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PARK AND CEMETERY. 
The contract for the construction of a 
chapel in Greenwood Cemetery, Eureka, 
Kan., to cost $956, has been let to Henry 
Hamilton. 
At a meeting of the Town Board of 
Nashwauk, Minn., it was decided to 
spend $2,000 beautifying the Nashwauk 
Cemetery. 
Fairview Cemetery, Hyde Park, Bos- 
ton, Mass., is to have a new administra- 
tion building and chapel, if the recom- 
mendations of the Cemetery Commis- 
sion of the City of Boston are accepted 
by Mayor Curley and the City Council. 
The building will be erected from a fund 
of $11,000 which was turned over to the 
commissioners by the officials of the 
town of Hyde Park at the time of its an- 
nexation to Boston. 
The Ahvath Ahem Congregation, of 
Grand Rapids, Mich., is considering the 
purchase of a private cemetery. An 
acre of land on West Leonard street is 
now under consideration. 
New Hope Cemetery Association, of 
Spiro, Okla., was recently incorporated 
by T. D. Ainsworth, of Oak Lodge; I. 
J. Dais, of Braden; J. F. Casey, of Spiro, 
and J. H. Woford, of Spiro. 
Another new section of 800 lots in 
Oakview Cemetery, Royal Oak, Mich., 
has just been completed. 
Forest Hills Cemetery Co. of Dela- 
ware, Philadelphia, Pa., was recently in- 
corporated with a capital of $500,000 by 
Wray C. Arnold and Harold C. Lan- 
singer. 
The work ox building the chapel at 
the City Cemetery, of Baraboo, Wis., has 
been commenced. It will be 24x30 feet, 
of the bungalow type, and will cost 
about $2,500. 
A fence will soon be placed around 
Oneonta Cemetery, Duluth, Minn. 
Elmwood Cemetery Association, of 
Warren, 111., has purchased five acres of 
land. 
Work has-been commenced on the re- 
ceiving vault in the Pleasant Hill Ceme- 
tery, Lexington, 111. 
A meeting was held recently in Fair- 
view, 111., for the purpose of forming 
the Beers Cemetery Association! Mrs. 
Mary Beer, of London Mills, was elect- 
ed president and A. J. Gunnett secretary. 
The members of St. Joseph Church, 
Clinton, la., have formed an organiza- 
tion for the purpose of beautifying and 
caring for the Catholic Cemetery. The 
officers of the association are: William 
Hines, president, and Thomas Tiernan, 
secretary. 
The Greenwood Cemetery Board, of 
Canton, 111., is endeavoring to interest 
lot holders in that city to donate to the 
perpetual care fund. It is hoped to raise 
from $25,000 to $30,000. 
The Oakwood Cemetery Association, 
of Adrian, Mich., has finished a burial 
plat for Grand Army veterans. 
Sunken graves are being filled in and 
shaped at the City Cemetery, Nashville, 
Tenn., and the cemetery generally im- 
proved. 
The Cemetery Improvement Associa- 
tion, of Alton, 111., will replace the fence 
on the west side of the City Cemetery. 
The new cemetery at Lawrence, Kan., 
was recently improved by the construc- 
tion of a new concrete road. 
A movement has been on foot to mark 
in some way noticeable to passersby the 
small Bruner burying ground on the A. 
H. Rittenhouse farm, west of "Ontario, 
111 . 
Steps are being taken to improve El- 
lenwood Cemetery, Algorna, Wis. H. C. 
Christensen is heading a movement to 
organize an association to take charge 
of the cemetery. 
According to plans announced recent- 
ly, St. Alary's Cemetery, located south of 
Champaign, 111., will be improved. The 
work will include new driveways and 
new fences. 
The Sterling Township Cemetery, of 
Sterling, 111., is being cleaned up and 
improved. 
George Weishaar, superintendent of 
the Millington Cemetery grounds, Sand- 
wich, 111., is making improvements in 
the driveways. 
Crown Point Cemetery, Kokomo, Ind., 
has let the contract for the erection of 
an iron fence. 
During the past year Oak Grove Cem- 
etery, Fergus Falls, Minn., has been 
greatly improved. A fence has been 
erected and the grading and seeding 
dowm of four blocks was accomplished. 
The Oakwood Cemetery Association, 
of Galena, 111., has added two acres to 
their property and a new fence is to be 
built around the entire grounds. 
The establishment of 12-foot drive- 
ways on the east, north and west sides 
of the old county cemetery at First and 
Water streets, Maryville. Md., and the 
leveling of the old burying ground 
where many sunken places had resulted 
were recently finished. 
The Chinook Cemetery Association, of 
Great Falls, Mont., recently planted a 
shipment of ash and elm trees. Plans 
have also been made to install an irri- 
gation system, water being taken from 
the irrigation ditch, where a pump and 
tank are to be erected. 
The Cemetery Association of Hebron, 
111., will lay out additional grounds. 
Alt. Olivet Cemetery Co., Frederick, 
Aid., will erect a shelter house at a cost 
of about $1,300. 
A new fence, with posts of concrete 
and iron in the front, will soon sur- 
round Riverside Cemetery, Alolitie, 111. 
Tuinbled-down monuments will also be 
straightened. 
Work has been commenced on the im- 
proving of the Greenwood Cemetery 
grounds on the Lebanon car line at 
Greenwood station, about one and one- 
half miles from Edgemont, 111. The as- 
sociation, composed of East St. Louis 
business men, has appropriated several 
thousand dollars for the improvement 
of the drainage system, the resurfacing 
of roadways and the erection of retain- 
ing walls along the roadway which 
traverses the side of a hill. 
The City Cemetery, of Denton, Tex., 
has been generally improved and it has 
been proposed that someone be appoint- 
ed to take charge of the cemetery. 
A movement, endorsed by Alayor Wm. 
W. Pearce, of Waukegan, 111., has been 
started in that city to erect a comfort 
station in Oakwood Cemetery. 
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