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3 =;k cemetery, pittsburg, kas. 
There was an old neglected cemetery 
adjoining the land purchased, the Hobson 
Cemetery, three acres in area. This the 
company purchased, although it was vir- 
tually filled up and no land left to sell. 
The place was overgrown with weeds and 
the monuments fallen down or out of 
order. In six w eeks last spring Mr. Camp- 
bell transformed this property — regraded 
the surface and made a beautiful lawn of 
the old weed and briar patch. He reset- 
many of the monuments and today it comes 
into the new property as a part of the 
modern cemetery that Pittsburg is to be 
proud of. The -changes made are shown 
by cuts 1 and 2. 
The entrance walls, now completed, are 
of poured concrete, and one hundred and 
fifty feet across and fifty feet across, facing- 
on Broadway. The height of the wall is four 
feet and the columns at gateway eight and 
one-half feet. The double entrance with 
parked space and flower bed between, is a 
feature that attracts many of Pittsburg’s 
citizens. The plans for the entrance with 
the planting is after the design prepared 
by Hare & Hare. 
The general plan of the cemetery is 
shown in the accompanying cut. The roads 
are macadamized, eighteen feet wide, and 
have a hard w'earing surface of “Joplin 
grit,’’ a kind of flint from the lead and 
zinc mines in Joplin. Trees and shrubs 
for half the ground have just been planted. 
The officers of Highland Park Cemetery 
are : President, O. L. Stamm ; Secretary, 
SAME SPOT IN HOBSON CEMETERY SIX WEEKS LATER (NOW A PART OF HIGHLAND PARK) 
SHOWING RESULT OF PERPETUAL CARE. 
