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CrntTERY NOTES 
Eastern Cemetery, Jeffersonville, 
Ind., recently dedicated a new addi- 
tion. 
A new chapel and receiving vault of 
re-enforced concrete and cement 
blocks is being erected in Forest Hill 
Cemetery, Scranton, Pa. 
The DeLand Cemetery Association 
of DeLand, 111., has been incorporated 
by M. E. Bondurant, H. W. Gantz, 
and D. W. Hursh. 
Greenwood Cemetery, Muscatine, 
la., is to be enlarged by an addition 
of twenty acres. 
The town board of Deer River, 
Minn., has bought a tract of land four 
miles from town and will reserve part 
of it for a cemetery. 
A new drinking fountain of the de- 
sign shown in the illustration has 
been erected in Evergreen Cemetery, 
DESIGN FOR DRINKING FOUNTAIN. 
Evergreen Cemetery, Colorado Springs. 
Colorado Springs, Colo., just north of 
the caretaker’s office, by the Ceme- 
tery Aid Association. The fountain 
is built of green stone from Ute Pass, 
near Manitou, and cost about $600. 
It is eight feet square and 14 feet 
high. It was erected by A. Dixon of 
Manitou. 
Valley City Cemetery, Grand Rap- 
ids, Mich., has installed a new water 
works system consisting of four four- 
inch wells 45 feet deep in a direct line 
about 20 feet apart. The wells have 
been connected and will be operated 
by a steam pump. Eugene Goebel, 
Superintendent of the cemetery, says 
with a proper engine he can pump 
500 gallons a minute, and contem- 
plates adding two more wells to the 
system. A standpipe is to be erected 
at a favorable point and Mr. Goebel 
says the system can be operated at 
considerable saving over the $2,000 
now paid each year for water, 
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A fire which was started in Pine 
Island Cemetery, Norwalk, Conn., Au- 
gust 14, did several hundred dollars 
damage to the owners of property and 
will, it is thought, cause confusion in 
establishing lot boundaries. 
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Suggestions for names for the new 
East Side Cemetery to be opened in 
Des Moines, Iowa, published by the 
Capital of that city do not seem to 
have resulted in anything startlingly 
original, as the following list will 
show: East Lawn, Eorest Lawn, 
Meadow Lawn, Bird Lawn, Mount 
Carmel, Eorest Cemetery, Mount 
Rose, Elowering Eield Cemetery, Ma- 
ple Grove, Oakland, Linwood and 
Calvary. 
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George Everett Lane has been ap- 
pointed to succeed the late William 
Stone as Superintendent of Pine 
Grove Cemetery, Lynn, Mass. Mr. 
Lane is one of the gardeners at the 
cemetery and has been employed on 
the grounds under Mr. Stone for the 
Ijast fourteen years, during which 
time he has been engaged in every 
branch of the work, the last three 
summers and two winters being spent 
in the greenhouse. He is 37 years 
old, is married, and is regarded as a 
most capable successor to Mr. Stone. 
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The National Memorial Association, 
recently formed at Piqua, O., has 
elected the following officers: Na- 
tional President, E. M. Bell; Vice- 
President, H. L. Roberts; Secretary, 
A. G. Perry; Treasurer, C. D. Pox; 
Chaplain, J. S. Bierley. The associa- 
tion is the outgrowth of the Piqua 
Memorial Association and is intended 
to be national in its scope. It is said 
to be formed to answer the question: 
‘‘What will become of Memorial 
Day?” and will assist the G. R. and 
kindred organizations. 
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Following the plan .adopted in Mil- 
waukee and other cities, the directors 
of Oakwood cemetery, Sharon, Pa., 
have placed a ban on Sunday funerals, 
says the Embalmers’ Monthly. To 
stop Sunday funerals the charge for 
digging graves was doubled, but this 
did not work. At a recent meeting 
it was decided that no more Sunday 
interments would be permitted except 
in cases of great emergency. The 
directors of three of the cenreteries 
in Milwaukee have taken similar ac- 
tion, and it should be remembered 
that Milwaukee is a German city, where 
the observance of the Sabbath is not 
as strict as in some other places. 
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The cemetery commissioners of At- 
lanta, Ga., after making preparations 
to modernize Oakland Cemetery on 
the lawn plan as rapidly as possible, 
and preparing an ordinance embody- 
ing the expert -advice of some of the 
leading cemetery superintendents, 
have yielded to the protests of some 
of the lot owners against gradually 
removing copings as they become un- 
sightly. This provision met with ob- 
jection from citizens who have not 
been educated up to the lawn idea of 
cemetery development and thought 
that they should be permitted to keep 
up the walls surrounding the lots. 
Councilman Taylor, who framed and 
carried through council the ordinance 
putting the management of the ceme- 
tery under modern regulations, has 
acceded to the objections of the pro- 
testin.g citizens. 
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William Allen, assistant superin- 
tendent of Mount Auburn Cemetery, 
Cambridge, Mass., has been elected 
superintendent of Homewood Ceme- 
tery, Pittsburg, to succeed the late 
David Woods. Mr. Allen is one of the 
youngest superintendents in the coun- 
try to be in charge of a cemetery of 
such importance, and his election 
testifies not only to his personal 
worth, but is a striking example of 
the triumph of merit over pull. He 
was entirely unknown in Pittsburg, 
and was given the position solely on 
his record of long and efficient service 
at Mt. Auburn, in preference to a 
large number of local candidates with 
strong political backing. Mr. Allen 
assumed his new duties in September 
and before leaving Boston was ten- 
dered a farewell banquet by the New 
I'jigland Cemetery Association, of 
which he was secretary-treasurer. He 
was presented with a pair of gold cuff 
links, and the members present rose 
and sang “Auld Lang Syne” as a fare- 
well to their popular officer. H. A. 
Derry, of Everett, Mass., was elected 
secretary, to succeed Mr. Allen, and 
five new members were elected. There 
were about thirty present. 
