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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The firm of Thomas Meehan & Sons dis- 
solved partnership June 30. The retail de- 
partment and nursery at Germantown, 
Philadelphia, and the landscape depart- 
ment at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia, will be 
continued by S. Mendelson Meehan and J. 
Franklin Meehan, Under the firm name of 
Thomas Meehan & Sons. The wholesale 
department and nursery at Dresher, Pa., 
will be taken over by Thomas B. Meehan 
and his son, Albert F. Meehan, and will 
be conducted under the firm name of 
Thomas B. Meehan Co. All accounts due 
Thomas Meehan & Sons at Dresher, will 
be due and payable to Thomas B. Meehan 
Co., Dresher, Pa. 
The sculptured Kreutzer bust won by 
the United Singers of Baltimore at the 
twenty-fourth National Saengerfest, held 
last year in Brooklyn, N. Y., was pre- 
sented to the city of Baltimore at Patter- 
Alemorial Day ceremonies were held in 
iMount Olivet Cemetery, Dubuque, la., for 
the first time this year, a solemn high mass 
being celebrated in observance of the day. 
Over three thousand people attended the 
mass. 
The cemetery presented an impressive 
sight with its flower decked graves against 
the green sward. The temporary altar at 
which mass was celebrated, was erected in 
front of the mortuary chapel. The altar 
was decorated in black and the priests 
wore black vestments as in a requiem 
mass. Father J. J. Hanley was celebrant 
of the mass. Father M. Barry, deacon ; 
Father Peter O’Malley, sub-deacon, and 
Father John C. Stuart, master of cere- 
monies. The occasion was a never-to-be- 
forgotten one and its success will no doubt 
make it a permanent feature at Mt. Olivet 
in the future. 
Mrs. Clara K. Dwyer, of the Cemetery 
Improvement Association of Pinckneyville, 
111., writes regarding the improvements 
which have been made in their rural ceme- 
tery : This association was organized Feb- 
ruary 21, 1913, at which time the ceme- 
tery, just on the outskirts of the city, was 
in a deplorable condition, with grass, weeds 
and underbrush sometimes more than waist 
high. Now the entire cemetery is in a neat 
and clean condition. It is all well set in blue 
grass and kept mowed. The trees are well 
trimmed and fences and gravestones kept 
in good repair. The collections for 1915 
were more than 250% greater than for 
1913. The cemetery contains about eleven 
acres, and city water, with hydrants well 
distributed throughout the grounds, has 
been installed. 
“Watson” monument, illustrated, was 
recently erected in the Chenango Valley 
son Park recently. Henry Thomas, presi- 
dent of the organization, made the presen- 
tation speech, and the trophy was accepted 
by Mayor Preston on behalf of the city. 
The city council of Rockford, 111., re- 
cently granted the Park Board permission 
to use the city quarry for a swimming 
pool. The city retains the right, however, 
to reject or reclaim the property at any 
time it iound it necessary to crush stone 
in the quarry or use the land for other 
purposes. 
Rev. Mary M. Bowen, superintendent 
of the Independent Japanese Mission, has 
given a hearty indorsement to the plan for 
the parking of the Helvetia Cemetery, Sac- 
ramento, Cal., and suggests that the orien- 
tal sections of the cemetery be adorned 
with the Japanese cherry trees or the flam- 
ing maple. 
Cemetery, Greenville, Pa. It was furnished 
and erected by F. T. Cutler, of Barre, Vt. 
The following are the dimensions ; First 
base: 15 feet x 6 inches by 10 feet 6 inches 
X 1 foot 6 inches; second base: 13 feet x8 
feet X 1 foot 2 inches; third base: 11 feet 
2 inches x 6 feet 2 inches x 1 foot 9 
inches; die: 10 feet x 5 feet x 4 feet 8 
inches; cap: 11 feet 7 inches x 6 feet 7 
inches x 1 foot 4 inches ; top cap : 10 feet 
X 5 feet X 1 foot. It is a hammered job 
throughout, standing a little over 12 feet 
high. This stone stands on a high eleva- 
tion and overlooks the Chenango river and 
the city, and Thiel College and campus in 
the back. 
The Board of Trustees of the LaMoille 
Cemetery, LaMoille, 111., have passed a 
resolution whereby no rigs except the 
hearse will be allowed in the cemetery un- 
less special permission is given. 
Through the will of Mrs. Martha A. 
Buck, of Decatur, 111., a bequest of $200 
is made to the Decatur Greenwood Ceme- 
tery Association, to be held in trust and 
invested, the proceeds devoted to caring 
for the family lot there. 
Approximately $200 has been raised by 
popular subscription for the care of lots 
in the Yuba City Cemetery, Yuba City, 
Cal. 
Walter B. Shade, formerly of Decatur, 
111., has recently assumed the management 
of West Lawn Cemetery, Omaha’s beau- 
tiful 160-acre perpetual care cemetery. 
Mrs. R. H. Mofifet, of Mosher Cemetery, 
northeast of Monmouth, 111., recently an- 
nounced that about $1,200 had been se- 
cured toward an endowment fund for the 
cemetery. About an acre of ground has 
been purchased for an addition and enough 
lots sold to raise the purchase price, and 
enough additional money subscribed to pay 
the expense of fencing the enlarged tract. 
A monument of granite and bronze, 17 
feet high, is being erected in the National 
Cemetery at Memphis, Tenn., by the state 
of Minnesota in memory of its 362 sol- 
diers, killed during the Civil War, who are 
buried there. The monument is the first 
that has been erected in the cemetery by 
any state to commemorate its soldier dead, 
who lie within its borders. 
The Bellefontaine Cemetery Association, 
of Bellefontaine, Ohio, has lately published 
an interesting booklet of twenty pages 
which contains the history of the associa- 
tion, articles of association, by-laws, rules, 
regulations and endowment of the ceme- 
tery, and plans for permanent and more 
extensive beautification of the cemetery. 
The plan is to ask each lot owner to pay 
to the treasurer of the association any 
sum he may desire as an indorsement, the 
income from the principal to be used to 
care for the lot forever. 
The report of the superintendent of Oak- 
land Cemetery, Princeton, 111., shows that 
during the past year the cemetery has re- 
ceived $3,575.72. Of this sum $2,316.50 was 
ICEHETERY NOTES 
RECENTLY ERECTED IN CHENANGO VALLEY CEMETERY, GREENVILLE, PA. 
