Morning journal and courier., 1886-02-09
EVERGREEN CEMETERY.

The Evergreen Cemetery Association Hold Their Annual lNeeting-Reports Read And Directors Elected. The annual meeting of the Evergreen Gem etery association was held last evening and was attended by about fifty interested persons. The report of the directors of tn @ association, James D. Dewell president, was as follows: Your directors hereby make the following return of their doings for the year just ended. Soon after the last annual meeting permission was granted by the legis- lature for the issuing of $30, ,000 non-taxable bonds, which act has been accepted by the association and $7, 900 of bonds sold at par, leaving $23, ,000 in the treasurer's hands to be used as the needs of the cemetery may require. The filling up with white gravel of the lake has been nearly completed; about $9, 900 has been expended and $2, 900 more will be required to finish the work. Having made several unsuccessful efforts to purchase the land adjoining and lying between our grounds and Davenport avenue, we have brought action to have the same condemned as provided by statute law, and the matter is now in the courts under charge of At torneys filling and Webb. To provide for
 
 moved the barn into that portion of the grounds purchased in 1883, known as the savings bank lot, and have improved it's old location, corner of Winthrop and Davenport avenues, by fencing, to correspond with the main line, and have partially graded and curbed the enclosure; all at total cost of about $2, 200. Quite number of plots have been sold in this newly improved section. In response to circular issued to lot owners, with general improvement of the old part in view, we received answers from about one hundred assenting to the plan AR preliminary to the work all that portion lying between Spring and Oak ave- nues has been surveyed and stakes driven. It should be the duty of the board of direc tors to go forward with the grading of the avenues and paths, to be followed by lot i'm provements as far as has been or may be or dered by the owners. It is gratifying to your directors to notice the increased interest man ifested b., the lot owners in Evergreen, and that year by year beautiful and substantial monuments are set up. During the past year many accessions of this nature have been added; notably the monument of John c. Anderson. The placing by very few lot owners of metal monuments has been griev- ous to large majority of the members who take the deepest interest in the association. And your directors by unanimous vote re- solved to prohibit the further admission of such material, excepting by consent of the board. The receipts from sale of lots has fallen slightly from the previous year, owing in part te the lack of business prosperity and to the general good health of the commu- nifty.
 Directors-J. D. Dewell, John P. Futile, George Blakeman, Edward c. Beecher, Fred H. Waldron.
 The report of Secretary English gave the following facts:
 Number of interments the present year, 362.
 Number of interments to date, 6,52s.
 Number of lots sold, 39.
 Number of single graves, 79.
 Old claims of disputed titles unsettled, 12.
 Accounts due for turing, curbing, care, n4n A1 ORO 2d