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The Sewickley Valley's Home-News Weekly
VoLXXVn.. No. 1.
SEWICKLEY, PA., FRIDAY. OCTOBER 4, 1929
Price 5 Cents.
.Autumn JFoliage beautiful in Sewickley (Temeter?
Upper left: The entrance to the Sewiekley Cemetery frOm Hopkins Street, showing the wider curve and the hillside
cut "baek to make a "wide, smooth roadway. Upper right: Another curve on the road, which is now being widened
by cutting several feei off the hillside.  Center: A hillside terrace in the older seetion, which will be used for burial.
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* .The Sewickley Cemetery, always serene, has taken on a new beauty, now,
for the leaves on the hundreds of trees
are changing color, At the soldior's
monument, the four cannons, ivy covered, aro scarlet. Trees all up and
down the hillsido aro covered with yellow, reel brown or green leaves. Far
Off, the distant hills aro veiled by the
autumn hazo and just below, Sewickley nestles at the foot of tho hill, its
marty trees a riot of color.
Tlie grass in the cemetery is still
green and many flowers on the graves
bloom luxuriantly.    Crimson ivy, with
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the small brown berries, envelopes the
trunks of evergreens in a fiery spiral
and droops from the branches, making
a beautiful contrast with the darker
green of the evergreen needles.
Hero,and thero a faded banner hangs
limp over the grave of a veteran, contributing to tho soft, sad feeling of
fall. Now -and then, a sharp blast of-
chilly air sweeps up out of the Valley
and the frost pnintod leaves flutter
noiselessly to tho ground, symbols of
Nature's six month sleepX*
Many improvement- have been gradu
ally made in the cemtery in the past
year. Tho entranco from Hopkins
Streot has boon widened to a two car
width, by tho expedient of cutting into
tho hillside on the upper sido of tho
road and dumping the dirt along tho
lower side of tho road. Tho turn on to
Upper Broad Street is no longer so
dangorous, as a car has sufficient room
to mako the loop.
Beyond tho steps, workmon have beon
working for soveral weeks cutting into
tho hillsido and at present arc within
a hundrod yards of the horseshoe curve,
which  Was  widened  last   year.    The
whole job of cutting away tho hillside,
filling in the lower side of tho road and
laying a new brick gutter on the upper
side, is expected to be finished this fall.
In order to make room for more burial plots in the old Section of the eeinc-
tory, Charles "Winters, superintendent,
has had a terrace leveled out of tho
hillsido just behind the soldier's monument. Pive acres of ground, adjacent
to the new section of the cemetery, were
purchased recently from Mrs, William
Thaw and tho land will be cleared and
parked until so'me future time When it
Will bo needed.