Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1912 — Growing Fund for Cemetery Upkeep Pleasing to Trustees. [ARTICLE]

Growing Fund for Cemetery Upkeep Pleasing to Trustees.

The board of trustees in charge of Weston cemetery have been receiving some money occasionally from various sources for the upkeep of the cemetery and some of the graves. The fund now amounts to about 9400. It received a big boost last year when George Hosmer, who makes his home at the Makeever hotel, gave the trustees SIOO. The gift was very gratefully received and if others were as thoughtful of the future it would not take long to have a fund of sufficient amount to be placed to some good use. “ : ~ • • •

Several cities the size of Rensselaer or a little larger have small chapels erected in the cqjjetery where a short service can be held or where the casket can be kept for a short time and the friends of the dead assemble when the weather is disagreeable. A very fine( little chapel is located at Wabash and A. F. Long, one of the trustees, thinks it would be a gobd model to build from. Probably not more than SI,OOO or $1,500 would be required for this purpose. It is a. deserving opportunity for a well placed charity and might appropriately bear the name of the doner as a memorial. Mr. Hosmer has been quite liberal with Rensselaer during the past year. He gave SIOO to the building fund of the M. E. church and he has decided to give SIOO toward the purchase of books for the public library. His generosity In these matters has made him many admirers and he has set an example worthy the emulatidn of others.