Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 22, Number 203, Decatur, Adams County, 25 August 1924 — Page 3

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Owing to the fact that. Decatur has an abandoned cemetery on Winchester street, near the Nickel Plate depot, and that efforts have been made within recent years to convert the burial founds into a beautiful park, the above pictures will be of great internal to all local citizens, they being Proof of what can be done with an old cemetery. Sponsored by the American Legion of Van Wert, Ohio, the initial steps were taken to turn the old cemetery (above) into a beautiful

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i ] park, the result being shown in the j • : lower picture. The park is located within the city • limits of Van Wert and before being transformed into a beauty spot, stood 1 as an abandoned cemetery for thirty years. The American Legion started ! the campaign to remove the graves and a fund of $5,000 was raised, sl,000 being used for beautification of the grounds and the balance placed ;on interest, the revenue to be used i for its upkeep.

lof the Indiana Public Utility As[sociation today are in the midst of an extension and improvement campaign which will result in the expenditure .of 1100,000,000 in 1924. In the period when industry in gen-

DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT, MONDAY, AUGUST 25, 1924.

! ’ The park has been named, “Sol- ■ dier’s Memorial Park" and flower beds now grace the places where formerly the old toppled over tomb1 stones layed. The American Legion staged a home-talent play to obtain funds for its liberal donation, and pub-lic-spirited citizens, lodges and clubs contributed the balance. Work on the cemetery was started , February 4. 1924 and . the grounds I were dedicated as the “Soldier’s Memi orial Park” on July 4th.

eral has been standing still. Marshall V. Robb, secretary of the organization said, the utilities are going steadily forward. Tho estimate of $100,0(10,000 is based on an informal canvas made by the association among its members. This canvas revealed tho fact that the electrical industry is expending half of this amount. This includes the work being done by the Indiana and Michigan Electric Company in South Bend and the St. Joseph Valley; the Northern Indiana Gas and Electric Company, and the Calumet Electric Company in the Calumet region and the Southern Indiana Gas and Electric Company in and around Evansville. The expenditure, also covers tremendous projects being put under way by the Interstate Public Service Company including its new water power development on the Tippecanoe River near Monticello, with necessary high tension ines; the net work of Transmission Systems being erected by the Indiana Electric Cor- i poration to connect its various properties and customers with its new

In telling of the plans used by the! Van Wert Legion, Donald H. Smith, I chairman pf the Soldier’s Memorial Park Commitee, the following facts: “Ninety days notice was firstj given to those who cared to move the; bodies of their relatives or file com-! plaint with the County Commission- ! i ers. Few bodies were removed and ; instead of a flood of complaints, as I was naturally expected, there were; only a few mild inquiries and these , quickly turned to expressions of approval as soon as the facts were learn-

power station on the Wabash river near Terre Haute. It alsb covers the ! work being done by the Indianapolis ilight and Heat Company in the intensely populated Indianapolis Industrial district. I Berne Restaurant Owner Petitions Bankruptcy A petition in bankruptcy was filed in the United States district court at Fort Wayne Friday by Thomas L. Mitchell, restaurant owner of Herne. His debts totaling $1,551.30 included $17.32 for taxes, slls in secured claims and $1,418.98 in unsecured claims. His assets are $941 worth of personal property of which S6OO is claimed as exempt. 0 Work Started On New Bridge Over, Limber!ost Genevea, Aug. 25. —Work has been begun on the new bridge over the j Limberlost on the new state road right-of-way south of town and will Ibe rushed as rapidly as possible.

' ed. The tombstones were removed i to the northwest corner of the cernei tery and laid in rows, where they will prove a most interesting part of the I i park in years to come. It is sacred I J ground and will ever remain so.” I Mr. Smith suggested that if Deca- I ! tur had a similar condition, that one I I of the clubs, lodges, military organiza- I |tions or civic organization get ! i back of the proposition and conduct I the campaign to bring about the realization of a beautiful park.

• About twenty-five men are at work I • on the- bridge site and ten or twelve I ; ! teams being used to build the grade I j leading to it. Mr. McGreeyey, of I ■ Logansport, the contractor. says I there is a big fill to be made and that I the work will require considerable I time, thought he expects to have f everything finished tip before cold I I weather sets in. ij o 3 Cleveland —Miss Bertha McKinney. I has asked the local W. C. f T. U. to turn its fire on bathing P beauty contests which she says ‘have H attained the proportions of age nuine ■ evil comparable ( with that of the ■ . saloon in its palmiest days." Chicago—George Steele, a printer I by trade, took too much moonshine I and turned holdup man. Five vic ■r Ums at once were too many, hqwevet I and what was left of George they B t locked in a cell. Evanston. 111.. -While Max 1 ■ i er, justice of the peace, va s listen- | |ing to Charles G. Dawes' acceptnn-c B speech he felt a hand in his pock* t. B He arrested the owner, held night ■ court, and fined him S2OO.

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