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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The Woodlawn Cemetery Association, 
of St. Peter, Minn., has re-elected Ed 
Bornemann president and elected E. E. 
Miller secretary. 
The Na-Au-Say Cemetery Associa- 
tion, of North Seward, 111., has elected 
Mrs. Hayes Wheeler president and Mrs. 
Hattie Ringberg secretary. 
J. A. Hardy, Sr., was recently re- 
elected president and T. J. Roney secre- 
tary of the Mt. Hope Cemetery Associa- 
tion, of Joplin, Mo. 
At the election of officers of the La- 
dies’ Cemetery Association, of Troy 
Grove, 111., recently, the following were 
elected: President, Miss Alice Hess; 
secretary, Mrs. Mabel Zorn. 
The Hart Cemetery Improvement As- 
sociation, of Hart, Mich., has elected C. 
A. Joslin president and Mrs. Luke sec- 
retary. 
The Grover Cemetery Association, of 
Grover, Colo., will beautify the cemetery 
grounds by the addition of trees and 
shrubs and employ a regular sexton. G. 
W. Parker was elected president and E. 
C. Abbey, Jr., secretary. 
New Cemeteries and Improvements. 
Twenty acres of the New Highland 
Cemetery at South Bend, Ind., have 
been developed and will soon be opened 
for interment. The cemetery contains 
fifty-seven acres in all. Plans were 
drawn by O. C. Simonds, of Chicago, 
and provide for an office, a chapel and a 
superintendent’s house, all of which are 
to be of stucco with roofs of green tile. 
Simplicity will be the distinguishing fea- 
ture of all the buildings, and the color- 
ing will harmonize with the natural sur- 
roundings. 
The Society for the Preservation of 
Spanish Antiquities will begin the work 
of putting the old cemetery at Santa Fe, 
N. Mex., or Campo Santo, with its mor- 
tuary chapel, in good order again. This 
was the first walled cemetery in New 
Mexico. 
The City Council of Virginia, Minn., re- 
cently passed a resolution appropriating 
$2,000 to the Greenwood Cemetery Associa- 
tion and $1,000 to Calvary Cemetery for 
improvements. 
The Evergreen Cemetery Association 
was recently incorporated at Odem, San 
Patricio County, Tex., by J. L. Allen, Mag- 
gie Cherry and B. M. Reiley. 
The Topeka Cemetery Association, To- 
peka, Kan., has just purchased a 45-acre 
tract of land adjoining the present ceme- 
tery on the south which will be improved 
at once and platted and placed on the mar- 
ket. The lots in the new tract will be sold 
on the perpetual care plan and the western 
section reserved for negroes. 
The officers of the McCord Cemetery, 
Hillsboro, 111., recently erected a fence 
around that cemetery. The fund for this 
purpose was raised by private subscription. 
The Union Cemetery Association, Ma- 
rengo, 111., recently added another acre of 
land to its present boundaries. Many shade 
trees have also been planted by the associa- 
tion. 
Among the improvements that the Fair- 
lawn Cemetery Association, Decatur, 111., 
is making is the drainage of the great cen- 
tral draw in the cemetery tract. The cen- 
tral basin of the cemetery has Stevens 
Creek on the south for its natural outlet. 
Some of the ground is quite low and the 
drainage plan now being carried out pro- 
vides for the rapid carrying off of all 
storm water. 
The Shiloh Cemetery Association, Bur- 
lington, la., recently filed articles of incor- 
poration with County Recorder Young- 
strom. This organization is located in 
LInion Township and the capital stock is 
$2,000, divided into shares of $10. The in- 
corporators are : Paul B. Smith, Fred A. 
Peterson, D. S. Murphy, C. E. Staff, P. S. 
Hoverson, Harry Underwood, Chas. John- 
son, Stephen Smith, F. W. Romkey and 
Henry Magel. 
The new addition to East Side Ceme- 
tery, Hutchinson, Kan., has been opened 
and the cost of burials has been cheap- 
ened. 
At a recent meeting of the Business Men’s 
League, of Carthage, Mo., a committee was 
named by President Louis Gratz to con- 
sider improvements for the southeast part, 
or old portion, of Park Cemetery and the 
establishing of a maintenance fund. 
Definite plans for beautifying Llano Cem- 
etery, Amarillo, Tex., have been agreed 
upon by the County Commissioners. The 
raising of the large water tank to a height 
of several feet is about the most important 
improvement. 
A protest signed by Frank Shulty and 
fifty-six others was presented to the Com- 
mon Council recently against the locating 
of the Mishawaka (Ind.) proposed new 
cemetery on the Gernhart farm at the foot 
of Indiana avenue, and along the south and 
cast banks of the St. Joseph River. 
Marietta Cemetery, Barnes, 111., recently 
purchased a new plot of ground which is 
being cleared off and improved for burials. 
After a number of requests by the citi- 
zens of Fort Collins, Colo., the city has 
decided to open Section A on the main 
drive at Grandview Cemetery for single 
graves. This section will be under the per- 
petual care plan. 
Articles of incorporation have been filed 
for the Reform Church Cemetery Associa- 
tion at Monroe, S. D. The trustees are: 
Reiser Raberger, T. W. Mieas, Henrv H. 
Buss and others. 
The Cemetery Association at Edinburg, 
111., recently gave a program at Etherton’s 
Opera House, the proceeds of which went 
towards the improvement of the cemetery. 
Two gates, several flower urns and ma- 
terial for driveways through the cemetery 
have been bought. 
THE OBITUARY RECORD. 
John F. Cowell, director of the South 
Park Botanical Gardens, of Buffalo, N. 
Y., for the last twenty years, died sud- 
denly last month of heart disease. Pro- 
fessor Cowell leaves one daughter, Mrs. 
Adelaide Moulthrop, and a son, Francis 
W. Cowell. Professor Cowell was a 
botanist of international repute and an 
authority on orchids and tropical plants. 
He got home only two weeks before his 
death from a trip to Cuba and Jamaica, 
where he went in search of new varie- 
ties of plants. On this trip he was ac- 
companied by Dr. Britton, who has 
charge of the New York Botanical Gar- 
dens. In the opinion of William F. 
Kasting, former park commissioner of 
Buffalo, Professor Cowell was the ablest 
botanist in the country and had charge 
of botanical gardens surpassed, perhaps, 
only by the Kew Gardens in London. 
“At the South Park Gardens,” said Mr. 
Kasting, “there are the finest collections 
of trees, shrubs and plants that are to be 
found anywhere in this country. Pro- 
fessor Cowell had a faculty for adding 
collections that cost the city nothing. I 
know that many collections have been 
obtained in this manner at no cost to 
the park department. Every botanist 
will regret his death. He was a man of 
unassuming character who knew floricul- 
ture and horticulture as few others know 
these subjects.” Professor Cowell spent 
much time in producing hybrid plants 
and flowers, but never commercialized 
any of his products. He specialized in a 
single variety of chrysanthemum. The 
annual chrysanthemum show held at the 
South Park conservatory was a wonder 
and a joy to all lovers of flowers. Pro- 
fessor Cowell was 63 years old. He was 
born in Boston, Mass. Before entering 
the employ of the Buffalo Park Depart- 
ment he was principal of one of the pub- 
lic schools. He was a member of the 
Buffalo Florists’ Club, the Western New 
York Horticultural Society, the Society 
of American Florists, and the American 
Association of Park Superintendents. 
He was a close friend of Luther Bur- 
bank. For several years he lectured at 
the University of Buffalo on botany. 
Henry F. Elbers, formerly in charge of 
Humboldt Park, Buffalo, has been ap- 
pointed to succeed Professor Cowell. 
John Hopkins Shepard, who for the past 
twenty-five years has been connected with 
the development and management of cem- 
eteries, died at Syracuse, N. Y., February 
1, 1915. Mr. Shepard was born at Plants- 
ville, Conn., January 20, 1849, of May- 
flower ancestry. The family for several 
generations had lived there. His father was 
a florist and nurseryman and until 1882 he 
was associated with him in the business. 
He went to Grand Forks, N. D., in 1882, 
and later to Odessa, on Lake Minnewau- 
kon, where he helped organize Ramsey 
