Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-03-31
CEMETERY BONE
lOF CONTENTION
in COURT SUIT
Property Owners Seek Injunction to
Restrain Association From
Using Grounds.
AGREE TO PAY FOR THE LAND
Petitioners Agree to Take Over
Gs Property Providing Margin for
- Organization.
The Hebrew Cemetery association

s. The Hebrew Cemetery association
has been made defendant in injunc-
:. ton proceedings to restrain it from
using the land it recently acquired
g in South Rock Island township for
cemetery purposes.
Property owners have filed the
bill in circuit court charging that
the cemetery will depreciate prop
erty values in the vicinity. The
property owners make an offer that
they agree to pay the association
/, the amount it expended for the
i. property, as well as to PROVIDE
agonable profit to take over such
IDS.
The suit is brought by Ken
worthy, Dietz, Shallberg, Harper
& Sinnett as attorneys for Fred
Wolfrum, Henry Wolfrum, Christ
ian Hildebrandt, Margaret Mathey,
Margaret Raithel, Mary Wolfrum.
Ii is set forth that the city of
Rock Island is bounded on the east
BIZ the city of Moline and on the
other sides by rivers, the only di-
rection of expansion, being in that
. part of South Rock Island township
not a part of the city of Rock Is
land.
In Path Of Growth.
The bill saws: THAT the said
city of Rock Island is so located
and situated that it's only opportun-
ity for expansion lies to the south
lDf the city limits of said city and
are embraced within the eastern
portion of the township/of South
Rock Island, which is not yet an
inexed to said city of Rock Island
and it's territory in which your
iorators reside.
THAT within the territory of the
township of South Rock Island
There now exists and have existed
for a great mapy years past
-four. cemeteries embracing approx
imately 200 acres of land, which
Esaid cemeteries have been dedicat-
led as cemeteries by various Gene
idery associations and corporations,
and which said cemeteries afford
ample facilities and will continue in
the future to afford ample facilities
for the burial of the dead of the
citizens of said city of Rock Is
land"
It is cited that in Chippiannock
cemetery are leo acres, in the Luth-
eran cemetery 10 acres and in two
other cemeteries are 10 acres each;
that about half of Chippiannock
cemetery is not in actual use for
cemetery purposes, the balance be-
ing held for future use, being
available for such persons as may
desire it,
The bill says that tracts along
Thirtieth street road from the
southern limits OF the city of Rock
Island south and almost to the
Hebrew cemetery land has been
laid out into city lots and is built
up with residences and is thiCkly
populated. :
Annexation is Up.
1t is alleged that petitions already
are in circulation for the purpose of
causing annexation to the city of
the lands which include the Hebrew
cemetery, and that the contention is
set forth thatno bodies have yet been
buried in the grounds and no con-
siderable amount of money has been
expended for Improvement.
The question of drainage and use
of surface wells in that locality also
is discussed.
The certificate of Incorporation to
the Hebrew Cemetery association
was issued Jan. 81, 1919, upon petit
ton of Samuel SIovdowsky, Israel
Zimmerman, Abraham Katz, Sam
uel Boxerman. Harry Morantz and
Isaac Weinstein-