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theran Cemetery Association, of Prince- 
ton, Ind., were filed recently. The articles 
are signed by H. M. Gast, Willis Florence, 
A. G. Fraser, W. L. Gast and J. C. Scott. 
Georgetown Cemetery Association, of 
Pottsboro, Grayson County, Tex., has been 
incorporated by Isaac Clement, W. H. 
Sharp and E. A. Wright. 
A viaduct has been constructed in 
Crystal Springs Cemetery, Benton Har- 
bor, Mich. The structure connects the 
two sections of the cemetery, separated 
by a valley, and was designed by City 
Engineer Wightman. It is over 100 feet 
long and cost $5,000. It is the plan of 
the board to retain the south section of 
Crystal Springs exclusively for perpetual 
care lots. 
Plans are under way to incorporate 
the Emmanuel Cemetery Association at 
Bluffton, Ind., and a complete plat of the 
grounds has been prepared. The trus- 
tees of the present association are J. C. 
Raber, William Hoover, Samuel Rarick, 
and Joseph McClure. 
The receiving vault at the Pleasant 
Hill Cemetery, Bloomington, 111., is now 
completed and ready for use. 
The Shiloh Cemetery Association, 
Hopedale, 111., has been incorporated by 
John Weimeier, J. H. Henderson, W. E. 
Fleniken, Jacob Thomas and others. 
Grading has been begun on the new 
addition to Monmouth Cemeteryq Mon- 
mouth, Til. 
The Cropsey Cemetery, McDowell, 
111., has been cleaned up and put into 
good condition. 
The Dupont Cemetery Association was 
recently incorporated at Dupont, Ind., 
by S. E. O’Neal, P. A. Graston and V. 
Shepherd. 
The Cemetery Association, of DeKalb, 
111., has relaid the stone walk along the 
front of the grounds and has cemented 
the outside and marked it off in imitation 
of stone. 
Green Park Cemetery Association, 
Portland, Ind., is contemplating the 
platting and draining of AVz additional 
acres this fall. 
The new Riverside Park Cemetery, at 
Spokane, Wash., was opened some time 
in September. The cemetery contains 
seventy acres of land, which was devel- 
oped according to plans prepared by 
Mr. Babcock and Frank B. Gibson; of 
Los Angeles, Cal. The ground lies 
among sloping hills and the native pines 
add much to the natural beauty of the 
place. The scheme of roads is worked 
out in the form of clover leaves, making 
the various plots of ground circular or 
oblong. The plan provides that every 
burial lot will be square with the com- 
pass and every grave will run east or 
west. The cemetery will be maintained 
on the lawn park plan. J. D. Sherwood 
is president, and W. A. Corey secretary 
of the company. 
E. C. Boyd, of Chicago, has purchased a 
PARK AND CEMETERY. 
237-acre farm near Rockford, 111., where 
he will establish a cemetery. The price of 
the farm was $35,500. 
An organization has been formed at Sul- 
phur Springs, Ark., for the care of Butler 
Creek Cemetery. J. M. Jones was chosen 
secretary. 
A new cemetery will soon be opened at 
Maddock, N. D. 
The city of Neenah, Wis., will appro- 
priate $2,000 each year for the improve- 
ment of its cemetery. 
The new addition to Oak Grove Ceme- 
tery, Washington, Ind., is being developed 
and the grounds will soon be opened for 
interments. 
It is proposed to make the driveway at 
the entrance of Oak Grove Cemetery, Hills- 
boro, 111., circle around the soldiers’ mon- 
ument and to make the gates leading into 
the cemetery west of the soldiers' monu- 
ment instead of south of it, as it is now 
located. The officials are also planning to 
build a new fence around the cemetery. 
Concrete posts with woven wire will be 
used. 
The Ferndale Cemetery Association has 
been incorporated at Wyandotte, Mich., 
with a capital stock of $162,500. 
The cemetery of the First Presbyterian 
Church, of Chili, N. Y., has been generally 
improved. The old wooden fence in front 
of the grounds has been removed and an 
iron one erected in its place. 
Work on the Pine Hill Cemetery park 
at Cheboygan, Mich., will be started very 
soon. Cement walks will intersect in the 
center, near which a beautiful fountain 
will be built. Flower beds will be laid out 
and each lodge in the city will have its 
own flower bed. 
Mount Holly Cemetery, Little Rock, Ark., 
was recently cleaned up and improved. 
The Brethren denomination, of Leeton, 
Mo., which lias maintained a cemetery, 
offers to turn it over to the town if ar- 
rangements are. made to properly care 
for it. 
Plans have been completed for the im- 
provement of the Sixth street tract known 
as the old cemetery, of Newark, O., which 
will conform in every way with the de- 
cision of the Supreme Court which gave 
the city title to the property so long as it 
was used as a cemetery. Ornamental gate 
posts will be placed beside each of the 
walks entering the property. 
A Ladies’ Cemetery Association has been 
organized at South Henderson, 111. 
W. H. Sloan, superintendent of River- 
side Cemetery, Three Rivers, Mich., re- 
cently erected cement foundations through- 
out the grounds for the iron seats. 
The paving of High street from Main 
street to the cemetery, Des Moines, la., 
was discussed at a recent meeting of the 
Commercial Club, and a committee was 
appointed to lay the matter before the 
town council. 
An eightv-acre tract of land, lying to the 
west of Waukegan, 111., and yet within the 
corporate limits of Waukegan, is being 
purchased by four Catholic churches of 
Waukegan and North Chicago for ceme- 
tery purposes. 
The new subdivision to Green Mount 
Cemetery, Belleville, 111., is being improved. 
The ground has been platted and the en- 
tire tract is being tile-drained. Concrete 
curbing and gutters are being built and 
driveways constructed. 
A delegation of women headed by Mrs. 
Tom Barker appeared before the mayor 
and city commissioners of Kansas City, 
Kas., recently to ask that $20,000 be in- 
cluded in the budget of city expenses for 
3916 for the improvement of Oak Grove 
Cemetery. This cemetery was taken for 
a park by the city several years ago. 
Lincoln Gardens Cemetery Association 
has been incorporated at Mishawaka, Ind., 
with a capital of $50,000, by M. W. Mix, 
J. A. Herzog and C. W. Cole. 
The Golden Rule Cemetery Association 
has been incorporated at Centralia, 111., by 
S. G. Holcomb, J. L, Davis and N. T. Rude. 
The Sparks Cemetery Association was 
incorporated recently at Easton, Kans. with 
no capital. 
The Hillside Cemetery Association, of 
Columbus, Wis., has purchased a sixteen- 
acre addition to the cemetery, of which 
only a portion is to be developed at once, 
although the landscape plan for the entire 
tract has been made by E. H. Niles, of 
Oconomowoc, Wis. . 
The trustees of Cedar Bluff Cemetery, 
Rockford, 111., recently secured a tract of 
land east of the original cemetery, which 
is now being improved and developed. A 
nursery was purchased and shrubs, trees 
and flowers have been set under the direc- 
tion of an experienced landscape architect. 
J. H. Sabin has charge of the surveying 
of the ground and Mr. Westphal is super- 
intending the improvement work. Robert 
Trigg is president of the association. 
Greenwood Cemetery Association, of St. 
Clair County, East St. Louis, 111., has been 
incorporated with a capital of $10,000 by 
W. K. Cannady, Thomas J. Healy and 
Maurice V. Joyce. 
Articles incorporating the Union Ceme- 
tery Association of Mt. Horeb, Wis., have 
been filed with the register of deeds. 
Work has been commenced on the ten- 
acre tract purchased for Oakhurst Ceme- 
tery, Whitehall, Mich. 
The new Murrayville (111.) village cem- 
etery of eight acres will cost the town 
$1,980. The village will soon have two or 
three acres surveyed and laid out in burial 
lots. 
A movement has been recently started 
for the reorganization of the Blue Mound 
Cemetery, of Cooksville, 111. A meeting 
was recenty held in Cooksville, at which 
time a new constitution and by-laws were 
adopted and plans made to incorporate un- 
der the name of the Blue Mound Ceme- 
tery Association. 
