The Coolidge examiner., 1932-12-09

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s. erection of private memorials to pri-
N< vate citizens in the form of mark
IL SEI ers over their graves and for the
IkM RxI statues, monuments and other
kN0&l memorials with which we honor
k our statesmen, military and naval
nmmRE leaders and other heroes. But how
shall we account for some of the
strange memorials which through the ages have
been set up by human hands and which man
continues to set up to great variety Of things.
both animate and inanimate To give a COM
plete catalogue of them would require no less
space than n book, but for an idea of their
variety consider some of these:
Perhaps queer an assemblage of monuments
as can be found in any one place on earth is
to be seen in cemetery at Mayfeld. KY where
burial plot contains fesize statues of the
dead members of family dressed in the
fashions Of their times. and the figures of vari-
Gus animals, among them a deer, which were
the pets OF the various generations OF the faml-
ly and were buried beside their masters
Ordinarily you wouldn't think that cheese
would be an appropriate object for a memorial
yet there is one. 1t stands near the little city
Of vimoutiers in France on the farm of GER
tain Beau Moncel where during the latter half
of the Eighteenth century lived Marie Harel
who is credited with being the inventor of Ca
membert cheese. Not only is the fame of this
4NoTHldn HlllkInalu cOmmemorated by this stone
shaft on the farm where she worked but in
Main Place in the city of vimoutiers itself is a
statue of her. back of which is n stone bas-
relief showing the farmhouse on the Marcel farm
where she was born in 1761. where she lived
until her death in 1917 and where she made the
new kind of cheese famous the world over
These monuments were erected through the
efforts of a New York DOCTOR Joseph Knrim
For many years he conducted n sanatorium In
Natr Xnr ,r,nr1
patients for all kinds of stomach ailments was
Pilsener beer and Camembert cheese Because
of his gratitude to the inventor of the cheese
with which he made so many people well and
saved their lives, he made romantic pilgrim
age to FimOutiers year or so ago. and the re-
suit was this most unusual of all monuments
1t was only year ago that news dis
patches carried the following story:
San Jose, Calif-A movement is in progress
here to erect monument to the memory sof
Louis Peller who. % years ago started the
prune industry in America.
Pellier came to California during the famous
gold rush of 1S49. Away from his sunny France
he missed the plums from his home locality
near Bordeaux. and wrote back for seeds and
cuttings, and searched the hills for roots of
wild species which his scions could he graft
ed. So interested did he become, he gave up his
quest for gold and gave the world the prune,
OeSiihIiHS Ntdt Is HoW u DIHOn DOLLAR industry.
From another part of the West at about the
same time came this story:
Fair Play Coo.-Prunes a burro will have
monument. Shot last month when he became
too feeble to eat after serving nearly every mine
in the region of Fair Play, he will have me-
mortal of samples of ore taken from all the
mines In which he worked.
Up in Alaska several years ago bronze
plaque bearing a has-relief of a mule and a
horse. was dedicated by the Ladies Of the Gold
en- North. an auxiliary of the Alaska Yukon Pi-
oneers, to perpetuate the memory of the faithful
pack animals both mules and horses who lost
their lives on the White Pass trail during the
Klondike gold rush days. With Gov George A
Parks of Alaska and George Black member of
the Canadian parliament from Yukon territory,
officiating. the dedication took place near In
spiraton point above the famous Dead Horse
gulch.
If you want to see how other members of the
equine world have been honored go down to
Lexington, KY, and drive out along the Win
chester pike until you come to Hamburg Place
the farm of ]. E. Madden. Nesting in little
grove of trees on this farm is what is thought
to be the only cemetery for horse celebrities
in the world. Dominating the grassy plot of
stone wall stands statue of horse Upon the
foundation which the statue stands is this
inscription Nancy Hanks 2:04" For this is
the last resting place of the world champion
trotter from 1892 to 1894.
Even more traditional than love of man for