Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1912 — ANOTHER ADDITION TO WESTON CEMETERY. [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER ADDITION TO WESTON CEMETERY.

Trustees Purchase Five and One-Half 5 Acres of Wilson Schafer; Low Ground Being Reclaimed.

A contract for the purchase of five and one-half acres of land of Wilson iSchaffer has been made by the trustees of WestcAi cemetery and the deal will be closed next spring. The land is just west of the property that the trustees recently purchased of Mrs. Beck, and has a house and other improvements on it. The consideration was $4,000. J. H. Holden, the sexton, is digging a lagoon at the west side of the cemetery, near the Maxwell ditch, which, when completed, w’ll be of considerable size. The work is all being done by hand by Mr. Holden and his helper and the dirt is being hauled away in wheelbarrows and used to fill up low sections of ground in the cemetery. The new lots thusly built will equal S6OO in value. After the lagoon is built and the new lots made the course of the driveway will be somewhat changed. It will be built along the side of the ditch, past the lagoon and will join the old driveway at the southwest end. '