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A receiver has been asked in the circuit court for 
Mount Auburn Cemetery, Lyons, 111 ., by Maurice Pulver, 
who declares there is due him from the cemetery associa- 
tion $4,012.88 on an unpaid judgment which he bought 
from P. A. Valentine. 
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It is announced that Cedar Grove Cemetery property, 
on the outskirts of Flushing, L. I., N. Y., which consists 
of 200 acres of land, has been sold to a New Jersey syn- 
dicate headed by Herman Walker, President of the Fair- 
view Cemetery Company, of Fairview, N. J. Tlie consider- 
ation is said to have been $750,000. The Cedar Grove Cem- 
etery property was purchased by a syndicate headed by J. 
P. Sloan, of Brooklyn, about 1897, and was immediately de- 
veloped for burial purposes. The land was purchased 
from John McAlpine, who was the first superintendent 
and a landscape architect. The new owners have already 
planned a number of improvements to the property. 
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The old negro cemetery in Dallas, Tex., has been 
closed to interments by order of the mayor. An order 
issued two years ago prohibiting interments there was 
not enforced and it is claimed that repeated burials are 
being made in the same graves. A city ordinance passed 
some years ago forbids laying out any more burial 
grounds within the city limits, and this will necessitate 
the establishing of a new cemetery for colored people 
outside of the city. 
Improvements and Additions. 
An ordinance has been passed by the city council of 
Monmouth, 111 ., for the appointment of a cemetery board 
of three members to receive, care for and invest funds 
for the perpetual care and improvement of the ceme- • 
tery ground. 
Women’s Clubs of Denison, Iowa, have raised $2,500 
for the purchase of the Denison Cemetery, and an asso- 
ciation has been formed to beautify the grounds. 
A new receiving vault has been presented to the Main 
Street Cemetery of Dalton, Mass., by the Crane family, 
and it is now in process of erection. 
The commissioners of Woodbrook Cemetery, Woburn, 
Mass., have been authorized by legislative act to acquire 
an additional tract of about sixteen acres. 
The German Evangelical Protestant Cemetery Association 
of Cincinnati is negotiating for the purchase of an addi- 
tional tract of sixty acres. The present area of the cemetery 
is sixty-eight acres. 
The government has recently acquired the tract of land 
known as Monument Hill near Greenville, Tenn., where 
Andrew Johnson was buried, and will survey and improve 
the tract in keeping with other National Cemeteries. The 
grounds include about fifteen acres. 
Plans have been adopted for the improvement of the en- 
trance to Erie Cemetery, Erie, Pa. 
A new fence and entrance gates have been erected at St. 
Mary’s Cemetery, Cortland, N. Y. The iron work was fur- 
nished by the Van Dorn Iron Works Co., at Cleveland, O. 
Oakhjll Cemetery, Newburyport, Mass., has purchased an 
additional tract of land. 
Concordia Cemetery, El Paso, Texas, has added thirty 
acres of adjoining territory. 
The United States government has purchased an addition 
of two acres to the Federal Cemetery, Richmond, Va. 
A new arch entrance gate and other improvements to cost 
$5,000 are planned for St. Rose Cemetery, Scranton, Pa. 
The city council of Alliance, Ohio, has passed an ordi- 
nance providing for the purchase and improvement of fif- 
teen acres of additional ground for the Alliance City Ceme- 
tery. 
Plans have been adopted for a new chapel and receiving 
tomb for Grove Cemetery, Belfast, Maine. It will be a 
stone structure 32x48 feet, and will be designed by L. C. 
Greenleaf, of Boston. 
Cedar Hill Cemetery, Newark, Ohio, has purchased a sev- 
enteen-acre tract for $5,100. 
A popular movement is on foot in Monmouth, 111 ., to- 
raise a fund of $5,000 for the improvement of Monmouth 
Cemetery. 
Oak Grove Cemetery, Manistee, Mich., has bought thirty 
acres of additional territory. 
The Cemetery Committee of New Britain, Conn., is con- 
sidering the erection of a new receiving vault in Fairview 
Cemetery, to cost between $7,000 and $8,000. 
Rose Hill Cemetery, Lamoni, la., plans to widen the cen- 
tral drive, place lot marks and erect a new entrance gate. 
A new gateway is under construction at the Baber Ceme- 
tery, Reading, Pa. 
Evergreen Cemetery, Stoughton, Mass., is raising a fund 
of $1,500 for the construction of a new receiving vault. 
Riverside Cemetery, Hannibal, Mo., is considering the erec- 
tion of a new arched entrance gate. 
Green Park Cemetery .A.ssociation, Portland, Ind., have 
under construction a cement block receiving vault to cost 
$850. It will have stone trimmings, a slate roof, and will 
be lined with glazed brick, the catacombs to be lined with 
two-inch Georgia marble. 
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New Cemeteries. 
The Peoria Hebrew Cemetery Association, of Peoria, 111 ., 
has been incorporated by Isaac Levinson, Moses Silberstein 
and William Cinofsky. 
The new Ridgelawn Cemetery, said to be the largest in 
the state, located between Nutley and Passaic, N. J., has 
opened and will be improved on the lawn plan as a modern 
and beautiful cemetery. The plans were made by Thomas 
B. Punshon, of Earnshaw & Punshon, of Cincinnati, and 
the work of improvement will be carried out by the super- 
intendent, John H. Shepard. 
The VanVoorheis Cemetery Company, of Douglas county, 
111 ., has been incorporated by John M. Worley, James Mc- 
Donald and Austin Breedlove. 
The Martinsburg Cemetery Company, of Martinsburg, O., 
has been incorporated by Chas. Elliott, W. S. Davis, David 
Bowman and others. 
A thirty-acre tract between Trucksville and Shavertown, 
Pa., has been purchased by Wilkesbarre interests and is 
now being laid out as Mt. Greenwood Cemetery. 
The Mt. Hope Cemetery Company has been formed at 
Topeka, Kan., and has taken over the abandoned site of the 
old Methodist University west of Seabrook. A. B. Whiting 
is the chief organizer of the company. 
