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.