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Green Bay, recently adopted resolutions 
condemning the holding of some Sun- 
day funerals and the public viewing of 
remains. 
At Los Angeles, Cal., the undertakers 
have agreed to refust to take charge 
of funeral services on Sunday. 
At the convention of the ministers of 
Schuylkill County, Pa., the ministers 
agreed to refuse to act at Sunday .in- 
terments and adopted resolutions against 
ostentation and demonstration of any 
sort. 
At Elmira, N. Y., the ministers agreed 
A Kansas cemetery superintendent 
writes for information concerning the 
best method of getting rid of dande- 
lions, which he says have “pretty well 
taken the cemeteries” there. 
Henry Field, seedsman, of Shenan- 
doah, Iowa, has a new preparation in 
powder form which he claims will kill 
dandelions without injuring the grass, 
and in addition to the chemicals which 
have been advertised in these pages, we 
reprint herewith some previous corres- 
pondence on this subject which ap- 
peared in Park and Cemet'ery, 
The late Superintendent David 
Woods of “Homewood," Pittsburg, ad- 
vised cutting them out by the roots. H. 
Wilson Ross, of Newton Center, Mass., 
gives the same advice, and adds ; “Other 
methods of using acids, etc., take just 
The annual report of the North Burial 
Ground. Providence, R. 1., includes a 
large index map of the grounds, a lisi 
of lot owners with locations of their 
lots, forms for deeds, etc., rules ai.d 
regulations and suggestions as to the 
advantages of perpetual care. The ad- 
ditions to this fund during the year 
amounted to $10,49.5, making a total of 
$214,289. These were 684 intermenis 
during the year and tlie total number 
since 1848 is 31,726. The total ex- 
penditures for the year were $39,032. 
Calvary Cemetery, Fond du Lac, 
Wis., expended $1,086 during the year. 
There were 104 interments. The per- 
petual care fund amounts to $1,042. The 
association will this year finish up the 
three acre addition opened last year. 
Drives will be built and trees planted. 
The annual report of Richard Lawes, 
superintendent of the Utica Cemetery 
Association, Utica, N. Y., shows expen- 
ditures for the year of $23,216. The 
permanent care fund amounts to $145,- 
that a combined effort be made to do 
away with funerals on that day. 
The Catholic clergy have joined the 
undertakers, liverymen and their driv- 
ers of East St. Louis in their endeavors 
to discourage Sunday funerals. 
At Janesville, Wis., the ministers and 
undertakers have signed an agreement 
not to officiate at funerals on Sunday, 
while at Lansing, Mich., the Ministerial 
Union adopted resolutions recommend- 
ing dispensing with Sunday funerals and 
agreeing further to present the subject 
from tlieir pulpits to their people. 
as much time and give no better re- 
sults.” 
Superintendent Frank Enrich of 
“Woodlawn,” Detroit, says: “I am of 
the opinion that, generally speaking, 
we can't get rid of them entirely on 
large areas. We dig out large quanti- 
ties annually, endeavor to keep them in 
check somewhat by constant mowing, 
but have given up the idea of ever get- 
ting entirely rid of them." 
John iM. Boxell, superintendent “Oak- 
land," St. Paul, writes : “In my expe- 
rience, the best way to get rid of dan- 
delions is to remove the plants by cut- 
ting the roots three or four inches be- 
low the surface with an asparagus 
knife, and allow none to go to seed 
within tlie grounds. If not cut deep 
enougli the}- will sprout up again witli 
several heads instead of one." 
208. There were 522 interments for the 
year, 404 foundations built, and 101 lots 
sold and 70,465 square feet of ground 
seeded. 
At the annual meeting of the Franklin 
Cemetery Company, Franklin, Pa., the 
board of managers were authorized to 
purchase an addition of 12 acres. The 
total assets of tlie company amount to 
$14,605. Cyrus D. Phipps, who entered 
upon his 25th year as superintendent, re- 
ports 151 interments during the year. 
There have been 2,311 interments in the 
24 years of Mr. Phipps’ superintendency. 
The annual report of tht Mt. Hope 
Cemetery Corporation, Bangor, Me., 
tells of the resignation of Superintendent 
Cole and the election of Reuben E. 
Hathorne to take his place. The execu- 
tive committee has recently contracted 
for the erection of a new administration 
ljuilding to cost $10,000. The expendi- 
tures for the year were $5,131 and the 
trust fund amounts to $51,031. 
REGULATING BILLBOARDS 
( Conthiued frotn page 324^ 
vertising is of a permanent nature to 
require the payment of such a license 
tax as shall defray the e.xpense of an- 
nual inspection thereof. 
“Sec. 4. The said cities and towns 
shall have power to collect said license 
taxes as debts are by law collectible, 
with appropriate penalties for delay in 
payment. They shall also have power 
to fix and collect as debts are by law 
collectible a penalty of not more than 
one hundred dollars ( $100.00 ) for each 
erection of outdoor advertising in dis- 
regard of regulation made under the 
authority of this act and to immediate- 
ly remove any such outdoor advertis- 
ing erected in disregard of such regu- 
lations, or for which the license taxes 
imposed by the same authority have not 
been paid. And all officers duly ap- 
pointed by the city and town councils 
under this act shall have a right to 
enter upon premises where such adver- 
tising is displayed, for the purpose of 
inspection and for the purpose of en- 
forcing the ordinances created there- 
under.’’ 
IMPROVEMENTASSOCIATIONS 
{Continued from i>age 325) 
At the recent annual meeting of the 
Village Improvement Society of East- 
hampton. Mass., plans were made to 
secure systematic action in the disposal 
of rubbish and a committee appointed 
to report on the establishment of public 
playgrounds. The flower committee 
was given $35 for prizes for the chil- 
dren in their annual flower show. The 
following officers were chosen : Presi- 
dent, J. H. Sawyer ; vice-president, G. 
B, Noble; clerk, C. H, Johnson, treas- 
urer, G. S. Buckner. 
One thousand two hundred and forty- 
one packages of flower seeds were dis- 
tributed among the school children of 
Albuquerque, N. M., by the seed com- 
mittee of the Ci\'ic Improvement League 
as the first installment of the seed the 
league expects to give the children to 
help beautify the cit\’. 
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Cass Gilbert, architect, and Frederick 
Law Olmsted, landscape architect, have 
been employed by the City Beautiful 
Commission of New Haven, Conn,, to 
prepare plans and report on a compre- 
hensive system of civic improvement 
for that city. 
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The Playgrounds Association of 
Scranton, Pa., is to sell 10,000 buttons 
to raise funds for the establishing of 
playgrounds. 
GETTING RI.D OF DANDELIONS 
FROM the CEMETERY REPORTS 
