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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Following are some items of interest 
from the annual report of the Board of 
Commissioners of Pine Grove Cemetery, 
Lynn, Mass., for the year ending Decem- 
ber 31, 1915: General .fund — Receipts: 
Sale of lots, $9,495.85; interments, $3,643; 
interest on perpetual care fund, $10,109.90; 
total, $30,428. Expenditures : Salaries, $4,- 
132; pensions, $499.96; labor, $30,338.02; 
loam, sod, etc., $1,506.15. The perpetual 
care fund totals $262,059.86. There have 
been laid 1,134 feet of drain pipe in con- 
nection with which twenty catch basins 
have been built. In addition to this work, 
3,096 linear feet of concrete gutter have 
been laid. Fifteen old lot s have been 
placed under perpetual care during the 
year. 
A plan to use the abandoned Catholic 
and Episcopal cemeteries on East Third 
street, Lexington, Ky., for park purposes 
was recently agitated in that city. 
Litigation over Union Cemetery, Kansas 
City, Mo., which has been in the courts ten 
years, was recently ended by a decision of 
Judge Clarence A. Burney of the Circuit 
Court. The decision grants that the north- 
ern part of the cemetery, consisting of 
nineteen acres of rocky ground, can be 
sold for commercial uses. The sale al- 
ready has been made to the Evergreen 
Land Co., which assures the opening of 
Grand avenue and Walnut street between 
Twenty-seventh and Twenty-ninth, streets. 
The city’s claim for the collection of taxes 
for four years was allowed, the assessment 
being cut in half, and the land company 
and cemetery association must pay $8,- 
693.48. No more lots can be sold for 
burial purposes. A maintenance fund was 
provided for the upkeep of the cemetery. 
The court failed to return a verdict on 
the petition of the county, charging the 
cemetery company owed $14,600 back taxes. 
The cemetery company offered to compro- 
mise for 50 per cent, which was refused. 
A suit is now pending and J. Q. Watkins, 
collector, states another would be filed for 
taxes in 1911, not included in the present 
suit. This will bring the claims up to 
about $20,000. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Spencer Cemetery Association of Adams 
township, Hamilton county, Ind., was in- 
corporated recently by Raleigh E. Padgett, 
Joseph Timmons, J. A. Crawford, George 
Waitt and T. S. Spencer. 
Prominent residents of Mishawaka, Ind., 
are taking steps necessary to secure a new 
city burial tract. The sponsors of the prop- 
osition are: iMrs. Rose E. Grimes, presi- 
dent of the Mishawaka Cemetery Associa- 
tion : Alice J. Judkins, Airs. Edith Shobe, 
secretary-treasurer of the cemetery asso- 
ciation ; Eleanor W. Keller, president of 
the Women’s club; William Lerner and 
others. 
A new utility building for the city ceme- 
tery of Pontiac, 111., is being planned. 
Another cemetery for Owensboro, Ky., is 
to be projected. It will be located di- 
rectly across the road from Elmwood Cem- 
tery, that city, on the old Craycroft farm, 
which contains fifty-two acres. A corpora- 
tion will be forrried and stock offered to 
the public. It is planned to spend thou- 
sands of dollars in the proper platting of 
the new cemetery, which will be known as 
Rose Hill. 
The Lamartine Cemetery Association 
of Fond du Lac, Wis., was organized re- 
cently. The officers are : President, Dwight 
W. Alerrill, and secretary, W. C. Jones. A 
committee has been appointed to arrange 
the details of incorporation, the object be- 
ing to gather a fund together for the pur- 
pose of keeping the cemetery in repair. 
A new rest room has recently been 
erected in the city cemetery of Elyria, 
Ohio. 
Troy Grove Cemetery Association was 
recently incorporated at Troy Grove, 111., 
by Alice Hee, Belle Barber and Sophia 
Goft. 
Wigs .Cemetery Association has been in- 
corporated at Benton, 111. The incorpor- 
ators are D. 1. Trombly, Rachel Shock- 
ley and Annie Whaley. 
The city of Ogden, Utah, has pur- 
chased ftom W. J. Dallimore his water dis- 
tributing system in the cemetery, and a 
6-inch main has been placed through the 
center of the cemetery from north to 
south, which will be connected with 2-inch 
mains leading east and west, thus con- 
necting up with all the lots. 
Bethel M. E. Cemetery has been incor- 
porated at Griggsville, 111., by Ernest 
Lightle, Frank Lightle and Edw. Bicker- 
dike. ; 
Douglas Cemetery was reicently incorpo- 
rated at_ Milton, 111., by C. J. Douglas, 
Margaret V. French and William Hutton. 
The Wisetown Cemetery Association, of 
Beaver Creek, 111., was recently incorpo- 
rated by Charles Olson, J. B. Zink and T. 
M. Sanders. 
With a view to enlarging the cemetery 
grounds, the Hebron Cemetery Association 
of Platte Township, near St. Joseph, Mo., 
has applied to the Circuit Court for a de- 
cree of incorporation. J. A. Horn is presi- 
dent of the association and E. S. Horn 
secretary. 
The City Council, of Iowa City, la., re- 
cently purchased land for an addition to 
that cemetery on the southeast end. 
The trustees of Orono Township Ceme- 
tery, near Muscatine, la., will enlarge that 
cemetery by the purchase of a tract of 
land 310 feet long by 218 feet wide, and 
for this purpose part of the property be- 
longing to William Singleton has been con- 
demned. 
The Alount View Cemetery Association 
are making extensive improvements in the 
Alount View Cemetery, of Centralia, 
Washington. Additional acreage has been 
purchased making a frontage of 350 feet 
on the Pacific highway. Driveways and 
flower beds are being laid out and when 
the improvements are completed the cem- 
etery will represent an expenditure of 
$ 20 , 000 . 
Work is progressing on the water plant 
that is being constructed at Mountain View 
Cemetery, Fresno, Cal., and the plant will 
probably be ready for operation within two 
months. The San Joaquin Light & Power 
Co. is installing poles and transformers to 
carry power to the pumping plants. The 
roads are being oiled and graded. 
The Salem Cemetery Association, of Sa- 
lem, Ind., was recently incorporated with 
a capital of $1,000 by J. A. Matchett, G. 
W. Clough and 1. J. Lorton. 
The plot of the Scottish Cemetery, 
owned by the Scottish Cemetery Associa- 
tion, near Argyle, 111., which was laid out 
before the civil war, was filed for incorpo- 
ration with County Recorder John A. Bow- 
man recently. Half of the tract is located 
in Winnebago County and the other half 
in Boone County. 
The Green Hill Cemetery Co. was re- 
cently incorporated at Altavista, Va. W. 
Frank Brown, Altavista, Va., is president 
and Ernest Jones secretary. 
Cemetery Officers Elected. 
The Lindsay Cemetery Improvement As- 
sociation, of Lindsay, Cal., has elected Mrs. 
W. B. Kiggens president and Mrs. W. J. ‘ 
Irwin secretary. 
W. W. Roberts has been elected presi- 
dent of the Oneota Cemetery Association, 
of Duluth, Minn., and A. R. Armstrong 
secretary. The association has made ex- 
tensive improvements at the cemetery dur- 
ing the last year. Including a new fence 
around the grounds and a new house and 
chapel which is to cost over $4,000. 
Edgar Hoge was recently elected presi- 
dent and Miss Clara Gore secretary of the 
Hoge, Holderman Cemetery, of Morris, 111. 
The Cemetery Association of Bolton, 111., 
was reorganized recently with H. W. Au- I 
rand president and Ellis Goodsell secretary. ’ 
All the officers of the Oakland Cemetery 
Association, of Shreveport, La., were re- : 
elected. Mrs. Mattie Williams is president 
and Mrs. Richard Furman secretary. The i 
association is in splendid financial shape 
and has recently completed a great deal of 
improvement work in the cemetery. 
Arthur R. Gross 
Landscape Gardener 
848 Penobscot Building 
Detroit, Mich. I 
Specializing in Cemetery Design, 
Development and Operation 
Consulting Landscape Gardener for The Mount 
Greenwood Cemetery of Chicago 
