Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1905 — A MUCH NEEDED IMPROVEMENT. [ARTICLE]

A MUCH NEEDED IMPROVEMENT.

The cement sidewalk recently ordered in by the city council, leading to the cemetery, is now being constructed and will make a decided improvement. The cemetery trustees are extending the walk clear along the front of the cemetery and Thomas Robinson will extend it from there to bis resdence a few rods west. When the walk is completed it is likely that Weston cemetery will be more generally visited on pleasant Sunday afternoons than it ever has been. The grounds are kept in excellent condition by Sexton Schanlaub, in fact, we do not believe there is a cemetery in this section of the state that presents a neater and more well attended appearance than that of Weston cemetery. Another much needed improvement now is grading and macadamizing of the street leading to the cemetery, and it is to be hoped that this will be done at an early date. With a good cement sidewalk and a well graded street leading thereto, no more attractive “city of the dead” can be found anywhere than our own.