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Association, Marion, 0., the following offi- 
cers were elected : S. E. DeWolfe, presi- 
dent, and Charles N. Phillips, secretary and 
treasurer. 
The following were elected trustees of 
the Belvidere Cemetery Association, Belvi- 
dere, 111., at a recent meeting: E. T. Gage, 
S. L. Covey, and John Barnes, the former 
as president. 
At the annual meeting of the lot owners 
of Hope Cemetery, Galesburg, 111., Dr. 
John Van Ness Standish was elected presi- 
dent and A. A. Sigsbee secretary. 
The directors of East Side Cemetery, 
Omaha, Neb., elected J. H. Campbell as 
president and D. A. Moore as secretary- 
treasurer. 
The Marseilles Cemetery Association, 
Marseilles, 111., held their annual meeting 
recently and elected A. L.. Trager presi- 
dent and Flora M. Borough secretary. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
The Lyons Commercial Club Road Com- 
mittee, of Canton, la., has arranged for 
further improvements on the cemetery road. 
The road was recently macadamized and 
repaired by the county, but will now be 
oiled. 
An organization has been formed by the 
women of St. Patrick’s Catholic Church for 
the purpose of taking in charge and caring 
for Mount Olivet Cemetery, Livingston, 111. 
Oak Hill Cemetery, Atchison, Kan., is 
being greatly improved. The driveways are 
being graded and repaired, water mains 
laid in all parts of the cemetery, and the 
sexton’s house remodeled. About $800 is 
the total expenditure. 
Five hundred feet of four-inch water 
main is to be put in the northeast corner 
of the new addition to Greenwood Ceme- 
tery, Canton, 111., by the Cemetery Board. 
The board is also contemplating installing 
same hydrants, a catch basin, several hun- 
dred feet of sidewalks and concrete curb- 
ing. 
Sunnyside Cemetery Association, of Elk- 
hart, Ind., has purchased fifty acres of 
land for a new cemetery which will contain 
8.000 lots and provide burial space for 
48.000 persons. 
The Spring Grove Cemetery Co., of Col- 
orado Springs, Colo., has filed incorpora- 
tion papers with the Secretary of State. 
The incorporators are Eli Clayton, James 
H. Bruce and Eli Sawyer, and the com- 
pany is incorporated for $100, OCX). The 
company proposes to have a new cemetery 
north of Colorado Springs. 
Bird Creek Cemetery Association, of 
Kingfisher, Okla., was recently incorporated 
by F. S. Mosher, George Byers and G. K. 
Honeous. 
The cemetery trustees of Riverside Cem- 
etery Association, Sterling, 111., are im- 
proving that cemetery. 
It has been suggested that the city of 
McPherson, Kan., take over the cemetery 
belonging to the McPherson Cemetery As- 
sociation. 
The city is planning to assist the Glen- 
wood Cemetery Association, of Virginia, 
Minn., in making extensive improvements 
in that cemetery. 
Plans for the beautification of Oak Hill 
The annual meeting of the Ohio Asso- 
ciation of Cemetery Superintendents and 
officials will be held at Dayton, June 9 and 
10. Headquarters will be at the Phillips 
House and the first session will be called to 
order at 1 :30 p. m., June 9. 
An interesting program has been ar- 
ranged and it is expected that the meeting 
will be the largest and most enthusiastic 
ever held. 
J. A. Reed, of Canton, is president of 
the association, and E. A. Sloan, of Marion, 
secretary-treasurer. 
Following is the program : 
Wednesday, June 9, 1 :30 P. M. — Prayer, 
Rev. Father W. D. Hickey; welcome ad- 
dress, Mayor G. W. Shroyer ; response, J. 
C. Dix, Cleveland, O. ; roll-call ; applica- 
tion and reception of new members; presi- 
dent’s address, J. A. Reed, Canton, O. ; 
reading of secretary’s report; communica- 
tions; payment of dues and fees; paper, 
“Ornamental Shrubbery,” J. E. Freuden- 
berger, landscape gardener, National Cash 
There are many interesting combinations 
of entrance gates and posts that can be 
designed with brick or stone posts, and the 
illustration on the front cover of this issue 
shows a very ornamental yet dignified and 
massive effect secured by the use of brick 
posts, with stone bases and caps. 
Careful attention has been given to the 
selection of different shades of the popular 
tapestry bricks to produce an effect of life 
Cemetery, Battle Creek, Mich., and espe- 
cially the part that is still undeveloped, 
have been made by Swain Nelson & Sons 
Co., landscape gardeners of Chicago. In- 
cluded in their plans is a very artistic 
bridge over the railroad tracks and leading 
to the tract of land south of the cemetery 
which has been purchased by the board to 
provide for future growth. 
Register Co.; discussion of same; paper, 
“Rebuilding Worn-out Lawns,” Lake View 
Cemetery Association, Cleveland, O.; dis- 
cussion of same; address, Dr. D. F. Gar- 
land, Director of Welfare, Dayton, O.; 
question box ; appointments of committees, 
Auditing, Location and Resolutions; nomi- 
nation of officers for coming year. 
Thursday, June 10, 8:30 A. M.— Paper. 
“The O. A. C. S. & O., What It Is,” Chas. 
Crain, Tiffin, O. ; discussion; report of del- 
egate to national convention at St. Louis, 
1914, by President J. A. Reed, Canton, O. ; 
question box ; paper, by Karl Kern, assist- 
ant superintendent of Spring Grove Ceme- 
tery, Cincinnati, O.; discussion; report of 
committees ; unfinished business ; new busi- 
ness; election of officers; luncheon at Phil- 
lips House; talk by Chas. Wuichet, Day- 
ton, O. 
After lunch, take automobiles for ride 
and inspection of Calvary and Woodland 
cemeteries, Hills and Dales and the Na- 
tional Military Home. 
and color that harmonizes well with the 
iron work. 
The scroll work of both main entrance 
and the smaller side gates is designed in 
admirable good taste to secure a strong 
decorative effect, without being over- 
ornate or too much detached from the gate 
pattern itself. The ornament is a con- 
structive part of the fence, and is put on 
to last as long as the fence. 
NEW PUBLICATIONS REVIEWED. 
The National Conference on City Plan- 
ning announces the issue of a Classified 
Selected List of References on City Plan- 
ning, by Theodora Kimball, librarian of the 
School of Landscape Architecture at Har- 
vard University. Forty-eight pages; paper. 
Price, 50 cents. The list consists of about 
1,000 references on city planning, selected 
from many times that number with a par- 
ticular view to their professional value to 
those engaged in problems of city plan- 
ning. The references are arranged accord- 
ing to the comprehensive analysis of city 
planning, by which the city-planning col- 
lections of the Harvard School of Land- 
scape Architecture are classified. In this 
way Miss Kimball is making a presentation 
of the literature of city planning in its 
fundamental relations not previously at- 
tempted. The titles refer to material which 
is useful and available, representative, well 
illustrated, or suggestive of further ma- 
terial or particular points of view. In- 
quiries should be addressed to National 
Conference on City Planning, 19 Congress 
street, Boston, Mass. 
Warren H. Manning, the landscape ar- 
chitect, Tremont Bldg., Boston, Mass., has 
just issued the first number of “Billerica,” 
a brochure to be devoted to a complete 
study of the landscape of a broad area of 
country and town. The first issue is de- 
voted to the North Shore, Illinois, from 
the Skokie to the lake, including parts of 
Chicago, and the towns of Evanston, Wil- 
mette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Lakeside, 
Glencoe, Ravinia, Highland Park, High- 
wood, Fort Sheridan, Lake Forest, Lake 
Bluff, North Chicago and Waukegan. 
THE COVER ILLUSTRATION. 
OHIO CEMETERY ASSOCIATION TO MEET. 
