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owner of Devine's hotel on the Troy 
road, about one acre of land north of 
the hotel and facing the driveway into 
the cemetery. The price paid is said to 
be $10,000. The tract will be laid out 
as a park with shade trees and benches 
for the benefit of those who visit the 
cemetery. 
The trustees of Crown Hill cemetery, 
Indianapolis, Ind., will construct a new 
entrance to the cemetery at the inter- 
section of Northwestern avenue and 
Maple road boulevard, formerly known 
as Thirty-eighth street. An approach 
drive forty feet wide is to be built into 
the cemetery and an ornamental stone 
entrance gate erected. The drive is to 
be constructed in such a way that there 
will be considerable parking space out- 
side the entrance, which probably will 
be improved by the park board. 
New Cemeteries. 
The property recently purchased from 
the estate of Edward M. Frankenfield, 
west of the city limits of Easton, Pa., 
is to be converted into a cemetery. The 
tract of land consists of ten acres and 
a fraction. An application will be 
made for a charter for the St. Bernard’s 
Cemetery Company. 
An Act of Congress passed at the 
last session appropriated $25,000 for the 
purchase of a parcel of land in Cave 
Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Ky., to be 
used as part of the National cemetery. 
The Orthodox Jews of Port Wayne, 
Ind., recently dedicated a new cemetery, 
three miles south of the city. 
St. John’s cemetery at Clinton, Mass., 
was consecrated on November 17. 
Glenwood Cemetery Company, Knox 
Co., Tenn.; capital, $5,000, has been 
chartered. 
Pierpont Cemetery Association, of 
Easton, W. Va., has been incorpo- 
rated. 
The St. Jean Baptiste church society, 
Lynn, Mass., has acquired between 
seven and eight acres of land opposite 
the cemetery of St. Joseph’s church, on 
what is known as the Peabody road, 
for cemetery purposes. The land is in 
three separate parcels, and the estima- 
ted valuation is $2,500. 
The City Commission, of Shreveport, 
La., has authorized the purchase of the 
old Fort Humburg site for cemetery 
purposes. There are 67.2 acres in the 
tract and the price agreed upon is $600 
per acre. 
A cemetery association is forming in 
Normal, 111., with a view to purchasing 
a site for a cemetery. Normal has been 
for years without a cemetery, the inter- 
ment of local deceased citizens having 
been made in Bloomington, 111. 
The village board of Manito, 111., has 
appointed a committee to purchase a 
parcel of land south of the old ceme- 
tery as a much needed addition thereto. 
A new cemetery at Orleans, Ind., is 
about completed and ready for lot 
sales. 
The Atlanta Cemetery association, At- 
lanta, Ga., capital $50,000, is developing 
a large tract of land on the Marietta 
and Inman yards car line for cemetery 
purposes. The land is being graded and 
walls for the enclosure of the property 
are being built. Eight thousand lots 
will be laid out for sale at a price of 
$35 a lot. The cemetery will be known 
as the Atlanta Park cemetery. 
The trustees for the Christian 
Church of Antioch, Mo., have filed a 
deed for a seven and a half acre tract 
for cemetery purposes. 
Articles of association have been 
filed for the Saunders Cemetery As- 
sociation of Deleville, Ind. The arti- 
cles provide that the association is 
not for profit and there shall be no 
dividends. The funds are to be divid- 
ed into a general fund and endow- 
ment fund, with 75 per cent of the 
money from the sale of lots to go 
into the latter fund. 
The Lakeside Cemetery Associa- 
tion has purchased a seven acre tract 
at Libertyville, 111., for $4,400. Lake- 
side is Libertyville’s only cemetery 
and the additional land was purchased 
by the association because the old site 
is so fully occupied that desirable lots 
are no longer obtainable. 
Brookland Cemetery Association, 
Brookland, Shelby county, Texas, has 
been incorporated; no capital stock. 
Incorporators: J. C. Brook, R. D. 
Stepp, T. A. Henry. 
Arcadia Cemetery, Jacksonville, 111., 
has been incorporated. Incorporators: 
Charles A. Ogle, J. C. Henderson, M. 
M. Crum. 
St. Joseph’s Roman Catholic 
Church, of Derry, Pa., has purchased 
a plot of ground of some 18 acres, ly- 
ing east of Ethel Spring Lake, which 
is being improved for cemetery pur- 
poses. 
Articles of incorporation have been 
filed with the Indiana secretary of 
state for two companies, which intend 
to open a new one hundred acre cem- 
etery three miles east of Irvington on 
the National road. The Woodland 
Cemetery Association, with no capital 
stock, is organized to carry out the 
plans for operating the cemetery after 
the ground is purchased from the 
Cemetery Company, organized with 
$300,000 capital stock, to purchase the 
land from several present owners. 
The Barry Cemetery Company has 
been organized at Barry, III, with the 
object of taking over the charge of the 
cemetery, which has heretofore been a 
city institution. 
The plat for a new cemetery for Webb 
City, Mo., containing 1,206 burial lots, 
has been filed with the county recorder. 
It will be known as the Wild Rose 
Cemetery. The site consists of 9.94 
acres and the property is owned and 
controlled by the Home Land and Loan 
Company. The new cemetery abuts on 
two sides of the present Webb City 
cemetery. 
The new St. Mary’s Cemetery, Syra- 
cuse, N. Y., was dedicated on Sept. 15, 
the Rt. Rev. Mgr. J. S. M. Lynch 
preaching the dedicatory sermon. The 
new cemetery was a gift to the diocese 
from the late Bishop Patrick A. Lud- 
den. It is under the management of 
a board composed of the pastor and 
one layman from each of the English 
speaking parishes in Syracuse. 
NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL 
WORK. 
The sixteenth annual report of the 
Secretary of Agriculture, made public 
December 7, begins with a series of 
short paragraphs in which some im- 
portant agricultural truths are striking- 
ly expressed. It proceeds with the cus- 
tomary review of the agricultural pro- 
duction and foreign trade of the year 
and contains some results of an investi- 
gation into local conditions affecting 
agricultural credit, the usual condensed 
statements of the work of the bureaus 
during the year, and a long account of 
the work and achievements of the de- 
partment during the 16 years throughout 
which Secretary Wilson’s service has 
extended. This being the last report 
of Secretary Wilson as head of the De- 
partment of Agriculture, he devotes a 
large portion of it to a review of his 
administration during the 16 years of 
his service. He introduces the review 
by saying: “Sixteen years have been 
of interest in the history of this depart- 
ment. Bureaus have been created and 
expanded. Lines of research, investiga- 
tion, and demonstration have been mul- 
tiplied. Congress has piled duty on 
duty from year to year. The corps of 
experts needed in the increasing amount 
and variety of service has grown great- 
ly. The department has become a great 
agricultural university for post-graduate 
work. Discoveries for the benefit of 
farm practices and improvements of old 
ones have been countless. The depart- 
ment has both promoted and begun a 
revolution in the arts and sciences of 
agriculture. Its influences for agricul- 
tural betterment have penetrated all 
regions of the national domain.” 
