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City Commission Expected to Grant Kiwanis Plea for Athletes.CHOLERA CEMETERY SITEClub Will Build Fence; Manager Asks Permission to Buy Coal.City commissioners in regular s^s-sion Into Monday afternoon discussedlot length the advisability Df grantingpermission to the Kiwanis club to use 'the abandoned cholera, rernetery on■ Harrison s! for use. by the High school football loam, and as an athletic field. City Solicitor Stephens was instructed to prepare necessary legislation ar.ilit will probably be passed on first read-Jng at the meeting next .\icrday asad of the commissi oners seemed favorable to the. project.A petition form the Kiwmis club signed by the president, the Hev, .\■ 3*. H. Moor, asked the commissioners to grant, the use of the ground. Huron park is not satisfactory for football.' Hk petition said, and (he high school needs a field to stage the gunics. When * not used by the high school team, other teams could use the field by securing a permit, from City Manager Ziiu-i merman. The field will be placed ir. j shape at the expense of the Kiwa.nh,; chib which will include i new en-’ trance as well as the erection of a 1 ! fence. According to President Moor,Ji the field is well adapted /or foetb.ill and will give the. high school team a i better field than it has had in years.1 A portion of JIarrison-st will be in-! eluded in the field and a ne»v highway I opened.The cemetery has not been used for many years. It was the burial ground for several hundred persons who died dining the. cholera, epidemic which swept the city in 1S43. At that time no coffins were used because of the largo number that died. Many of the bodies were later transferred to Oakland cemetery and the few markers
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Sandusky Star Journal
Sandusky, Ohio, US
Tue, Sep 21, 1920
Page 3
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