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CEHETERY NOTES 
The city of Quincy, 111., will act as 
trustee of the Woodland Cemetery as- 
sociation after the State Savings, Loan 
and Trust company, the present trustee, 
ceases to exist, providing a clause is 
inserted in the petition giving the city 
the right to name the trustee in case 
it does not care to act when the time 
comes. The association declares that 
a perpetual fund of $50,000 will event- 
ually he raised and used to maintain the 
cemetery, which will be more than suffi- 
cient and the city will never be required 
to furnish funds for the care of the 
cemetery. 
Decrees appointing temporary receiv- 
ers for the Woodlawn Cemetery and 
the Woodlawn Sales Company of Balti- 
more, Md., were signed by Judge Rose 
in August and were received August 
10 in the clerk’s office of the United 
States District Court, Baltimore. The 
cemetery company was incorporated in 
February, 1902, without capital stock. 
It has expended $300,000 in developing 
the grounds of 398 acres near Gwynn 
Oak Park. Its assets are nominally 
$1,121,387 and liabilities $315,864. 
The Council of Shreveport, La., is 
taking steps to secure more ground for 
cemetery purposes. The city is having 
some trouble with vandals who have 
been damaging monuments and tomb- 
stones in Oakland Cemetery. The local 
police have been instructed to find and 
arrest them. 
The report of the sale of the Druid 
Ridge Cemetery, Baltimore, Md., con- 
sisting of 188 acres, was filed August 
9 in the Circuit Court at Towson, by 
the receivers, in which it is shown that 
the property was sold to J. H. Rhoads 
for $205,000, subject to certain condi- 
tions. The report also shows that the 
property was offered for sale at auc- 
tion and withdrawn at a bid of $200,- 
000. Judge Duncan signed an order 
ratifying the sale, unless cause to the 
contrary be shown before September 
10 . 
The New Jersey State Board of 
Equalization of Taxes canceled the as- 
sessment for 1911 made by the city of 
Camden on the property of the Har- 
leigh Cemetery Association. The as- 
sociation claimed exemption under an 
act which omits from taxation grave- 
yards not exceeding ten acres of ground. 
The Board also was asked to cancel 
the assessment for 1910, but it held that 
the appeal for that exemption was not 
filed in the time limit. 
After many months of consideration 
and effort a working plan has been 
evolved by which the two cemeteries 
in Boone, la., shall be merged and es- 
tablished as Linwood Park Cemetery. 
A report from Washington, D. C, of 
August 14, stated that the Indian Af- 
fairs Committee of the Flouse had re- 
ported the bill prohibiting removal of 
Huron Cemetery, in Kansas City, Kan. 
This is the first encouragement in several 
years that has come to the three sisters, 
the Misses Conley, descendants of the 
once powerful Wyandotte tribe, in their 
fight to prevent what they term a des- 
ecration of the graves of their ancestors. 
The ground was given to the Wyandotte 
Indians in the early fifties, when it 
was said not to be worth a good pony. 
Owing to the death of Samuel Lein- 
bach, Turbotville, Pa., recently, one of his 
heirs has appeared in court at Sunbury, 
and started proceedings for the division 
of a cemetery which Leinbach owned at 
Turbotville. There are twenty-three 
heirs. The cemetery contains over five 
acres. 
On August 19 the San Francisco 
Supervisors adopted by a vote of six- 
teen to one, the resolution of inten- 
tion declaring the purpose of the board 
to remove the cemeteries on the ground 
that their further maintenance is detri- 
mental to the public health, and noti- 
fying persons interested to remove their 
dead within the next six months. In 
taking this action the board disregarded 
the opposition of the women of the 
California Women’s Club and the Out- 
door Art League and their alternative 
proposition that the cemeteries be pre- 
served as memorial parks. 
ADDITIONS AND IMPROVE- 
MENTS 
Riverside cemetery, Sault Ste. Marie, 
Mich., which until recently has been 
considerably hampered for funds, is 
now receiving better attention, and pre- 
sents a more attractive appearance. The 
water works system is now complete 
and the gasoline engine which pumps 
water from the river is of sufficient 
power to keep the water supply of the 
cemetery adequate at all times. As the 
cemetery is gradually becoming filled 
the cemetery board is considering the 
proposition of adding more property 
to it. The city owns property south 
of the present location, which is being 
cleared and laid out into lots. 
Members of the Cemetery Commis- 
sion of Racine, Wis., are giving earnest 
consideration to a number of improve- 
ments in Mound Cemetery. A new 
chapel is needed to replace the old and 
inadequate building and it is possible 
that a memorial chapel may be erect- 
ed by a lot owner. A rest house is to 
be erected on the East side of the cem- 
etery, and a new and appropriate en- 
trance to the grounds is talked of. 
Between 18,000 and 19,000 persons are 
buried in Mound Cemetery, but indica- 
tions are that it will be used for genera- 
tions yet. 
The directors of Woodlawn cemetery 
Champaign, 111., recently awarded the 
contract for $5,000 worth of work on the 
drives, to John W. Stipes. Work will 
commence at once. All drives will be 
either graveled or concreted and will 
be curbed. At the steep places lead- 
ing from the drives steps will be made. 
The two cemeteries located in the 
village of Antwerp, N. Y., known as 
the old town cemetery and Hillside, have 
been receiving much needed improve- 
ments the past summer. The work is 
under the supervision of the town 
board of Antwerp and the officers of 
Hillside cemetery. Some 1,500 feet of 
permanent fencing will be erected and 
a number of gates set at appropriate 
places. 
The St. Mary Cemetery Association, 
Utica, N. Y., has secured from Superin- 
tendent of Buildings, a permit to erect 
a concrete block receiving vault in St. 
Mary’s Cemetery at an estimated ex- 
pense of $600. 
Oak Grove Cemetery Association, Le- 
roy, 111., has recently awarded a con- 
tract for fencing and entrance gates. 
Some $3,000 are being expended in 
improving the grounds of Oakwood 
Cemetery, south of Pittsfield, 111. Furth- 
er plans include the erection of a con- 
crete pavilion or waiting room and the 
improvement of the driveways. 
A handsome gateway is to be erected 
at the entrance to the Arch Hill cem- 
etery adjoining the Northfield, N. H., 
town hall property. Miss Ida Haynes 
has contributed $1,300 and the fund is 
to be further augmented by Northfield 
citizens. A Cambridge, Mass., firm has 
been awarded the contract. In addition 
to the archway 1,000 feet of new fence 
will be placed around the cemetery. 
NEW CEMETERIES 
The Taylor Cemetery Association, 
Taylor, Texas, has been formed for the 
purpose of taking over the control of 
the city cemetery with the object of 
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