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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
All of the small parks were maintained in 
good condition throughout the summer. At 
Jeffers Park sanitary drinking cups were 
installed on the drinking fountains. At 
Federal Park a lighting system was in- 
stalled. The total expenditures for park 
maintenance during the year was $9,080.32, 
and for park improvements $2,619.30; 
$1,862.14 was paid as special assessments 
for sewer, pavement and sidewalk construc- 
tion on streets in front of park property. 
In Oakwood Cemetery the main road from 
the entrance to section 86 was widened and 
regraded and again surfaced with cinders. 
The perpetual care endowment for this 
cemetery has increased during the year 
from $7,000 to $8,180. The slight increase 
in the appropriation for Brady Hill Ceme- 
tery allowed of its better maintenance this 
Following are some statistical statements 
taken from the annual report of the sec- 
retary of Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincin- 
nati. Ohio, for the year ending September 
30, 1916 : Receipts : From sale of lots, 
$47,476.75; from interments and founda- 
tions. $34,384.10 ; from improvement account, 
$29,855.41 ; from ground rents, buildings, 
bond interest, etc., $33,125.22; Trust Fund 
account, $43,255.20: total receipts, $189,- 
500.22; total receipts with balance, $199,- 
117.98. Disbursements; For lots repur- 
chased, $3,627.50; for interments and 
foundations, $15,477.73; for improvement 
account, $8,346,88; for operation and main- 
tenance (grounds and buildings, water 
plant, stable) ,$45,742.61 ; salaries, $17,989.01 ; 
Trust Fund account, $20,373.10; total dis- 
bursements. $177,657.58; total plus cash 
balance on hand September 30, 1916, $199,- 
117.98. Amount of ground sold during the 
year, 37.979 square feet. 
Charles LeGro of Monson, Mass., was 
recently found guilty of wilfully passing 
through a funeral procession at Ware, 
Mass., and fined $25.00. He has entered 
an appeal to the Superior Court. 
Efforts are under way by the Tower 
Grove Improvement Association to con- 
vert the Old Picker Cemetery at Compton 
avenue and Arsenal street, St. Louis, Mo., 
into a public playground. It is believed 
the cemetery may be purchased by the 
city of St. Louis from the church congre- 
gation which holds title to it, and the 
clause in the deed by which it originally 
was conveyed to be used for “cemetery 
purposes forever” be complied with. Many 
of the graves have been opened and emp- 
tied. The tract comprises a little more 
than nine acres, and it is proposed to con- 
vert it into a park or playground, leaving 
the remaining graves in the south half of 
the cemetery, where there is some litigation 
year than heretofore. In the spring the 
stone piers at the entrance were put up and 
the balance of the work completed in the 
vicinity of the Corning vault as contem- 
plated by the $2,000 appropriation provided 
from the income of the Louisa C- Bartlett 
bequest. One new perpetual care endow- 
ment of $150 was received for this ceme- 
tery, bringing the total endowment for this 
purpose up to $1,400, At Forest Lawn 
Cemetery the usual maintenance work was 
carried on. During the summer the west 
half of section 9 was graded, drains and 
water pipe installed and the lots staked. 
The trust fund for this cemetery has in- 
creased during the year from $85,584.48 to 
$89,791.41, and the perpetual care endow- 
ment fund has increased $1,000, now being 
$ 8 , 200 . 
over the title to the ground, and enclosing 
them. 
By an order of the city board of health 
of Logansport, Ind., the old City Cemetery 
has been closed. It was established in 1828. 
The stockholders of the Rialto Park, 
Cemetery, Rialto, Cal., recently voted to 
transfer that cemetery to the city of Rialto. 
W. E. Hull, of Peoria, who recently ten- 
dered the Lewistown Cemetery Association 
of Lewistown, 111., an offer of $5,000 for 
the improvement of the cemetery, contin- 
gent upon the citizens of Lewistown raising 
a like amount, has extended his offer far 
another year. 
• In the improvement of Holme avenue, 
Philadelphia, one of the principal avenues 
of the Northeast boulevard, an attractive 
parking arrangement will be specially fea- 
tured at the grave of Thomas Holme, for 
whom the avenue is named. Holme was 
a surveyor in the employ of William Penn, 
and his grave is at one side of the avenue. 
Besides the special parking scheme to be 
carried out at the grave of the distin- 
guished surveyor, his lifework is to be 
memorialized in the ornamentation of a 
monument bridge which is now being con- 
structed over Pennypack creek. The bridge, 
which is to cost $70,(X)0. as well as the 
improvement of Holme avenue, is being 
pushed under the direction of Director 
Datesman, of the department of public 
works. 
Oak Grove Cemetery Association of 
Hillsboro, 111., has received an endowment 
of $200 from Mrs. Elizabeth Smith of 
Hillsboro. 
The Roselawn Cemetery Association of 
St. Paul, Minn., has been awarded $1,536.75 
for 6.15 acres of land condemned by the 
city for the extension of the high service 
reservoir north of the city on Dale street. 
The Cemetery Board of Gillespie, III, was 
recently made the party to a damage suit in 
the Circuit Court when Dora Meinecke and 
others filed a suit for $1,500 damages 
against it. It is claimed that water from 
the cemetery backs into the surrounding 
basements and that tile should be put in 
to drain it away. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Improvements are being made to the 
cemetery at Hannah, N. D. 
Riverview Cemetery Association of New- 
ville, Ind., was incorporated recently by 
H. J. Herrick, O. A. Blood and 1. M. 
Traxler. 
Greenwood Cemetery and Undertaking 
Company, Copper Hill, Polk County, Tenn., 
was recently incorporated with a capital 
of $5,000; to engage in undertaking and 
to conduct a cemetery. The incorpora- 
tors are : Robt. A. Chester, J. H. Phillips, 
Chas O. Beeves, Harry Swann, Jr., David 
McLean and J. M. Carter. 
Through the efforts of the Ladies’ Asso- 
ciation the cemetery at Sherburne, Minn., 
is to be further improved by the erection 
of an ornamental iron fence and gates 
about the grounds. The city council has 
charge of the work. A resurvey of the 
north side of the grounds will also be 
made and substantial corner posts are to 
be set at the lot corners. 
The Guilford Union Cemetery Company 
of Rockford, 111., was incorporated recent- 
ly by Fred E. Carpenter, H. H. Carpenter, 
Hugh Reid, P. W. Doolittle, James Reid, 
Edward Reid, William Andrews and L. C. 
Pepper for the preservation and future 
care of Guilford Union Cemetery, located 
in Guilford County, east of Rockford and 
which was first opened in 1835. 
Oakridge, Cemetery Securities Corpora- 
tion has been incorporated at Richmond, 
Va., with a maximum stock of $750,000; 
par, $10; minimum, $50. Edward H. Har- 
rison is president and L. A. Bryant, sec- 
retary, both of Chicago, 111. 
The members and officers of the Ridge 
church. Grayville, 111., recently announced 
that all lots in the old cemetery not taken 
and all lots in the new addition will be sold 
at $10.00 per lot. All parties now holding 
lots are requested to pay the same fee. 
The Dale Cemetery of Connersville, Ind., 
has been greatly improved during the year 
and is in very good financial standing. 
A new fence and cemetery walk have 
been constructed for the cemetery at Vic- 
toria, 111. 
The City Council of Portsmouth, Va., 
recently took steps to purchase land to 
add sixty burial plots to Oak Grove 
Cemetery. 
More than $36,000 of the proposed $50,- 
000 capitalization was raised at a meeting 
of the recently organized Oak Hill Ceme- 
tery Company, Cincinnati, O.. a short time 
ago. The Oak Hill Cemetery Company 
took over the Glendale cemetery. 
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