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OHIO ASSOCIATION AT TOLEDO 
The Ladies' Village Improvement So- 
ciety of Sag Harbor, L. I., N. Y., pro- 
poses to erect a stone and concrete fence 
about the cemetery. 
The Elmhurst Cemetery Co., Joliet, 
III, has been incorporated with a capi- 
tal stock of $150,000 by J. N. Schuster, 
Joseph W. Campbell and Clifton W. Jor- 
dan. 
Williamsport Cemetery, Williamsport, 
Pa., will build a new iron fence around 
the cemetery and make other improve- 
ments with a fund of $2,500. 
The Board of Public Works of Elk- 
hart, Ind., has recommended an appro- 
priation of $2,500 to construct a retain- 
ing wall along the Elkhart river front 
of Grace Lawn Cemeter}-. 
The Meridian Cemetery Association 
of Cline, Okla., has been incorporated 
at $1,000 by C. C. Lancaster, T. S. 
Whisenhunt and others. 
Mt. Olivet Cemeter}', Dubuque, la., 
will erect a new receiving vault this 
season. 
Rienzi Cemetery, Fond du Lac, Wis., 
has let the contract for new entrance 
gates to Robert Powrie. The entrance 
will Include massive stone posts of Ken- 
tucky Oolitic limestone and will cost 
about $600. 
Griggsville Cemetery, Griggsville, ill., 
has been incorporated by L. W. McMa- 
hon, L. J. Harvey and C. T. Kenney. 
Calvary Cemetery, Holyoke, Mass., 
has let the contract to P. J. Kennedy 
for the improvement of a new section to 
contain 300 lots. 
Rockford Cemetery xYssociation, -Rock- 
ford, 111., has recently passed the fol- 
lowing rule. “Hereafter no copings or 
corner posts shall be erected in the 
cemetery and the sexton is authorized 
to lower all corner posts to the grade 
of the sod. In special cases this board 
will consider petitions for copings 
around isolated lots.” 
The Rovey Cemetery, Farmersville, 
111., has been incorporated by William 
R. Rovey, Reinhard Euchs, J. O. Brown- 
ing. 
The United German and French Cath- 
■olic Cemetery Association of Buffalo, N. 
Y., will spend $150,000 on improve- 
ments to its grounds at Pine Hill. 
The Anaconda Cemetery Association, 
.Anaconda, Mont., has incorporated and 
will make improvements in the grounds 
and e-mploy a sexton for six months in 
the year. 
Warsaw, O., has bought a seven acre 
tract and will lay out a new cemetery to 
be known as Valley View. E. Z. Hays 
is clerk of the association. 
The Odd Fellows Cemetery, Santa 
Cruz, Cal., will add four acres of ad- 
joining territory. 
The annual convention of the Ohio 
.Association , of Cemetery Suj)erintend- 
ents and Officials will be held at the 
Southern Hotel, Toledo, June 23 and 
24. Invitations have been set to a large 
number throughout the state and a good 
attendance with a substantial increase in 
membership is e.xpected. 
The program is as follows : 
Tuesday, June 23rd, 10 a. m. : Wel- 
come address by Mayor Whitlock and 
response by H. .A. Cliurch ; roll call ; 
application and reception of new mem- 
bers ; address of president ; secretary’s 
report ; communications ; secretary's half 
hour receiving fees and dues: appoint- 
ment of committees on resolutions, aud- 
iting and location. 
At the close of the morning session 
special cars will be taken for Woodlawn 
Cemetery, where lunch will be servefl. 
.After lunch take car for Calvary and 
Forest Cemeteries, then to Walbridge 
Park to inspect “Zoo," etc. 
Evening Session, 8 o'clock : Report 
of J. C. Cline, delegate to the National 
Convention at Providence, R. 1.: paper 
Daniel J. Callahan, superintendent of 
Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb., 
was sentenced l:>y Judge Sears in the 
criminal court to pay a fine of $2,500. 
for making burials in occupied graves, 
a motion for a new trial being over- 
ruled. This is the minimum sentence 
that could be imposed. After imposing 
the fine Judge Sears suspended it for 
twenty days in order to allow Callahan 
time to have his appeal bond approved 
by the supreme court. After this was 
done he was released on his old bond. 
.An appeal will be taken at once to the 
supreme court. In overruling Calla- 
han's motion for a new trial Judge 
Sears said he found himself in that con- 
dition of mind that he would be almost 
glad to have found error in the record so 
he could grant a new trial. “I have no 
doubt,” said the court, “that Judge Bald- 
win, president of the association, gave 
the orders to lower 'any body found 
in the digging of a grave and that those 
instructions were passed on to the sub- 
ordinates.” 
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Unless some further legal proceedings 
can check the movement, the Roman 
Catholic diocese of Newark, N. J., which 
includes all tht part of New Jersey north 
by 1. N. Smith, of Greenville, Ohio, 
subject, “.An .Ancient and Modern Bur- 
ial”: discussion of same: question box: 
nomimition of officers. 
Wednesda}', June 24th, 10 a. m. : Pa- 
per by R. B. Woodward, of Somerset, 
Ohio, subject, “Educating Our Patrons 
in Burial and Cemetery Subjects:” dis- 
cussion of same : reports of committees : 
unfinished l)usiness : election of officers. 
.Afternoon : .At the close of the morn- 
ing session special car will be taken to 
Toledo Beach for dinner. After dinner, 
bathing and boating on Lake Erie. Re- 
turn to Toledo for evening session, 
leaving ladies on the way at the Casino 
to return to headquarters by special car 
after show is out. 
Evening Session, 8 o'clock : Papers ; 
(ILscussion of same : question box. 
The Executi\'e Committee is as fol- 
lows : John Perrin, President, “Wood- 
lawn,” Toledo: W. R. Renz, “Forest,” 
Toledo : .Henry Bresser, “Calvary,” To- 
ledo : John J. .Stephens, “Greenlawn,” 
Columbus. 
of the Raritan river, will estaldish in 
North Arlington its largest cemetery on 
203 acres of land which it recently 
bought in that borough at a cost of 
about $200,000. The borough common 
council and local board of health had 
refused to grant the diocese permission, 
but that v^erdict was set aside by a 
decision of the state board of health in 
a hearing on the appeal taken by tlie 
Roman Catholic Diocese of Newark 
from the ruling made by the local au- 
thorities. John AI. Bell, who appeared 
for the borough, based his argument 
against the proposed cemetery mainly 
upon the contentions that it was op- 
posed b}- residents of the borough, and 
upon the law limiting the number of 
cemeteries within cities, towns or town- 
ships to three. It was not contended 
that it was dangerous from a sanitary 
point of view. The judge ruled that 
two of the cemeteries in the townshi|i 
were one and that this one would not 
therefore exceed the legal number. 
State Senator Wakclee's bill to eli- 
minate appeals to the State Board of 
Health when permission to establish 
■a cemetery was refused by local authori- 
ties, was shortly before defeated in the 
legislature by a vote of 8 to 'I'hc 
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