The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-03-30

pense connected with keeping up the
cemetery grounds, so that they will at
all times appear neat and pleasing to
the eye. During the last three years
the Topeka Cemetery association has
spent over s31, 900 for wages and ex-
pense in keeping up the Topeka ceme-
terry, and this does not include or have
anything to do with the expense of
purchasing the additional tract of
forty-nine acres. This will give the
public an idea of what the Tope>.
cemetery association is doing to i'm
prove the last resting place of a large
percentage of the population of To-
peka's dead.
Fourteen Men Kept Busy.
Most people do not realize that it
keeps fourteen men working constant
ly during the summer months, cutting
grass, watering the grass and flowers
and keeping up the streets and park
ings of this cemetery.
Some people gathered the idea
terry association that the lot owners
were not to be permitted to take care
of their own lots. This is a mistaken
idea, for the cemetery association is
only too glad to have the lot, own
ers take of their own lots, and not
only that, but are glad to give them
every assistance they possibly can in
doing so, as everything the lot own
srs do to improve their lots is just
that much more toward improving the
appearance of the cemetery, and that
is the point the cemetery association
is most interested in.
There, of course, are bound to be
number of those who do not take
any care of their cemetery property
at all - many who go to the
cemetery only when they go there to
bury their dead. There are others
who have planted shrubs on their lots,
which have been permitted to grow
up INTENDED, and not only appear I'M
attractive on their own lots, but in
jure the appearance of surrounding
lots. whose owners have done much
to have kept up in presentable ap-
pearance at all times.
Others have built fences around
their lots and left them to rot and de-
cay with exposure to the weather. and
the cemetery asso citation, thru the
benefits derived from it's perpetual
care fund. has been using much of
this accrued money to improve all
parts OF the cemetery, and to make it
attractive as a whole
Plans are right now being made
to put new cement wall along the
east side of the old cemetery, as well
as to build a dam across the ravine
which divides the land recently pur-
chased by the cemetery association
from the older division, and this dam
will not only be used as a dam to
form q beautiful lake to be surround
ed by shrubs and flowers, but will be
used as a road to drive across to that
portion on the west side of the dam.
To Be Beauty Spot of City.
ut is safe to say that within the
next five years the Topeka cemetery,
with its cement parked streets, ma
cadamized and cindered roads, it's
new lake, surrounded by shrubs and
flowers, its sixty years growth of the
most beautiful elm and maple trees
in our city, its beautiful monuments
and mauSoleumS, erected in memory
of the most prominent men of our city
and this part of the country, will be
an asset of which every citizen of the
city of Topeka will be justly proud.
The Topeka Cemetery association
invites the citizens of Topeka to
drive out and inspect the improve
ments they have been making, and
advise the officers if they do not ap-
prove of the improvements which