The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-03-25
PETITION FOR BETTER CARE
Of THE CITY CEMETERY
Council Will Consider Plan of Instituting
A Greater Fund for Maintenance
of Oak Hill

AT the meeting of the City Council
Monday evening. a petition was pre-
sented signed by 90 of the merchants
and leading taxpayers OF the city.
relative to the better maintainence
of the city cemetery. The petition
asks that the council institute a special
cemetery fund, maintained by the sale
of cemetery lots, which shall be used
in keeping all of the lots, besides the
walks and roadways of the cemetery
in good condition, also that the city
water mains be extended to the GEM
etery, so that the shrubbery can be
kept green during the hot summer
months. The petition was referred TO
the committee ON cemeteries, who
will report their investigation at the
next meeting of the council, on Mon
day evening, April 18th Following
is copy of the petition as presented
to the council:
To the Honorable Mayor and Com
mon Council of the City OF Ply.
mouth, Indiana:
Gentlemen:
We the undersigned, citizens and
taxpayers OF the city OF Plymouth,
md, and many of us owners OF lots
n Oak Hill cemetery, hereby repre-
sen. 10 your honorable body that said
cemetery ought TO be regulated and
Kept in condition by special ceme-
;ery fund set aside from the sale OF
OTIS therein, in excess OF their cost to
the general fund of said city and that
she funds should be kept separate
and apart in order that all profit on
the sale OF cemetery lots might be
properly rrsed for the betterment and
identifying of said cemetery.
Under the present method the sal
ary of the sexton is insufficient to
pay him for keeping UP the walks and
streets, or the various lots in proper
condition during the summer months
and lot owners are compelled to pay
privately TO keep lots in any kind Of
fair condition, and in many cases
where the friends and relatives of
deceased persons inferred Bin said
cemetery, are non-residents or are
also deceased, the lots on which said
deceased persons are buried are neg
lec;ed and tend to mar the beauty
and uniformity that should mark a
well regulated and we'll kept GENE
terry.
We further represent that in dry
times during the summer months,
there is no method OF obtaining a
water supply ito keep up the grass
and flowers, and the same wrther and
dry up and cannot be kept in de-
cent condition, and that the city wat
er mains ought to be extended in and
to said cemetery in order that the
same may be kept in respectable con-
dition during such times OF drought
We must respectfully call your
honorable Dody's attention to these
matters, and pray that you may cause
proper ordinances to be enac ted
| looking toward better mode and
method OF keeping up said cemetery
n the future and in uniform man
ner, and for ordinances for the prop
er payment OF sufficient salary to
sexton that such improvements
may be accomplished.
Signed by 80 business men and tax.
payers.
Other Council Business.
The regular meeting of the city
council was held at he city hall Mon
day evening, with all members pres
ent
Permission was given c. w. Nets
ker to tap the alley sewer back OF
Michigan street, and to Mrs. Ida Kill
mer to tap the south Michigan street
sewer
A petition OF Luther R. Cressner to
build curb at his residence on Adams
| street, and to build sidewalks next TO
curb, was referred to the committee
on streets and ALLEYS.
The contract bond of the Central
Paving Co OF Rochester, who were
awarded tie contract for laying the
pavement in this city this spring, was
approved The bond was in the sum
of $4,000.
The mayor reported that south
Plum street, in the vicinity of the
residence OF Mrs. Lillian Knapp, was