The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-02
STAMFORD
The School Situation - Meeting This Evening - No Immediate Relief in Sight Oil and Water-Prize Win. ners Pleasant Personals.

The School Board will meet this ev- ening and listen to reports. Samuel Beardslee has had charge of the mat ter or finding site for the proposed Aolllster Heights new school house. He has looked at two or three lots on Barnum avenue, and will give his con- clusions as to the best one to be pur- chased. It should be remembered that thus Tar the town has made no ap- propriation for a new school house in the Hollister Heights district. and an other town meeting will have to be called for that purpose. There are know, who think an outlay of from s30,000 to s3S. 900 will be necessary The new school house recently built at shelton, which is considered a model. cost S36,OO And the school house re- gently erected on Stratford avenue for the city of Bridgeport cost not far from S4O,000. This is a plain structure of brick A well known citizen said on Saturday that according to the statement of the health officer made in town meeting, the present school building at Hollister Heights is unsan- 1tary and menace to the commun- ity." If the school is unsanitary and Is reopened, any citizen can sue out en injunction and have it closed. It is thought that the new rooms which are to be added to the center school cannot be occupied before the first of February. These rooms were needed for the children of the center district who have right to go to the center school. They now number TO. and some provision must be made for them. The School Board may rent halls or rooms at the center when school be- gins and until the new addition is completed. The portable school room in the rear cannot be taken to the Huntington district until the addition to the center school house is ready to be occupied, for it is needed for the overflow: So for the present the Huntington road scholars will have to get along as they have been doing in the past. When the School Board first asked for s15,OOO with which to build the addition. there was a great wave of apprehension running around the center of the town regarding the fearful extravaganza of the proposi- tion. Even good folks held up their hands in horror. Where was the money to come from?. As more light was needed, a, joint committee was ap- pointed, and the town went wild in the matter of granting all that was asked for. It authorized new school at Hollister Heights. and at the next meeting of the citizens it will have to provide ways and means. A well known gentleman remarked a day or two ago that if education is going to be efficient it should be rational The outlaying districts should be considered as much as the center of the town. Hollister Heights has a great boom before it, and very soon there will be hundreds of new corners seeking rents and school room.S The new silver fac tory will bring many families into that portion of the town. He con- tended that a High school run by a town too poor to support one, as matter of sentiment or pride is at best a monument of folly.
 MT and Mrs. David L. Rhoades and MT. and Mrs. Charles A. Silliman have returned from their delightful trip up Cape Cod way to Provincetown
 Mrs. E. Mellor, formerly MissADeInn Park, is in town from Phila
 visiting her mother, Mrs. JobJ