I used to put 'em in Tidbits but not sure where Jef'll put 'em = he'll get 'em up somewhere :) THANKS ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim & Roger Hancock" <hancock@link2000.net> To: <inmontgo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2008 1:26 AM Subject: [InMontgo] The Old Town Cemetery > Is there a catagory for general postings of the City council or Cemetery > > >> Crawfordsville Weekly, July 27, 1894 >> > > THE OLD TOWN CEMETERY > > Two Hundred and Twenty-Two Bodies Exhumed - The City Building to Be > Papered > and plastered- Other Matters. > > The council met Monday evening at a late hour with Measrs, Thomas and > Robinson absent, both being out of the city. > Mr. Myers made remarks favoring the opening of Oak street, he and the > engineer having made a survey of it. > The Board of Public Improvements was granted further time to consider > the proposed addition of Mr. Ireland and also on the request of W. M. > Darter > for the vacating of eight feet on Grant avenue in front of his residence. > J. H. Cook, as the superintendent of the work of exhumation of the > bodies in the vacated portion of the old town cemetery, reported that 222 > bodies had been exhumed. Of these 208 had been reinterred in the old town > cemetery and 16 removed to other cemeteries. The expence of removal was > in > the neighborhood of $375. Of the bodies exhumed 174 were those of unknown > persons. > The question of placing two arc lights in front of the Cathlolic > church > for Rev. J. R. dinnen's jubilee came up, but was not disposed of, no one > making a motion to put the thing through. > Mr. McCampbell very properly roasted the miserable crossing now > running > across Main street from Myers & Charni's store and on motion a brick > crossing was ordered put in. > It was moved and carried to repair the city building with paper, > paint, > etc., and it was decided to receive bids for the same at the next meeting. > A large photograph of the floral tributes at the funeral of the late > W. > Vanarsdall was presented to the council by the family of the deceased and > received a vote of thanks. > Gen. Lew Wallace was present and stated to the council that he had a > petition to present to them signed by nearly all the business men in town > and about 200 young men. At his suggestion it was voted to have a called > meeting on Thursday evening to consider the petition which relates to the > purchase of uniforms for Company B. > The resolutions calling out the city commisioners to consider the > opening and extentions of Oak street from College to Haw was unanimously > passed. > The question of the purchase of the lot just north of the city > building > came up but nothing was done, the council holding a secret after meeting > to > consider the question. > The council adjourned without further business. > > http://ingenweb.org/inmontgomery/ > > List Manager - inmontgo-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > INMONTGO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message