The Chicago whip. (Chicago, Ill.) 1919-19??, 1922-02-25
BEAUTIFUL MT. GLENWOOD
The Coming Cemetery of Chicago and
Cook County

Mount Glenwood Cemetery, located
twenty-five miles south of the City
Hall, between the villages of Thorn
ton and Glenwood, contains ono hun
! dred and three acres, more or less, OF
land which has been improved at an
expense OF Two Hundred Thousand
| (S2O0,000) Dollars, which improve
ments consist of landscaping. macad
am roadways, trees, shrubbery, three
sets Of ornamental iron gates, a chapel
and perintendent's quarters with
modern improvements. Thorn Creek
runs through the cemetery, adding
greatly to the natural beauty OF the
grounds. The cemetery is sur
rounded by a county forest preserve
and thereby receives the beheht of the
natural beauty OF those tracts.
The cemetery contains fifty thou
sand lots OF which approximately FL
twenty-five thousand additional lots
are TO be sold within siN-month per
iod commencing Feb. |. 1922 The re
naming lots will be divided up into
single graves Tor single burials for the
future. One-half OF the cemetery has
been fully developed. laid ont, beaut-
fed and completed The same work
on the remaining portion viii be fin
shed N the early summer of 1922 A
complete waterWorks will be built and
IN operation about that time. for the
purpose OF supplying water through
ont the ccmetery
Los up to and including tie pre=out
tius aaFo been old ~ prices ranging
Is)a S15dD TO S4Od0l There Hcrr
no Ipt, sold iJr an 80 Dan s. 00
sinac the present improvements W,re
completed.
1t IS now proposed by officers of
the cemetery to sell the twenty-five
thousand lots for the fat price of
$4,000 each, instead of $500 and up
wards, as heretofore These lots are
to be sold on the installment plan
The purchaser will pay $1,000 down
upon the signing of the contract and
$1,000 or more per month until the
full purchase price is paid. In addition
to title to the lot the purchasers shall
each receive two shares Of stock for
each lot purchased by them, which
stock IS now being sold for $500 per
share. The lot owners will have a
double interest in the cemetery. that
of lot owner and that OF stockholder
Ns a par OF the revenue OF the
company about SLS0 ner wear 71ill be
collected from each LEI owner as a
uScd eNpcu-e ior Watering the lots
and cutting The ara-s aar the purpose
on keeping the cemetery in frst-cla~-
condition his Is sum consider
ably les ta4n Is usually charged be-
other cemeteries for like services
Ii eauHof be toe strongly cmphd-
sized and boruc in mud hat while the
cemetery IS ono OF th' most brantifuI
and attractire ia the CaH Oh Chicago
and lis enVirous, vet the price Of
$1,000, not TO include the stock bonus
which is easily worth $1,000. represents
about Is per cent OF the selling of
lots in the average cemetery
Dc not fail TO secure one OF fbese
choice lots while thcv lasts~I L j. The
coming 0als Woods Of cemeteries in
this city Every family and house
holder should own lot thereby pro-
vidnp Tor the future for our bereaved
ones Just as we do in everything else.
Agents will call and see YOU upon
request and furnish full information.
Call the office by Phone Victory 6254
or visit our office at 3125 S State
Street Come and select a choice lot
while you can.
MT. GLENNOOD CEMETERY
ASSOCIATION
3125 s. State Street.