GRAVEYARD FOR A DOG.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 411, 31 March 1904, Page 6

GRAVEYARD FOR A DOG.

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ilrs. Laura Hankin*. a wall-tn-do woman of this city, buried a p*t flrjg the other day, say* the Riehnond (Va.) correspondent of the New, T">rk ffrin. She intended to bury the animal beside her father's grave in Us* family square in Oakwood, but the faneral procession wa* stopped «i the gate and the authorities refused to permit tike burial af a fog in the ground*. %*

Mrs. Hankin* a? OSM psrehased the lot outside the eemetery wall. and with the assistance of a w«U> known undertaker and several carriage loads of sympathizing frisnda juried the little six-pound terrier. The dog died several months aga at Long Branch and was buried' w a zinc box. When Mrs. Hsnkins r*« turned she was inconsolabl* and decided to have the terrier's r*ms4a* removed here and buried by <tkt side of her father. The undertaker met the remains, which eaoe by -*>■ press, but *h» complete arrange" meni* for an elaborate f'uner*! T»r# npeet by the cercT-tenr oaiy to be cr.rried out »h»s morning whet fsed with handsome flowers and sotne : ears shad while a crowd of juriotjs people hung over the fence, watching the burial with more inter* est than reference. , %

Club JJoutf for Sslfoe*. The mo-rem?nt in behalf of the establishment of a cluh honse for •Unhed States sailnrs r.t V.."»;.i, Cal., has progressed so satisfactorily that the committee in fe?t 'nstified in having a design prefjaiei of the building. It will be situated on a lot opposite the Mare Island navy yard, on 'and purchased for that purposa with the prize money obr I hy Capt. B. H. McCalla, of the ish-American war, which he set aside for this object, A. Tathttlc Truth. A New York boy who was being tried in a police court, said: "If yer mother don't care for yer. yer ain't got no mother/ The judge wisely refrained, says the Chltwgv Kecori-Herald, from trying to disprove the statement.