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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
Mitchell, Georgia A. Wells, of Alton, and 
F. AI, Beckford and Bernice S. Fisher, of 
Laconia. 
At a meeting of residents of Marvell, 
Okla.. recently, the Alarvell Cemetery Cor- 
poration was formed, the purpose of which 
is to buy adjoining lands and otherwise im- 
prove the cemetery grounds. T he follow- 
ing Board of Directors was elected : Mrs. 
Morris Hauft, Airs. FT. AT. Thompson, Airs. 
J. W. Bean. John Palmer and Norman 
Mclvinney. 
The city of Jackson. Cal, has acquired 
its own cemetery, known as the New Jack- 
son Puldic Cemetery. The plot contains 
about two and a half acres and i^ situated 
at the edge of the city on North Court 
street. A concrete wall of low height will 
be erected around it, water pipes will be 
laid and trees and shrubbery will be 
planted. 
The church of St. Leo, Alinn., has un- 
der consideration the purchasing of a new 
burial ground, the present cemetery being 
an undesirable location in many ways, and 
it is planned to secure a larger i)lot of 
ground some distance from tbe village, 
where there will be ample room to lay out 
walks and drives and otherwise beautify 
the grounds. 
new $15,000 building of brick and 
stucco will be erected at the entrance to 
Prospect Flill Cemetery, Omaha, Neb. The 
building will be one story high and will 
contain twelve rooms, including a large 
waiting room, superintendent's office, a 
chapel and the caretaker's home. F. A. 
TTenninger is the architect. President 
I^oomis and all directors were re-elected 
for the ensuing year. 
Bonds to the amount of $10,000 which 
the Glendale Cemetery Association, 11am- 
ilton, O., issued in the deal for taking over 
the property of the bankrupt Glendale 
Cemetery Co. are held to be null aud void 
by BankruptC}- Referee Greve on the 
ground that the association had no au- 
thority under Ohio laws for putting out 
bonds. No lien bas been created on tbe 
property of the compan}' in consequence 
of the attempted issue. Referee Greve 
holds that a fraudulent attempt was made 
to provide for a lien in the bargaining be- 
tween the cemetery company and the as- 
sociation. The trustee of the cemetery 
compan\- is authorized to accept the bid 
of the Oak Hill Cemetery Company of 
$17,C0O for all the property and assets of 
the cemetery company except cash on hand, 
and the right to proceed against stock- 
holders and promoters for unpaid stock 
subscriptions. ,\11 the rights and interest 
of the bankrupt company are to pass to the 
Oak Flill Cemetery. 
resolution was presented and adopted 
at the meeting of the Daytona Reach Coun- 
cil, of Daytona. Fla., recently, which advo- 
cated the moving of Pinewood Cemetery 
from its p'esent site, and asked that the 
council look up the provisions of the state 
law for movins' or ch-’iiging the location of 
places of burial. 
The Putnam Cemetery ^Association, of 
Greenwich, Conn., has purchased from LL 
G. Drinkwater ten acres of land in upper 
North street for $20,000. The property ad- 
joins Putnam Cemetery on the north and 
St. Alary's Cemetery on the west. 
The Wilmore Public Cemetery Co., 
Nicholasville. Ivy., was incorporated recent- 
ly with a capital of $4,000. The incorpo- 
rators are James AI. Lowry, John R. Jewell, 
FI. J. Wetzel and O. C. Gar\ey. 
.V new cemetery has been established at 
Grandview, Ore., on what is known as the 
school section. Harry Chenowith donated 
the tract and it will l)e known as the Geor- 
gia Cemetery. 
.A seven-foot steel picket fence has been 
erected around Alount Hope Cemetery, 
Florence, S. C., which is a great improve- 
ment to the cemetery. 
'Fhe Independent Order of (Jdd Fellows, 
of AIcLeanshoro, 111, has purchased a tract 
of land to be used as an addition to the 
C)dd Fellows' Cemetery. This addition will 
be plotted as soon as the grading is com- 
pleted. .\n effort is being made on the 
part of the Odd Fellows to arrange for a 
sexton for the cemetery. 
The local cemetery at Chickaska, Okla., 
recentl>- purchased by tbe city from the 
Odd Fellows’ Lodge, will be known as Hill 
Crest Cemetery. Local organizations, com- 
posed of women, will have charge of the 
cemetery, and arc planning to beautify it. 
The AIcHenry (111.) County Board of 
Supervisors is considering deeding the Al- 
gonquin Cemetery, title to which now rests 
in the county, to the village of .Algonquin. 
The cemetery was deeded to the county for 
cemetery purpose many years a.go, but re- 
cently a movement was started aiming 
towards the vilHgc acquiring the property 
and organizing an association to look after 
and take care of the cemetery. 
Father Cronin, pastor of St. Alary’s Cath- 
olic Church at Wymore, Neb., has pur- 
chased five acres of land adjoining the 
W.\'more Cemetery, for a Catholic burial 
ground. This will lie put in shape to have 
the bodies from the Catholic Cemetery 
near Blue Springs removed to it. 
The cemetery at Prophetstown, III, has 
been incorporated and named Riverside. 
Alason P. Brewer was elected president and 
Alattson LI. Baldwin secretary. It is pro- 
posed by the organization to grade the 
roadways and alleys and build a ncur fence. 
Cemetery Officers Elected 
Stockholders of Riverside Cemetery As- 
sociation, Three Rivers, Alich., held their 
annual meeting January 8, 1917, and elected 
Robe. t Hall president, W. E. Barnard clerk, 
and J. P. AIcKee treasurer. The reserve 
fund is now $29,170 56. the fund having in- 
creased $1,185 during 1916. 
.At the annual meeting of Forest Hills 
Cemetery, Chattanooga. Tenn., Edward .A. 
Alerriam, superintendent, was elected secre- 
tary and treasurer of the cemetery, to suc- 
ceed Dr. D. E. Bushnell, deceased, and also 
made a director. 
The Atlanta Ladies' Cemetery Associa- 
tion, of Atlanta, III, has elected Airs. Alary 
E. Mix president and Mrs. Nannie Shores 
secretary. 
The Woodland Lawn Cemeter\' Associa- 
tion, of Claremore, Okla., has elected Airs. 
Harry Jennings president and Airs. Sue 
Alton secretary. 
The ladies of the Cemetery Association 
of Grand Alound, la., have elected Airs. 
Ida Luch president, and Airs. Alyrtle Ehl- 
ers secretary. 
Joseph Emmert has been elected presi- 
dent and O. T. Smith secretary of the Oak- 
land Cemetery Association, Freeport, 111. 
-At the annual meeting of the Hebrew 
Friendship Cemetery Co., Baltimore, Aid., 
Aleyer B. Goldsmith was elected president 
to succeed Alax Nusbaum. 
The Board of Cemetery Trustees of Van 
Wert, O., has chosen C. J. Scholler as pres- 
ident. S. E. Walters was re-elected secre- 
tary of the board, and Air. Kennedy su- 
perintendent of the grounds. 
Henry C. Taylor has been re-elected 
president. James B. Wilcox secretary and 
treasurer, and John A. Schmidt superin- 
tendent of Green Lawn Cemeterw Colum- 
bus, O. The secretary's report showed 
that there had been 1,467 interments last 
year, making the total over 58.0GO. 
Airs. John Hu.xtable was elected presi- 
dent of the Cemetery Association of Delta 
Center, Alich., and Airs. Homer Henderson 
secretary. 
The Oak Hill Cemetery Association of 
Owosso, Alich., has elected J. C. Shattuck 
p.'esident and E. AI. Aliller secretary- 
treasurer. The association now has hold- 
ings totaling about eighty acres in the 
south part of the city. About forty acres 
of it is used for cemetery purposes and 
the balance is being improx'ed. 
The following officers were re-elected at 
the annual meeting of the Greenwood 
Cemetery Association, Knoxville. Tenn.: 
President and treasurer, R. N. Kesterson ; 
vice-president, E. E. AIcAIillan ; secretary 
and assistant treasurer, Tom O. Kesterson. 
Reports of the past year and work planned 
for the future were in line with the pro- 
gressive policies of developing and main- 
taining Greenwood as one of the most 
beautiful and best appointed cemeteries in 
the country. 
The Board of Cemetery Trustees, of 
Greenville, O., has elected the following 
officers for 1917: Burr Evans, president: 
D. L, Folkerth, vice-president, and W. D. 
Aleeker, treasurer. 
G. G. Popp was re-elected president and 
George A. Richardson secretary of the Fort 
Howard Cemetery Association, of Green 
Pay, Wis. Reports of the secretary showed 
the cemetery association to be on a sound 
linancial basis. Extensive improvements 
were made to the property last year. Por- 
tions of the grounds were beautified, roads 
and buildings were repaired, and more 
work will be done on the grounds next 
sprine. 
