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tion, of Trilla, III, has been incorpo- 
rated by John W. Miller, E. S. Stay- 
ton and others. 
Woodmen of the World of Dallas, 
Tex., are to develop a 22-acre tract 
two miles south of that city as a cem- 
etery at a cost of $6,000. J. H. Ellis, 
R. H. McDill and A. M. Neel are the 
trustees in charge of the matter. 
The Harrison Cemetery Association 
of Christopher, III, has been incor- 
porated by F. G. Rhea, Reuben Tef- 
fertilier and others. 
Rev. Henry B. TerWoert, pastor of 
St. Mary’s Church, Jersey City, N. J., 
has purchased 200 acres between 
North Arlington and Kingsland’ for a 
Catholic cemetery. 
Superintendent Louis Mohr, of 
Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wis., has 
recently installed a new boiler in the 
greenhouse to which an addition is 
soon to be built. 
The Hugo Cemetery Association of 
Hugo, Colo., has been incorporated by 
L. E. Foote, W. H. Abbott and D. 
Wilson; capital stock $5,000. 
A new receiving vault is under con- 
struction at Hillside Cemetery, Terry- 
ville. Conn. Sperry & Sellers are the 
contractors. 
The cemetery commission of the 
City Council of Atlanta, ,Ga., has rec- 
omended the immediate development 
of a cemetery on 169 acres of the 
Lakewood property owned by the 
city. W. S. Thomson is president of 
the cemetery commission. 
Sid. J. Hare, Kansas City, Mo., has 
recently completed plans for River 
View Cemetery, Jefferson City, Mo. 
The tract includes 83 acres, of which 
13 are’ plotted for immediate use. 
Mr. Hare has also made plans for the 
remaining 62 acres of Park Cemetery, 
Carthage, Mo. It is a wooded tract 
and 9,000 trees are to be cut, leaving 
2.000 standing. Thirty thousand dol- 
lars in stock is to be sold to leading 
citizens who get 33 per cent reduc- 
tion in the price of their lots. 
J. H. Shepard & Son, Syracuse, N. 
Y., have done a great deal of ceme- 
tery work in New York state. Among 
their commissions during the past 
season were the following: Laying 
out and plotting of a six-acre section 
for perpetual care in Cortland Rural 
Cemetery, Cortland, N. Y.; plotting 
of two sections in Morningside Ceme- 
tery, Syracuse, N. Y.; planting of 
1.000 trees and shrubs in Mt. Adnah 
Cemetery, Fulton, N. Y., where they 
also laid out two new sections; lay- 
ing out two new perpetual care sec- 
tions in Mt. Pleasant Cemetery, Can- 
astota, N. Y. They have also done 
work for from six to ten other ceme- 
teries of the state. They have during 
the past season handled a dozen or 
more private estates, among them be- 
ing the eight-acre grounds of J. S. 
Wilkinson at Skaneateles Lake. 
The Coleman Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Buckingham, II!., has been in- 
corporated by William Hendrix, Dan- 
iel Weshprecht, and Kate Schott. 
The Buffalo Rural Cemetery Asso- 
ciation, of Hamburg, New York, has 
been incorporated by George E. Bur- 
rows, Orlo J. Hamlin and others. 
Valley View Cemetery has recently 
been plotted for burial purposes at 
Port Ewen, N. Y., by Frederick Cor- 
mack. 
The city of Munich is to open what 
Robert Broadfoot has been appoint- 
ed superintendent of Glenwood Cem- 
etery, Geneva, N. Y., to succeed 
Thomas F. Day, resigned. Mr. 
Broadfoot was educated in landscape 
gardening at Cornel! and since leav- 
ing college has been in charge of a 
number of private estates. 
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Thomas J. Cole, superintendent of 
Mt. Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Me., has 
tendered his resignation to the Mt. 
Hope Cemetery Corporation to take 
effect Jan. 1. Assistant Street Com- 
missioner Reuben E. Hathorn is men- 
tioned as a possible successor. 
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Because the half plot of ground 
which he purchased in Hillside ceme- 
tery, in Minneapolis, is not situated 
so that the bodies can be buried with 
the heads to the west, William R. 
Francis, an employe of the street car 
company, will sue the cemetery. He 
claims that bodies are always buried 
facing the east and that the half lot 
he purchased is too narrow. 
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The picturesque little Hildreth cem- 
etery owned by the Butler family, 
near Lowell, Mass., w^s entered by a 
gang of vandals and 50 or more of 
the historic tombstones desecrated. 
The most noted stone, that of Gen. Ben- 
jamin F. Butler, was battered by means 
of heavy rocks. The vandals have 
not yet been caught. 
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A total of 132,000 burials made to 
date in the four Catholic cemeteries 
is said to be the first “forest ceme- 
tery” in Germany. The municipality 
has bought 300 acres outside the city 
limits, and it is announced that “even 
ill the matter of gravestones, nothing 
will appear to disturb the rustic beau- 
ty of the landscape.” 
The Blooming Grove Cemetery As- 
sociation, of Bloomington, III, has 
been incorporated by W. M. Cox, A. 
R. Hollis and George P. Orendorf. 
The Miami Valley Cremation Soci- 
ety of Dayton, O., is considering the 
establishment of a crematory in 
Woodland Cemetery in that city. 
The Carman Cemetery Association 
of Carman, III, has been incorporat- 
ed by G. W. Howell, Thomas Dixon 
and F. F. Belding. 
of Boston was reported at the 109th 
meeting of the members of the Bos- 
ton Catholic Cemeteries’ Association, 
recently held in Roxbury, Mass. The 
following board was elected for the 
next term of two years: President, 
William H. Lynch; secretary, Thomas 
McLaughlin; treasurer, Hubert H. 
Guinan; trustees, Joseph P. Vogel, 
James McCornjick and Thomas Duffy. 
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When the children of Mrs. Adela 
Cohen sought to rem.ove her body 
from the cemetery of the Shearith 
Israel Congregation, near Cypress 
Hills Cemetery, Brooklyn, N. Y., to 
Mount Nebo Cemetery to inter it be- 
side their father, the officers of the 
congregation refused to allow it on 
the ground that the laws of their re- 
ligion forbade the removal of a body 
once permanently interred. The chil- 
dren took the matter to court and the 
Supreme Court gave judgment in 
their favor, the Appellate Division 
and the Court of Appeals affirming 
this decision allowing the removal of 
the body. In his opinion Justice Mc- 
Laughlin, of the Appellate Division 
says: “Ecclesiastical law is not a 
part of the law of this State nor are 
equitable rights to be determined by 
ecclesiastical law. When an eccle- 
siastical body assumes jurisdiction 
and, control over a body its acts are 
of a ternporal and judicial character 
and not in any sense spiritual, and un- 
der our laws and institutions, when 
it attempts to do so it is acting out- 
side of its proper jurisdiction and do- 
main.” 
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