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also a recent improvement. The ex- 
terior is built of No. 1 pressed red brick 
with Barre granite steps and terra cotta 
trimmings. The porch floor and base- 
ment are of concrete. The interior com- 
prises waiting room with two toilets, 
and general office and private office for 
the superintendent. All woodwork is 
finished in quartered red oak rubbed 
d^own to its natural finish. The furni- 
ture and other finishings are made of 
the same material to match. Hot water 
is used for heat. The basement has two 
rooms, one for storage, vault and fur- 
nace, and the other for automobile. The 
building is 30-4.x21-8 in dimensions and 
was designed by the superintendent, J. 
A. Lawson. J. J. Hudson was the con- 
tractor. 
The entrance stands hack aljout 150 
feet from the Lincoln Highway and the 
cemetery association has also set aside 
for ornamental purposes 500 feet back 
The case of Dora Meinecke vs. the Gil- 
lespie Cemetery Association, Gillespie, 111., 
was heard in the Circuit Court recently and 
decided in favor of the cemetery associa- 
tion. Mrs. Meinecke charged that the 
cemetery had been filling up low places un- 
til they had raised the grade several feet 
above her house and the water drained into 
the cellar. 
The site of the $25,000 mortuary chapel 
to be erected through the will of Mrs. 
Fanny Eastin in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louis- 
ville, in memory of her husband. Judge 
George B. Eastin, and her son, George B., 
Jr., is the subject of litigation. The will 
provided that the chapel should be built 
“just beyond the basin" in Cave Hill Cem- 
etery. The present suit represents a con- 
troversy between the heirs and the ceme- 
tery company as to the location, the execu- 
tor having asked the court to decide. The 
case was tried first before Judge Samuel B. 
Kirby, who decided that the location select- 
ed by the heirs in Section A of the ceme- 
from the highway, so that the entrance 
can never he obstructed from view in- 
side or outside of the grounds. 
■The massive post and wall type of 
cemetery entrance illustrated here was 
erected by the McCall Granite Works, 
Oskaloosa, la., for the cemetery in that 
city, and is of Barre granite, four car- 
loads of stock being used for the work. 
The total width of the structure, includ- 
ing the walls, is over 100 feet, and the 
large posts in the center are three feet 
square and eight feet high. The work 
was cut liy O. M. Burrus & Bro., of Bur- 
lington, la. 
The handsome monumental entrance 
to Valley Cemetery, Manchester, N. H., 
illustrated here, was cut and erected by 
Palmer & Garmon, of Manchester, and 
makes a very dignified and imposing- 
form of entrance. The columns are of 
Concord granite and have been well de- 
signed to produce a pleasing and appro- 
priate architectural effect. 
tery and that chosen by the cemetery com- 
pany in Section C were both “just beyond 
the basin,” and that the cemetery company 
could choose which site the chapel should 
be built upon. The heirs, dissatisfied with 
the selection of the cemetery company, ap- 
pealed. 
The Cemetery Committee of Grayville. 
111., recently adopted several new rules and 
regulations for Oak Grove Cemetery. They 
are similar to those in force at all the 
modern cemeteries, namely, that all foun- 
dations must be built by cemetery, that no 
coping, fencing or hedges will be permit- 
ted to enclose lot, etc. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
City water mains have been extended to 
Oak Lawn Cemetery, east of Batesville, 
Ark. The council will co-operate with the 
Batesville Improvement Club in financing 
the building of a concrete sidewalk on the 
southeast side of the cemetery. 
Union Street Cemetery, Athens, O., has 
been greatly improved by the erection of a 
new gateway. It consists of tw'o massive 
pillars on either side of the main drive 
and tw'O smaller pillars for the pedestrian 
gates, and cost over $500. 
W. E. Harlow, formerly pastor of the 
Central Christian Church, was elected pres- 
ident and Walter H. Henderson secretary 
of the association in charge of the estab- 
lishment and maintenance of a new ceme- 
tery at Sunny Slope farm, Springfield, Mo. 
The cemetery will comprise forty acres of 
ground. 
New Hope Lutheran Cemetery, at 
Adamsville, O., is to be extensively im- 
proved with grading and cement walks. 
The improvement w’ill cost about $400. 
The new cemetery at Mishawaka, Ind., 
called the Fairview Cemetery, is open to 
interment. The ground has been platted, 
fenced, graded, and walks and drives 
put in. 
Brushwood Cemetery Association, of 
Edinburg, Tex., has been incorporated by 
John Closner, Mrs. A. Y. Baker and W. 
R. Montgomery. 
The cemetery association of Bolton, 111., 
have recently completed a wire fence 
around the cemetery. 
About forty men and women recently 
cleaned up and otherwise improved Spring 
Creek Cemetery, Macomb, 111. It was sug- 
gested that an endowment of $500 be 
raised, which was unanimously carried, and 
also that an annual meeting and home- 
coming be held next year to locate and 
mark all graves. The officers are Henry 
Allshouse, president; Joseph 1. Thomp- 
son, secretary-treasurer. 
The new Catholic cemetery, northeast 
of Edwardsville, 111., is being laid off into 
lots by Civil Engineer George B. Shaffer. 
The Tiferes Israel congregation. Alms 
place. Walnut Hills, will establish a ceme- 
tery on the Muddy Creek road. Price Hill, 
Cincinnati, adjoining one belonging to the 
Wesley Avenue Synagogue. The land com- 
prises an acre and a half. 
Plans have been made for the laying of 
a new driveway in the Concord Cemetery, 
Concord, 111. 
Pine View Cemetery, near Waukegan, 
111., was dedicated recently. The new 
cemetery, with its beautiful landscape and 
winding drives, is located in one of the 
choice spots of Lake County. Rev. Ru- 
dolph Ericson, of the Swedish M. E. 
Church, gave the principal address. 
At the mass meeting held recently in 
Meridian, Ida., to outline plans for the 
improvement of Meridian Cemetery, it was 
decided to effect the organization of a cem- 
etery association to act in conjunction with 
the village board and the local 1. O. O. F. 
lodge in the work of keeping the cemetery 
improved, and preparatory to perfecting 
the organization of the association, a com- 
mittee, consisting of Dr. S. M. C. Rey- 
nolds, Dr. H. F. Neal and Rev. Joel Brown, 
was appointed to draft a constitution and 
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