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Va., and have the plans for Cartago Ceme- 
tery, Costa Rica, ready, which they have 
been working on for some time. An inter- 
esting feature of the plans for this ceme- 
tery is that future burials will be in the 
ground instead of in catacombs. 
Chancellor J. B. Newman recently hand- 
ed down a decree in the case of the Alt. 
Olivet Cemetery Company of Nashville, 
Tenn., against Davidson County, in which 
he made permanent an injunction against 
any agents of the county attemtping to col- 
lect tax assessments for the year 1915. It 
is held that the complainant is exempted 
under the laws. County Attorney T. J. 
AIcAIorrough has asked an appeal to the 
Supreme Court. 
The Eastern Alausoleum Company of 
Niagara Falls, N. Y., has disposed of its 
building, including all tenantless crypts in 
Oakwood Cemetery to the Oakwood Ceme- 
tery Association of that city. 
The annual report of Greenwood Ceme- 
tery, of Decatur, 111., for the year ending 
Alarch 31, 1917, shows a balance for the 
year of $7,273.15. The total of the various 
trust funds given to the association for the 
care of the family lots of the donors is 
now $5,300, made up of sums ranging from 
$50 to $500. 
Twenty acres of land located near 
Five Points, south of Waukegan, III., were 
recently purchased from Henry G. Heiting 
by the Alodern Cemetery & Nlausoleum 
Company. The tract of twenty acres is the 
first purchase of land made of an intended 
eighty acre tract of land which the com- 
pany intends to occupy. 
New Cemeteries and Improve- 
ments 
Irving Park Boulevard Cemetery, Chi- 
cago, was recently incorporated with a 
capital of $10,000 by Charles E. Selleck, 
George H. Kiehm and Street Lightfoot. 
The Alercer Hillside Cemetery Associa- 
tion, organized and operated by women of 
Alercer, N. D., has been incorporated. The 
directors are Anetta Z. AIcFadden, Ger- 
trude AI. Rice and Lillian C. Plowman. 
Calvary Cemetery Association, Galves- 
ton, Tex., will erect a new fence around the 
cemetery and plant oleanders and cedars. 
The Locust Valley Cemetery Associa- 
tion of Locust Valley, N. Y., was recently 
incorporated. The directors are Edwin C. 
AVeeks, Andrew J. Hutchinson, Charles J. 
Baldwin and others. 
new ornamental fence is being placed 
around the Plainview Cemetery, Plain- 
view, Tex , as a result of the activity of the 
Cemetery Association, of which Airs. L. 
Lee Dye is chairman. The name of the 
cemetery, laid in .gold leaf, will he put over 
the entrances. 
A commercial club committee consisting 
of E. B. Finch, S. A. D. Henline and 
R. W. Bodinson will have charge of the 
work in securing improvements at the 
Kearney Cemetery, Kearney', Neb. It is 
the plan of the committee to ask the city 
for aid, a bill having just passed the state 
legislature giving authority to cities of this 
size to issue up to a five mill levy for ceme- 
tery purposes. Besides the lieautifying of 
the cemetery grounds, it is planned to im- 
prove the highways leading to the grounds 
Iw the paving of the streets and laying of 
hard serx ice road beds. 
J. AV. Orr as president of the Alt. Ver- 
non Cemetery Association, Hutchison, 
Kan., is planning many improvements for 
Alt. Vernon this summer. Hare & Hare 
of Kansas City, have been engaged as the 
landscape architects. 
Cemetery Officers Etected 
The Fairview Cemetery Association of 
Niotaze, Kan., has elected George C. Dye 
president, and Edna Rowe, secretary. 
At the annual meeting of the Oak Grove 
Cemetery Association, Grass Lake, Alich., 
J. Alartin Rohrer was elected president, 
and George Preston, clerk and treasurer. 
At the annual meeting of the Ottumwa 
Cemetery' Association, Ottumwa, la., the 
following officers were re-elected: A. H. 
Hamilton, president; Leroy Christie, secre- 
tary and superintendent ; Henry S. Aler- 
rick, treasurer. The secretary's report 
shows that lot sales and deposits and 
amounts from single graves increased the 
perpetual care fund from $17,046.85 to 
$18,314.85 during the past year. The day 
laborers’ work in the cemetery amounted 
to $1,1192.97. There were 181 interments 
made. There are now 75,984 square feet 
of lots ready for use. The total net assets 
of the association are $22,050.72. There 
is $6,500 worth of real estate not in the 
cemetery and $5,250.75 not platted. Lots 
amount to $3,890, personal property $1,000, 
supplies $314.77 and accounts $5,086.20. 
Glendale Cemetery' Association of Alon- 
mouth. 111., has re-elected all of its old 
officers. J. W. Sipher is president and Airs. 
Ada Turnbull secretary. The treasurer’s 
statement shows that a sum of over $3,000 
is now in the endowment fund for the per- 
petual upkeep of the cemetery. One year 
ago the association increased from 10 per 
cent to 20 per cent, the amount to be set 
aside for the endowment fund from the 
receipts for the sale of lots. It was voted 
to make more improvements in Glendale 
this summer. Several carloads of gravel 
will be distributed in the driveways, and 
the lots along the east side of the cemetery 
will be raised several inches and terraced, 
and additional shrubbery set out. 
Tarvia Booklets 
The Barrett Company, manufacturers of 
“Tarvia,’’ have issued some very interesting 
booklets descriptive of this road material 
and its use. One general booklet de- 
scribes the product and its uses in general; 
another entitled, “How a Tarvia Alacadam 
Roadway Is Constructed,” is a detailed 
illustrated description of the construction 
of a piece of roadway. Every step in the 
construction of a Tarvia roadway is de- 
scribed in detail and clearly illustrated in 
a series of fine pictures. Other booklets 
are devoted respectively to “Tarvia B” and 
“Tarvia X.” 
your trees. 
Do you Avonder that 
we have such a de- 
mand for them ? 
European and Cri- 
m e a n Linden, 
straight trunked and 
high branched, for 
Park and Cemetery 
planting. 
We also carry a full line of 
shrubs, evergreens and field 
grown herbaceous stock. 
SEND FOR NEW 
SPRING CATALOGUE 
Thomas B. 
Meehan Co. 
ff^holesale Nurserymen 
Dresher, Pennsylvania 
