ishpeming. 
Mich., will plant about a hundred and 
fifty trees in the newly platted portion 
of the ground and make an enlarge- 
ment in the receiving vault. 
I'he Harmony Cemetery Company, in 
the Harmony School District, Laramie 
County, Colo., has been • incorporated 
by Benjamin Preston, H. W. Brownell 
and U. S. G. Frederick. 
1 he Glenwood Cemetery Association, 
at Oneida, N. Y.. will erect a new en- 
trance gate. 
The hoard of selectmen of Benning- 
ton, Vt., have been authorized to se- 
cure a tract of land for a cemetery and 
have a topographical survey made of it, 
for the purpose of securing competitive 
landscape plans for its improvement. 
Rev. A. J. Barron, . 'SI. Barber and 1. 
E. Gibson are tbe committee in charge 
of the work. 
The cemetery committee of the town 
of Waterville, Me., have appointed a 
special committee composed of S. J. 
Tapper, Frank Redington and F. J. 
Arnold to secure plans for the erection 
of a chapel at the cemetery. 
Warren H. Manning, of Boston, has 
prepared plans for the parking and im- 
proving of Evergreen Cemetery, Nor- 
folk, Va. 
Notre Dame des Neiges Cemetery, 
Montreal, Can., has purchased an ad- 
dition of seventy acres for $97,000. 
The Middle Point Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Middle Point, O., has been in- 
corporated. 
A new cemeter}' of forty acres, to 
be known as Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, 
has been platted in Northeast Minne- 
apolis, by Edmund G. Walton, and is 
to. be improved as a lawn plan ceme- 
tery. 
A company has been organized and 
has purchased two hundred acres of 
land north of New Albany. Tnd., where 
they will establish a cemetery known 
as Buena Vista to be developed on the 
modern lawn plan. The company is 
reported to be backed by Louisville 
capitalists. 
A bill has been passed by the IMassa- 
chusetts Legislature forbidding the es- 
tablishment or enlargement of a ceme- 
ter\' except by the permission of the 
local board of health. 
Elm Grove Cemetery has been in- 
corporated at Pittsfield, 111., by A. C. 
Matthews, Roy D. Plattner and Geo. H. 
Howland. 
Wbiteacre Cemetery. Cygnet. O., has 
let the contract for a new receiving 
vault to be built of concrete blocks. 
The Mercer Cement Block Co., of 
Bowling Green, O., are the contractors 
for the structure. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas, Tex., 
will expend about $5,000 in improve- 
ments among wbich will be laying new 
water mains, paving some of the road- 
ways and erecting a new iron fence. 
Ashland Cemetery, Ashland. O., will 
add about three acres of adjoining ter- 
ritory. 
The James Bane Cemetery Associa- 
tion at Topley. Okla., has been incor- 
porated by E. A. Phillips. J, M. Sea- 
well and James Bane. 
The Stony Creek Cemetery Associa- 
tion, of Branford, Conn., has filed arti- 
cles of association signed by Frank E. 
Smith and others. 
Fairview Cemetery, New Britain, 
Conn., is enlarging the receiving vault 
at a cost of about $900. 
Lincoln Park Cemetery is a new cem- 
etery for colored people at East Lake, 
near Birmingham, Ala. R. D. Cronk 
is president of the company and A. H. 
Dunlop, of Ensle}', is vice president. 
The compaii}- will also establish two 
cemeteries at Ensley, one for white 
people and one for colored, and a cem- 
etery for white people at Birmingham. 
A bill has been introduced in the 
Missouri Legislature appropriating $15,- 
000, the interest of which is to be de- 
voted to caring for tbe Confederate 
Cemetery at Springfield, Mo. 
The Morristown Cemeterr'' Associa- 
tion, of Morristown. Vt., has been in- 
corporated to care for and control all 
the cemeteries of that town with the 
exception of Pleasant View. The in- 
corporators a"e C. L. Shaw, Ida 
Churchill, Mrs. L. M. Thomas and i\Irs. 
Nellie F. Crane. 
The Union Cemetery Association of 
Asher, Kan., has been incorporated by 
J. W. Paddock, R. L. Howard and oth- 
ers. 
Cedar Falls Cemetery, Cedar Falls, 
Iowa, has secured permission of the 
court to have its old plat made forty- 
two years ago annulled and will replat 
the grounds. 
Mt. St. Mary's Cemetery, East Prov- 
idence, "R. I., has purchased thirty-five 
acres of additional territory. The tract 
is owned by St. Mary’s Church of 
which Rev. J. C. Tennian is pastor. 
The town of Milton, Mass., has voted 
$2,000 for the improvement of the cem- 
etery. 
Pine Hill Cemetery, Westfield, Mass., 
has graded a new addition of about one 
bundred lots. Geoge E. Whipple has 
been elected president of tbe associa- 
tion and Frank W. Alderman, clerk. 
Pine Grove Cemetery, Hinsdale, N. 
H., has been offered an adjoining tract, 
539x341 feet, as an addition to the 
grounds. 
The St. Stephen’s Cemetery Associa- 
tion at Ft. Thomas, Ky., has engaged 
C. C. and E. A. Weber, architects, to 
prepare plans for a new chapel and re- 
ceiving vault to cost $10,000. 
Ocean View Cemetery Association has 
purchased one hundred acres of land 
for a new cemetery nine miles from 
Los Angeles, Cal. Elaborate plans 
have been made for developing the 
grounds and building a handsome 
chapel and administration buildings 
which it is estimated will cost about 
$250,000. Roscoe Neal is president of 
the company and R. Donaldson Brown, 
secretary. 
Kelsey & Guild, landscape archi- 
tects, Boston, are making plans for a 
municipal cemetery for the city of Lum- 
berton, N. C. The property includes 
about fifty acres and the work of im- 
provement will begin this spring. 
The Green Park Cemetery, Portland. 
Ind., will lay out new sections, plant 
many new trees and shrubbery and erect 
new entrance gates. The improve- 
ments will cost about $3,000. 
Cemetery superintendents and sex- 
tons will be interested in the combina- 
tion box of materials furnished by the 
Harrison Supply Co., 5 and 7 Dorches- 
ter avenue, Boston. Mass., for cleaning- 
granite and marble monuments. The 
box contains not only the materials to 
remove moss, stains, rust, oil, etc., but 
tbe necessary brushes, sponges, etc.,, 
with which to apply them. 
