Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1908-05-01

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Has pump, fair furniture of home make,
and seems to lie doing good work.
Oak Grove, No. 81, located in Milford
Neck, has fair to good buildings, two good
closets, good pump, blackboards of slate
but a little too high, furniture excellent,
no flag pole, but the flag was handsomely
drapped on the wall. A very tidy interior
and pleasant appearing school.
Benefits Gate, No. As. Building is
fair to good, has pump, coal house, two
closets and furniture all in fair condition.
Flag pole but flag was laying on a shelf
covered with dust. Slate blackboards of
fair height. A flower yard that was once
cared for, but now neglected and over
grown. Interior not over clean, walls bare
of decoration. Only seven months school.
Sour Apple Tree, or Oak Grove, No. SS.
Building good. fine pump, closets in or
Ger, furniture excellent, blackboards of
slate and right height, muslin curtains to
windows, ventilation from top of win
dows, front porch. A good school we'll
conducted. Located in edge of woods in
Milford Neck, has no flag pole and no flag
in evidence.
Pine Grove, No. a. In Milford Neck,
building old, good closets, flag pole, good
flag, furniture old but in fair condition.
Slate backboards but entirely too high.
A new floor in the building is needed.
Milford Colored Schools, No. 1853, has
new four room building which needs at
tention, as the plaster needs repair and
outside needs paint. Running water in
the hallway, fine closets but very dirty,
large fuel building. Blackboards entirely
too high.
Milford Public Schools. The finest
buildings in the county; their cost all
tole has been about SS7, 200. Has fifteen
teachers, and the interior is a model. All
the latest appliances for ventilation, heat
ing by steam, sanitary closets and ample
space. There is no Fairgrounds attached
to these schools, and the grass plots are
not trampled over or the property defaced
in any manner. Fine flag and pole.
Church Hill, No. 4O!, located two miles
west from Milford, has a good building,
furniture excellent, closets fair, black
boards ordinary and too high for small
children, good pump, and the interior is
very neatly kept. Have eight months
school.
Houston, Nos. l25 1873 An out-of-date
building, very badly ventilated f; tempera-
ture at time of visit, in one room over IS
degrees. Poor furniture, blackboards good
and right height, water closets in very
common condition; have a flag in fine
condition but no flag pole. Floors in bad
condition. New building needed in the
central part of the town present structure
away off to north side of place. The peo-
pie should be ashamed to compel their
children to be subjected to such condi-
tons to secure an education.
Williamsville, No. Al, located four miles
west from Milford, has building which
has been cut in half and a piece set into
the middle, and yet the building is not
large enough for the children that attend.
The floor is bad, walls not clean or attrac-
tive the wood house has tumbled down
and the water closets are but little better
than nothing. Has the pump in the
house the furniture is only in fair condi-
ton, wainscoating defaced with obscene
knife marks which have apparently been
there for years. Good blackboards at
right height. Room conditions fair only.
WilliamsviIle Colored School is over
church, in the building built by the Freed
mans Bureau. 1t is in fair condition,
but has little furniture that is of any &C.
count. No pumps no flag, fair closets.
Harrington Colored Public School is
new building built by the State five years
ago. In fair to good condition, has belfry
and pump, good closets, good furniture
but the blackboards are four feet from the
floor. so small child must stand on box
to reach them.
Masten's, No. So, located just north of
Harrington, has good building with a
belfry and good outbuildings. Furniture
fair to good, pump in the house but gives
no water. Has no map Of Delaware, no
flag, no pole. Needs more attention from
the people.
Harrington Public Schools. The build
ing is greatly overcrowded and its condi-
ton is rejecting but little credit on the
town of Harrington. Has eight teachers
and probably the largest attendance OF
children in proportion to population than
any school in the county.
Reeves Crossing, located south OF Eel
ton, a colored school with fair building.
Closet fair to good, as it should be, by
reason of the fact that it stands under a
window and against the building. Furni-