Milford chronicle., 1909-04-30

> building before school opens next season
The interior is kept clean by Mics Florenc
Lockwood, the teacher.
Sandtown, District No D, has a goo,
building but it needs painting, new step
and floor. The furnitHre is old, no map
of Delaware, the sink in the vestibuI,
needs repairing, and has no flag or pole
Blackboards are satisfactory, also puml
and wood house. The clerk visits the
school occasionally, but the commission
ers not at all. There is no place to keeT
the books, and this must be remedied.
Condition Of the school room as to clean.
illness, fair.
Petersburg No. q, has an ordinary
building which receives but little care
from the commissioners. The underpin-
ming is needing repairs, the furniture is
old ah6 covered with obscene cuttings on
some desks a jack plane would help the
conditions very much, and we suspect
that the clerb or commissioner who would
send his girl to sit down to a desk OF the
character that several Of these are, is OF a
very low moral standard. There is no
pump and if the building were to get on
fire and burn, probably they would realize
the necessity of pump for that reason
alone a flag is there but no pole, and
we believe that the flag was bought by
efforts of a teacher rather than the school
district The school room was clean but
it is needless to state that the closets were
in bad condition better conditions are
not to be expected where the people them-
selves have not pro- er civic pride in their
school Everything there needs paint and
repairs to the ceiling.
Willow Grove, No 81, has a roomy
building, with awful poor furniture and
no maps worth speaking OF. 1t needs
painting and repairs to the plastering
No pump or flag pole. Closets in very
bad condition. The general conditions
were not good; here is a condition that
should be remedied, OF the State money
be held up unit they are made proper.
Willow Grove (colored), No. 1872, is in
fair condition, but this school is in bad
shape financially; the building having
teen sold with church, on whose ground
it was built, by the sheriff. The matter
is in course Of settlement.
DUPONT, No. 25, is an al-round school /
property in good condition, and the only /
that can be made is that coat .
Of paint would add to the appearance and .
preserve the building. General condi-
lions of the interior were very clean.
Bethesda, or the Almshouse School,
10. q, is one OF the few show schools OF
lie county. It is neatly painted inside
md out, furniture nice, good maps and
,lackboards, new pump, good closets,
,ut no flag or pole, as the property is To-
ated in grove. E.erything inside is
leat as a pin. Miss Eveliue Clements is
he teacher, and she deserves credit for {
Iot only teaching, but looking after the
property h
Camden has architecturally speaking 5
he best school building Of any four room /
chool in the county. Its doors open I
utward and has good blackboards, and ,
4rge cellar. TIE closets need cleaning
adlv. General conditions excellent !
his building is heated by stoves, but it
hould be heated by steam for the con-
enience and comfort Of all.
star Hill, No $50, has 81 children
rowded into one room, which would he q
enefted 10y coat of paint and new fur
Iturr, new black ckboards, new pump and q
ew flag pole Everything is kept clean
9 a pin and very sanitary Ii
Rising sun, District No D, needs Z
ainting this year, and has about ali that i
required. Here We found George +
Iessrsmjth's Civil Government being +
.ed as a text book, which is a policy p
lat should be put into force in every h
.hool of the State. We fouud the floors g
rtv and not kept tidy at all. e
Moore's, near Camden, No 1872, is an +,
her Of the excellent schools Of Middle p.
ent County. About everything the n
acher has desired has been done and nj
,erythiug is clean and neat to the 81,
edit of the teacher
Comegy's Free Library, No IA, is loca-
4 in st. Jones Neck, and is taught this "
ason by Miss Ida Frazier This build ~
2 is new ana was built mainly by the W
'orts of the lad.e. Of that district, which &C
counts for its handsome appearance. cI
is two-story, well painted, the inside Il,
lished in hard oil, has an organ and is di
rnished win modern individual desks a
r each child. The clerk should look ~
Ter the closets, otherwise everything 10
is in fine condition II has neither q
z or pole. Come men, get one up. af
st. Jones Neck, colored school, No 149,
probably the poorest building in the
unity; vet the interiors; made attractive
the efforts OF the teacher in trimming Il
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