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$159,403.80 and the trust fund depos- 
its made for special and perpetual 
care of lots were $76,941.01, increas- 
ing this fund to $1,106,664.45. The 
general fund for the improvement 
and permanent care of the cemetery 
was increased by $125,982.61 and now 
reaches the great sum of $3,701,314.14. 
The total receipts for the year from 
all sources were $671,719.56, includ- 
ing the balance from 1907, and the 
total disbursements were $659,216.23. 
St. Paul’s and Salem German 
Lutheran Societies of Detroit, Mich., 
dedicated a new cemetery, called 
Gethsemane, September 26, 1907. The 
cemetery is situated on Gratiot ave- 
nue, four miles from the center of 
the city. It comprises thirty-eight 
acres. 
Graceland Park Cemetery, Sioux 
City, la., has been opened to the pub- 
lic. The whole plat comprises 128 
acres, of which 45 have been im- 
proved for interments,' as far as 
drives, avenues and drainage is con- 
cerned. The planting scheme will be 
pushed next spring. For perpetual 
care, 75 per cent of the sales of lots 
and graves is set aside, and “land- 
scape on the lawn plan” is to be the 
scheme of improvement and care. 
The Evergreen Cemetery Associa- 
tion of New Bedford, Pa., has been 
incorporated. A new cemetery is to 
he started to supply the need occa- 
sioned .by the condition of the two 
old cemeteries, now about full. 
The city government of Waltham, 
]\Iass., has appropriated $7,000 for the 
laying out of an addition to Mt. 
Feake Cemetery, which will provide 
300 new lots. 
Plymouth Rock Cemetery, Avon, 
Mass., is to be enlarged; the Ladies’ 
Auxiliary of Plymouth Rock Lodge, 
I. O. B. A., recently completed the 
purchase of an adjoining plot of land. 
Mr. L. P. Jensen, landscape gar- 
dener of Busch Place, St. Louis, Mo., 
has designed plans and will supervise 
the work on a 20-acre cemetery at 
Olustee, Okla., construction on which 
is to begin without delay. The rules, 
regulations, etc., will be the same as 
those advocated by the A. A. C. S. 
The Dilley Cemetery Association 
of Dilley, Tex., has been incorpo- 
rated. 
Mound Cemetery, Racine, Wis., 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The labor account amounted to $166,- 
386.96. The average number of men 
employed per month for the year 
was 256 and of horses 37. A large 
amount of repairing and improving 
was done during the year. Terracolio 
was tried over 1,357,768 superficial 
feet of roadways for the prevention 
of dust, with excellent results. The 
amount received for the care of the 
trust lots was the largest received 
in any one previous year. 
with its 15,000 interments, is practi- 
cally full, and the city has taken an 
option on another 80 acres of land 
at a cost of $12,000 for a new ceme- 
tery. 
Across the driveway from the new 
Fairview and Catholic cemeteries at 
Tipton, Ind., is an old burying ground 
containing the remains of numbers of 
the old pioneers of the place, and which 
had been allowed to run to decay. A 
movement was organized to clean it up, 
reset grave stones, etc., and re-establish 
locating of graves and burials, and much 
satisfaction is expressed .at the result. 
A good lesson for other communities. 
The Woman’s Club of Dixon, 111., 
having raised funds for the erection of 
a receiving vault in Oakwood cem- 
etery, a movement is on foot to pur- 
chase a large tract by public subscrip- 
tion for use in stormy weather. This 
is a good suggestion for the smaller 
cemeteries. 
The Ladies’ Cemetery Society, De- 
catur, Texas, is making an effort to 
prevent spoliation of the Woodland 
cemetery grounds by rabbits and dogs, 
by surrounding it with a suitable wire 
fence which the superintendent, Mr. 
Chas. Eschenbaum, has just completed. 
Messrs. lilills and Petrie, bankers of 
Ashton, 111., have recently presented the 
Ashton Cemetery Association with a 
brick receiving vault with a capacity of 
15 bodies. The cemetery is an old one 
which was purchased by an association 
of local business men, and has been im- 
proved to conform to modern ideas. 
Extensive improvements are under 
way in Greenwood cemetery, Muscatine, 
Iowa. 
The Women’s Historical Society of 
Nashville, Tenn., has raised the money 
for the Fifth avenue gate to the old 
City cemetery, work upon which began 
last month, and the Women’s Federation 
of South Nashville will soon begin 
work on the Memorial Gate, at Fourth 
avenue and Oak street, nearly all the 
money for which has been secured. 
A new receiving vault is to be erected 
in the local cemetery of Plainville, Conn., 
at a cost of $800. 
Annoyed at the condition of the 
Lenox Congregational cemetery, Lenox, 
Mass., Mr. Edward R. Wharton has of- 
fered to make improvements therein at 
a cost of $1,500. Mr. Wharton’s mother 
is buried here. 
Twenty acres has been added to 
Maple Hill cemetery, Cadillac, Mich., 
and it is intended to proceed with its 
improvement. 
The City cemetery of Gastonia, N. C., 
is to be enlarged by the addition of 
twenty acres. 
Perpetual care is guaranteed to lot- 
owners in Hillside cemetery, Tiverton, 
R. I., on payment to the treasurer of 
the sum of $100. A committee has been 
appointed to assess a tax for the year 
1909 against each lot already sold, for 
the purpose of keeping the lots and 
drives in good condition. 
During the past year the Oak Hill 
Cemetery Association of Lebanon, Ind., 
has expended $7,200 on beautifying the 
grounds, and is exulting in the claim 
of having the finest grounds in central 
Indiana. 
The mayor of Norfolk, Va., proposes 
to improve the city cemeteries by tear- 
ing out the fences about lots and sod- 
ding them. To effect this he would 
impose an annual tax of $2 upon every 
lot owner to be used in keeping up the 
cemeteries. 
Ten thousand feet of curbing and 
gutters are to be laid in Woodland 
cemetery, Des Moines, la., by order of 
the city council at a cost of some $5,000. 
The First Presbyterian Church of 
Springfield, N. J., will use a bequest of 
$600, left by the will of Thomas Den- 
man, in enlarging and improving its 
burial ground. 
On account of a disposition to use 
the cemetery roads for speed bursts 
the authorities of Evergreen Ceme- 
tery, Leominster, Mass., have e.xclud- 
ed both automobiles and bicycles 
from the cemetery grounds. 
Practical thanks for a timel}^ gift 
to the Little Silver Methodist Church, 
Red Bank, N. J., were expressed by 
the men of the congregation, who 
formed a “working bee” and cleared 
up the burial ground adjoining the 
church in preparation for the con- 
struction of a concrete boundary wall, 
the gift of Mr. Horace Harding, & 
summer resident. This gift was in 
addition to a piece of ground pur- 
chased and donated by the same gen- 
tleman. 
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