Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1912 — Cemetery Board Buys the Mrs. E. Beck Property. [ARTICLE]

Cemetery Board Buys the Mrs. E. Beck Property.

The cemetery trustees have bought the Mrs. Beck property at the west side of town, consisting of the residence and outbuildings and 3.8 acres of ground., and will add it the present cemetery grounds. The price paid is $2,000, and possession wiH be given next spring. The ground across the Maxwell ditch at the west side of the old cemetery and south of the Robinson property, adjoining the Beck property, was already owned by the cemetery, but considerable of this is quite low. It is the intention to put a bridge across this open ditch some time later and connect the two tracts. The board has enough money on hand to pay all cash for. .the new purchase. Unfortunately the ridge of ground on which Weeton cemetery is located is very limited in extent, and it is surrounded on three sides by low ground. There has been some talk hentofore of buying the Mrs. Zard property across the road on the north, which is good high ground, but it would divide the cemetery by a public highway that could not be well abandoned. In The Democrat’s opinion, if the massoleum idea could 'be worked out satisfactoriliy, it would be the thing, as this and cremaition is the modern way of disposing of our dead. Were this done the question of room for burial purposes would be settled for many years to come.