Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1911 — A Question [ARTICLE]

A Question

and a comparison. A recent burial at Lowell revealed a condition which shocked the father and mother who had about one year ago laid away a loving child in a cement vault. The vault was opened to have the body placed in one of the snow-white tombs of the Lowell Mausoleum. The cement vault, costing S2OO, was opened and to the heart-broken parents a sight was revealed too distressing to be seen—it was filled to the brim with water. The- last kind act’ which parents could bestow to their loved one turned ,t ra ’ tor and made the cold unfriendly grave more horrible by forming a receptacle for that which they intended to keep out. Could such a condition exist within the marble palace about to be erected in this community in which 4now-white tombs in corridors of marble, with mosiac floors, opalescent glass in windows of solid bronze castings? Exist? Absolutely. No! These tombs will be sold at the low cost of $l5O during the promotion of the building, when it is completed the price will be advanced. The proposed structure here is to be one of the most extravagent in artistic beauty and wifi be the elite of mausoleum entombment. xx / .