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The Evergreen Cemetery Association of Stoughton, Mass., 
will advance the amount of trust deposit for the perpetual care 
of lots, after November 1st. from $35, the present price, to ¥50. 
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A fund of $1,000 is being raised at West Corinth, Vt., the 
interest of which is to be devoted to the care of the upper ceme- 
tery of that village. 
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The 57th. annual meeting of the Garden Cemetery Associa- 
tion, Chelsea, Mass., was held October 4th. The permanent 
fund of the cemetery now amounts to $14,900, 
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By the will of the late Elizabeth F. Donnelly, St. Louis, 
Mo , $1,000 is bequeathed to Calvary Cemetery Association of 
De Soto, Mo. 
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A fund of $1,500 has been raised for the Missisquot Valley 
Cemetery Association, North Sheldon, Vt. The interest on the 
money is to be used to keep the cemetery in repair. 
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An effort to organize a “Ladies’ Cemetery Association” is 
being made at Wichita, Kan., for the purpose of putting High- 
land cemetery into better condition. This is known as the old 
cemetery. 
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A committee appointed by the Directors of Oak Dell ceme- 
tery, Westerly, R. I., to decide on the amount to be deposited 
by any one who wishes to create a fund for the perpetual care of a 
lot voted that $2 a year would take care of a lot one rod square. 
There has never been any provision made at this cemetery for 
the perpetual care of any of the lots. The amount appears in- 
sufficient even lor a small cemetery. 
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At the recent annual meeting of the Fort Edward and Sandy 
Hill Cemetery Association, New York, one of the trus- 
tees, whose name is withheld for the present, made the generous 
offer to build, immediately, at his own expense, 2,000 feet of 
iron fence similar in pattern to that on the front, one thousand 
feet along each of the two sides. The gift was accepted with 
gratitude and appreciation. 
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The building committee of Fair view cemetery, New Brit- 
ain, Conn., recently opened bids for the erection of a much 
needed office building at the entrance to the cemetery. The 
plans call for a brick building 18 feet by 26 feet and one story 
high. There will be a reception room, an office, toilet rooms 
and a fireproof vault in the building. The contract calls for its 
completion by December 1st. and the cost will be in the neigh- 
borhood of $2,000. 
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When William McAvoy, who was Surrogate of Hudson 
county, New Jersey, died several years ago his will provided 
that $1,000 should be given to the trustees of the Holy Name 
cemetery in Westside avenue, Jersey City, on condition that 
they keep the McAvoy plot in the cemetery in good condition 
perpetually. Bishop Wigger would not permit the trustees to 
accept the money with the condition attached, and recently John 
Edelstein, one of the executors, applied to Judge Blair, in the 
Orphans’ Court, for permission to deposit the $1,000 in a savings 
bank, with the understanding that the interest will be used for 
beautifying the McAvoy burial plot. Permission was granted. 
A city of Mexico exchange reports that a meeting of the 
committee appointed by General Clayton for the purpose of or- 
ganizing an American Cemetery Association was held Septem- 
ber 2nd. The committee practically decided in favor of the 
San Joaquin property as a site for the cemetery. It possesses 
many advantages on account of its fine location, its being 
walled in, well watered, etc , and the selection is certain to be 
generally approved. The meeting also agreed on a prospectus 
and plan of organization, to form the basis of subscriptions, for 
which a canvass is to begin immediately. The members of the 
committee present started the subscription with a total of 
$9,400. 
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The Ballou cemetery corporation is putting the gravestone 
in the old Ballou cemetery near Ashton, R. I., into better order. 
The corporation was granted at the last meeting of the town 
council of Cumberland $100 of the Ira B. Peck fund for this pur- 
pose. Ira B. Peck was a fermer resident of Woonsocket, R. I., 
and left the town of Cumberland $1,000, the interest whereof is 
to be spent in caring for the grave stones of cemeteries in the 
town of Cumberland, of which the old Ballou is one. The money 
is not to be spent in caring for the grounds, only the grave stone 
being mentioned in the will. Mr. Peck further provided that if 
certain of his heirs did not personally care for the Peck family 
lot and see that it was kept in good condition the property would 
revert to the Woonsocket hospital. 
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George T. Tilden, architect, Boston, has submitted to the 
building committee, plans and specifications for the new build- 
ing which the Exeter, N. H., Cemetery Association voted to 
erect at the last annual meeting. They call for a structure of 
brick, with ornamental trimmings, 27 feet long and 36 feet wide. 
A central partition will divide the interior into halves, each of 
which has an entrance and communication one with the other. 
The right half will be fitted out as a chapel and the left as a re- 
ceiving tomb. Both apartments will be sheathed in North Caro- 
lina pine, the ceiling of the chapel having a moulded cornice 
This room will have a hardwood floor, while the tomb will be 
floored in concrete. The cost of the structure will be about 
$2,500. 
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The Furber Memorial Chapel, erected in Forest Glade 
cemetery, Somersworth, N. H., to the memory of the late Hon 
James T. Furber and his deceased wife by their daughter, Mrs. 
John R. Poor of Lawrence, was dedicated early this month with 
simple but appropriate exercises. This event took place on the 
46th anniversary of the dedication of the cemetery. It stands on 
a spacious lot of nearly circular form, and is constructed of Law- 
rence seam-faced granite, with Vermont granite trimmings. 
The building is 22 } 4 ' X 32^'. The interior finishing is cypress, 
with polished surfaces. The walls are frescoed in warm tints. 
The stained glass window over the altar has an Easter lily design 
for its center piece. The pulpit set and the mourners’ seats are 
of heavy quartered oak. There is seating capacity for 70 persons. 
The building cost $10,000. Over the arched entrance is the in- 
scription: “I am the resurrection and the life.” Under the 
gothic window at the end of the building, on the left of the en- 
trance, is set a bronze memorial tablet, inscribed as follows: 
“Furber Memorial Chapel. The gift of Lizzie Jane Poor, to the 
Forest Glade Cemetery, in Loving Memory of her Father and 
Mother, James Thomas Furber, died January 27, 1892. Jane 
Roberts Furber, died February 12, 1863. Erected A. D. 1897.” 
Mr. Furber, who was for many years general manager of the 
Boston & Maine railroad, was a lifelong resident of Somers- 
worth, and was the town’s benefactor in many ways. 
