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merits : Operation and maintenance, $49,- 
695.31; salaries, $18,71570; for labor on 
trust fund lots and graves, $11,130. Re- 
ceipts: From sale of lots, $39,628.50; in- 
terments, $31,937.20; myrtle and special 
care account, $28,285.50; total receipts from 
sale of lots, $101,401.20; receipts from 
ground rents, $30,833.98; total receipts, 
$166,163.98; total receipts with balance, 
$171,947.97. Directors for the ensuing year 
were elected as follows : For three-year 
terms, Edward Goepper, J. V. B. Scarbor- 
ough and Frank J. Jones ; for two years, 
Arthur Espy. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
The four-acre woodland addition to Oak- 
dale Cemetery, Asheville, N. C., has been 
cleared and sown and the ground will soon 
be laid out into lots for sale. 
The Butler Center Cemetery Association 
was recently incorporated at Butler, N. Y. 
The directors are Warren Henderson, Abel 
Wing and George Vincent, all of Butler. 
The company proposes to buy additional 
land for cemetery purposes. 
The “Washelli” (Indian word signifying 
place of rest) Cemetery, of Seattle, Wash., 
is now ready for interments. The grounds 
are being developed by the Necropolis Com- 
pany at a reported cost of $250,000. 
Reconstruction of the chapel of the 
Mount Scott Park Cemetery, Portland, 
Ore., recently damaged by fire, will be 
commenced soon. The building is to be 
used for a crematorium, office and chapel. 
An association was recently organized at 
Esgate, la., to care for and improve Es- 
gate Cemetery. 
An appropriation of $250 has been made 
for the purpose of improving the Confed- 
erate Cemetery at Johnson’s Island, Ohio. 
4 he Long’s Run Cemetery Association 
was recently incorporated at East Liver- 
pool, Ohio, by John P. Montgomery and 
others. 
A new addition is being surveyed for 
Hickory Grove Cemetery, Laurel, Miss. 
Devore Cemetery was recently incorpo- 
rated at Delevan, 111. The incorporators 
are: Joseph Devore, Mrs. Ella Berchtold, 
John Canopy, Hiram Oldham, Mrs. Annie 
Devore, Mrs. Mary Vandyke, Mrs. Emma 
Bertram and F. E. Canopy. 
Application for a charter for the Chester 
View Cemetery Co. was made to the Dau- 
phin County Court at Harrisburg, Pa., a 
short time ago. The capital is fixed at $50,- 
000 and the incorporators are W. Dale 
Sheaffer, E. M. Klucker, Lewis O’Donnell, 
C. W. Hyde and H. D. Gardner. 
The Oakland Cemetery Association, of 
St. Paul, Minn., has asked this city to ap- 
propriate the land surrounding the cem- 
etery, to be improved and beautified into 
an addition to the cemetery. 
The Mound Grove Cemetery Associa- 
tion, of Kankakee, 111., has recently 
cleaned up and improved the part of the 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
grounds known as Potters Field, and this 
part of the cemetery will receive perpetual 
care in the future. 
The beautiful new wrought iron fence 
around Greenwood Cemetery, Salena, 111., 
has been completed. The construction of 
the fence, which is 1,752 feet long and 
cost $2,919.17, was under the entire charge 
of the Woman’s Auxiliary Association. 
Pleasant View Cemetery, of Kewanee, 
111., has ' been greatly improved in appear- 
ance as a result of the work this season. 
About the most notable improvement is 
the paving of all the roads. 
About twelve receiving vaults have been 
completed in Parklawn Cemetery, Waco, 
Tex., and work will soon be commenced 
on the new chapel. The grounds are being 
improved under the system of landscape 
gardening. 
The city administration of Joplin, Mo., 
has greatly improved Fairview Cemetery 
by grading the roadways, painting the fence 
and the planting of flower beds. 
The work of laying out new lots in the 
south addition to Pleasant View Cemetery, 
Kewanee, 111., was recently commenced by 
City Engineer Harry Stokes. The new sec- 
tion comprises more ground than the older 
part of the cemetery. 
Directors of the Oakdale Cemetery As- 
sociation, Davenport, la., recently opened 
the last unsold portion of the cemetery, the 
improvement of which has just been com- 
pleted at a cost of $7,000. The new tract 
is fifteen acres in area and lies at and to 
the east of the main entrance to the cem- 
etery. 
The W. F. Shaffer Realty Co., of Wheel- 
ing, W. Va., has secured an option on the 
Hugh Clark estate, adjoining Greenwood 
Cemetery, and are organizing a company 
of local outside parties to improve and 
open a modern cemetery. 
The new lodge built by the Woodland 
Cemetery Association, of Quincy, 111., at 
the entrance to the cemetery is nearly com- 
pleted. The new building, coated with 
stucco, is two stories and certainly a hand- 
some improvement, a credit to the associa- 
tion and an ornament to* Woodland Cem- 
etery. 
Extensive nlans for beautifying the Citv 
Cemetery, of Nashville, Tenn.. have been 
made by Superintendent Charles A. Marlin. 
The work of cleaning un the Maberrv 
Cemetery, of Carrollton, 111.,, has recently 
been undertaken by an association organ- 
ized by the ladies of that neighborhood. 
The Chester View Cemetery Association 
was recently granted a charter of incorpo- 
ration by the court at Harrisburg, Pa. 
The Crown PTill Cemetery Association 
was recently incorporated at Prospect, Pa. 
The officers are A. P. Starr, J. B. Dick and 
J. E. Forsythe. 
St. Adelbert’s Cemetery property, of St. 
Adelbert’s Parish, East St. Louis. 111., was 
recently dedicated with impressive cere- 
monies in which the Rev. Henry Althoff, 
D. D., bishop of Belleville, participated. 
To improve the neglected cemetery lo- 
cated on the Geneva road, the citizens of 
Pleasant Prairie, Wis., recently organized 
the Vale Cemetery Association. The trus- 
tees named were George McNeil, Albert 
Barter and Mrs. Frederick Barter. 
Oakland Cemetery, of Danville, 111., has 
been greatly improved by the erection of 'an 
ornamental iron fence upon a stone base 
around the grounds. 
Work has been commenced by Contractor 
C. B. Milligan on the new rest house at 
Hillside Cemetery, Marshfield, Wis. 
The rest house at Mound Cemetery, Ra- 
cine, Wis., for which $3,000 was appro- 
priated, is rapidly nearing completion and 
will soon be ready. 
Berea Cemetery Co. has been incorpo- 
rated at Berea, Ky., by T. P. Osborne, J. 
W. Stephens and W. F. Kidd. 
A receiving vault which is to be built at 
Eveleth Cemetery, Virginia, Minn., will add 
toward beautifying the grounds of this 
cemetery. 
The cost of recent improvements made 
at Holy Cross Cemetery, Lincoln, 111., has 
been entirely subscribed for by the mem- 
bers of St. Patrick’s Church. The im- 
provement consists of a new iron fence 
with large brick pillars and new gravel 
roads. 
Alderman John W. Daniels, chairman of 
the Committee on Public Grounds and 
Buildings, has been instrumental in install- 
ing a new set of records for the City Cem- 
etery, of Freeport, 111. 
Oakwood Cemetery Association, of Waco, 
Tex., is agitating the erection of a new 
entrance gate. 
Members of the State Line Cemetery As- 
sociation, Texarkana, Ark., are soliciting 
funds to be used to employ a sexton to 
care for and improve the entire cemetery. 
A resolution was adopted by the Com- 
mission Council recently authorizing the 
purchase of 60.9 acres of land from H. C. 
Rogers, of Oshkosh, Wis., for the purpose 
of increasing the size of Riverside Cem- 
etery at a cost of $300 an acre. 
Through the terms of an agreement 
reached a short time ago between Bishop 
Keiley and officers of the Lawton Terrace 
Co., of Havannah, Ga„ the Catholic Cem- 
etery of that city has been increased 2.17 
acres. 
Members of the fourth degree. Knights 
of Columbus, Waco, Tex., at a recent 
meeting organized an association to look 
after the improvement of Holy Cross Cem- 
etery. 
John T. Fletcher and his associates have 
purchased the old Springer place east of 
Columbus, Ga., better known as the Foley 
Greenhouse place, and are considering turn- 
ing it into- a private cemetery. The tract 
of land contains about forty-five acres of 
ground, well drained and shaded. 
