of the cemetery association. According 
to the latter’s report Jordan has failed 
to turn over to the county treasurer 
moneys he has collected from the sale 
of burial lots and other expenses in 
connection with the interment of the 
dead. The matter has been turned 
over to the grand jury for investiga- 
tion. It is stated that the peculations 
extend over a period of several years 
and that the amount runs into the 
thousands. 
The Cemetery Committee of Hermis- 
ton, Oregon, has decided to purchase a 
40 acre tract of government land in- 
stead of the property on which an op- 
tion had been taken. The decision was 
reached on account of the expense in- 
volved. 
Judge Bregy, on Feb. 9, in Common 
Pleas Court No. 1 , Philadelphia, Pa., 
appointed G. Albert Smyth and Orlando 
T. Carpenter receivers of the Somerton 
Hills Cemetery upon the application of 
Mrs. Anna W. S. Iveator, who holds 805 
shares of the .cemetery stock and is also 
the holder of a large amount of other 
securities. It was asserted by counsel 
that, although the cemetery was heavily 
indebted for money expended in the 
laying out and improvement of the 
grounds, it was not earning sufficient 
to meet the running expenses, and 
that no interest had been paid in more 
than a year upon its indebtedness, 
which amounted to $200,000 and upward. 
Reese Carpenter, president of the ceme- 
tery, consented to the appointment of 
the receivers to protect the interests of 
lot holders and creditors. 
In Charles Evans Cemetery, Read- 
ing, Pa., the total burials now number 
30,470. 
According to a recent report of the 
State Bureau of Inspection and Super- 
vision of Public Offices of Ohio, Wil- 
liam H. Townsend, gravedigger of the 
Abbottsville Cemetery, Van Buren town- 
ship, Darke county, for more than fifteen 
years, manipulated the accounts of the 
cemetery and in 1911 caused a shortage 
of $3,663.25. According to the report 
Townsend sold lots in the cemetery, dug 
graves, sold stone boxes, etc., and 
pocketed the money. Of the $3,633.25 
shortage more than half the amount, 
it is said, was entered upon the ceme- 
tery books, but both debited and 
credited and no cash returns made to 
the county clerk. 
W. P. Williams and others have filed 
suit and secured a temporary re- 
straining order enjoining Elisha 
Adams, J. R. Jacobs and M. He- 
bert, colored, from locating a negro 
cemetery at a point about three- 
quarters of a mile northwest of the 
city limits of Beaumont, Texas. It 
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is alleged the cemetery would become a 
nuisance and would cause property 
values thereabouts to depreciate. 
Among Southern cemeteries Metairie 
and Greenwood of New Orleans, La., 
have been developed to a high extent 
and have in them some of the finest 
monuments in the South, both public 
and private. Metairie has in recent 
years extended its space in an open park 
beyond the original area and is now pro- 
posing to clear and improve all of the 
old swamp space still further beyond 
and extending far towards Lake 
Pontchartrain. This will not be re- 
quired for cemetery purposes but will 
add a large park area and vastly im- 
prove the view as one passes along 
the great summer resorts which are 
also beautiful in winter, West End 
and Spanish Fort. 
As to which is entitled to the family 
burial lot when a husband and wife are 
divorced, may be decided as a result of 
a civil suit filed in the Wyandotte county 
district court, Kansas City, Mo., by 
William against Mrs. Lizzie Altwein and 
the Woodlawn Cemetery Company. He 
has alleged that he bought a lot in the 
cemetery in 1908 and paid $75 for it. He 
received a deed but never had it record- 
ed and gave it to his wife for safe 
keeping. Last month they were di- 
vorced and on January 29, he alleges, 
she took the soiled and mutilated deed 
to the secretary of the cemetery com- 
pany, and without mentioning the fact 
that they are now divorced, demanded 
and received a new deed which she had 
recorded, he says, in her name. Altwein 
demands that the lot be returned to 
him. 
Atlanta, Ga., is still figuring on the 
new cemetery idea, and the Holly- 
wood Cemetery Corporation, which 
has offered to sell its holdings to the 
city, has submitted another proposi- 
tion to the cemetery commission 
and the cemetery committee of coun- 
cil. The proposition includes the 
following points: There will be sold 
to the city 400 acres for $135,000, pay- 
able $15,000 in cash and the balance 
by the assumption of a bonded in- 
debtedness; second, the city will be 
given the right to also purchase 500 
additional acres for $98,000. 
The annual report of the trustees of 
cemeteries of Malden, Mass., showed 
that the total receipts for the sale of 
lots in Forestdale to date had been 
$118,181.63, and the amount received 
for perpetual care was $91,831.48. 
The internal dissension which 
seems to have characterized the ca- 
reer thus far of the new Roseland 
Park Cemetery, Detroit, Mich., is said 
to have ended by the complete with- 
25 
drawal of John Western, promoter 
and first secretary from all connec- 
tion with its affairs. It is now prom- 
ised that great improvements will 
now soon be under way. The officers 
are: President, DeWitt H. Taylor; 
vice president,' Dr. Angus McLean; 
secretary, A. A. Hare; treasurer, Ho- 
ratio S. Earle. 
Members of the Porterville, Calif., 
Cemetery Association have been as- 
sessed $5 each to defray the expenses 
of caring for the Cemetery. Affairs 
have come to the point where the sale 
of the lots is not sufficient to pay the 
regular expenses. Louis Badoux has 
been appointed secretary. 
The Lorain Coal & Dock Co., 
Bridgeport, O., has been sued for 
$20,000 damages by the Linwood 
Cemetery Association, which claims 
that the opening of the company’s 
newest mine adjoining the cemetery 
property has ruined it. 
Woodlawn Cemetery, Detroit, 
Mich., now has a total of 300 acres, 
having recently purchased 60 acres of 
adjoining land to the West; this new 
addition, which is high and gently 
rolling, has a frontage of nearly half 
a mile on the so-called Mill Road, 
also known as Livernois Ave., which 
in future will develop into a leading 
thoroughfare from the west side of 
Detroit to the north. Woodlawn also 
has a frontage of nearly two-thirds of 
a mile on the Eight Mile Road, while 
on Woodward Ave., the main and 
foremost avenue leading out of the 
center of Detroit, the frontage is over 
one-half mile. Four additional sec- 
tions, with the necessary drives, are 
being developed, comprising about 10 
acres. 
Some thirty acres of the 335 acres 
owned by the Mount Scott Park 
Cemetery Association, of Portland, 
Oregon, have been improved. Be- 
sides the grading of the sections and 
a large amount of planting, a substan- 
tial stone entrance and stone service 
building have been constructed, and 
plans have been prepared for a mod- 
ern chapel with crematorium and re- 
ceiving vault. The cemetery is loca- 
ted just outside the city limits and in 
a very picturesque location, admitting 
of beautiful landscape effects. All lots 
are sold under a perpetual care guar- 
antee, an ample percentage of the 
purchase price being set aside and se- 
cured for the purpose. It is stated 
that some $200,000 has been expended 
in its development, and it is equipped 
under modern ideas and require- 
ments. 
Like the “heathen Chinee,” the 
