The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-07-12
HELD THEIR ANNUAL
Cemetery Association Hears Reports
and Elects Officers.
From Tuesdays Daily.

| From Tuesdays Daily.
The annual election of the Mankato
Cemetery association was held late this
afternoon.
The annual report of the secretary, G.
A. Chapman for the year ending July g.
is as follows:
eve have sold during the year four
teen lots and seventeen single graves.
leaving now for sale 7O7 available lots.
Cash receipts for the year ending
July 9, 1907: From sales of lots
$1,000; single graves, 1886; digging
graves, $275; care, of lots, $676.G7; in
terest, $3.50; total receipts, paid into
treasury, S2,l73.02.
Expenditures for the same period ::
For salary of superintendent, $500;
salary of secretary, $50; labor, $SOS.76;
tools and supplies, SlS.73; flowers and
shrubbery, lt$24.50; fence, SlS7.5O:
freight on fence, s2l.93; freight on
tools, $I.95; hauling . cinders, $3.50;
grass seed, 1925; telephone, eleven
months, $3.50; printing and stationery,
$s.l5; postage, 50; premium on man
ayers bond, SlS.75; total, $2,OOl.52.
"The original cost of the cemetery
ground in 1869 was Sl,375; operating
expenses to date, S43495.73; monumen-
tai work, cost, $63,l92; total expended
on cemetery by the association and in
dividual proprietors, $l0S,066.73.
Number of proprietors forming the
association, 522. Under perpetual care,
10 lots"
The report of the board of managers
for the year ending June 80, 1907, show
ed that the balance in the fund July l.,
1906, was Sl0,3S6.44, that the depos
its during the past year were $l,l32,
making total of Sll5lS,44 The in
terest receipts were $5539s; total, $l2,-
O7242 Transferred to current fund for
care of lots, $3sO79; paid for recording
mortgage, 81; balance in fund July l.,
1907, Sll ,69O.63.
The fund is invested as follows: Real
estate mortgages, $4,000; certificates of
deposit in local banks, S7,SlS.02.
The board of managers is composed of
DIR. j. H. James, General j. H. Baker and
A. NJ. Smith.
The following is the report of the
actuary, William f. Jewson, for the year
ending July 8, 1907:
Total number of interments during
the year, 60. OF this number 81 were
males and % females. From 20 differ
ent states and Kingdoms; q causes of
DEATH The three oldest were 80, 80 and
% Alp respectively; the three youngest
6, % and 20 days. OF the q causes of
death, tuberculosis claimed Z, cancer 3,
heart failure 5, pneumonia 4, appended
tbs l, apoplexy 3, old age 3. The rest
from one to two each. Number of in
terments for the last five years, as fol-
lows: 1908, so; 1904, 40; 1905, AZ;
1906, Sc; 1907, 60. Total for five years,
253. Three removals have been made
from single graves to family lots
The report of Mr.. Jewson as super
intendent for the year ending July .,
1907, showed the amount on the ceme-
terry book, $79l, secretary's receipts,
$7S5.75, time checks issued S75S.76, mon
uments and markers to the value of
5000. and for $50 feet of iron fence
extension, $2l5. Old lots provided for
perpetual care, 7.
The annual report of c. E. Wise, the
treasurer, correspondent with the secre-
tary's, and showed a balance of $S99.
Three trustees to serve three years
were elected this afternoon. The
trustees met later and elected officers.