Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-15
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KENT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

seven children attend this school. Ii
should be consolidated, or the children
sent to and from Brenford daily on the
trains to either Clayton Dover or Ches-
void.
Nos. IS and 1913. Little Creek Village.
The general condition of the schools here
are improved. The teachers, Geo. Swain
and Miss Caddie Lane, have kept the
building and grounds in very good sani-
tary condition. The building needs paint
ing badly; also new floors will soon be
a necessity. The furniture is good and
satisfactory, and there is an interest in
the schools by the people.
No. SO. Logans. In St. Jones' Neck,
near Bayshore. This school building is
feeling the loss of active interest by the
parents of the district in the school. Two
of the men who took an active part in
the school have moved away, and those
remaining have not become aroused to
the needs of their school. The building
stands well back in a field on the farm
of Timothy Townsend and the whole dis
trict is prosperous and generally wealthy
land owners have to support it. The
grounds are in as fair condition as the
! NaAAAN Will nit anu lAN OuLUuAl0AuRS
are not only old, but in only fair sani-
tary condition. The furniture is gener-
ally old, but some new has been placed
/ in recent years. From the appearance Of
the weather boarding the boys have been
practicing manual training on it, and
most any kind of old boards have been
nailed on it most any kind Of old way.
| The same source for repairs for the
4 ar.t1a.,f1v.
! tied with that work, for the bricks were
piled in loosely without even mud to
hold them. This district will have to
take up a general course of repairs, and
at their next school election vote suffi-
cient funds to provide better conditions
for their children to attend school in the
future. The State has the right to de-
mand that better conditions be provided
at Logans, and this will probably be the
last chance the people will have to act
without being driven to do the work and
comply with the demands of the State
for better school comfort for their chill
dren.
No. 81. HolIandsville. Located west
from FELTON,. Miss Alice Hates is the |
teacher, and the sanitary conditions are
fair to good. The grounds are clean and /
other conditions very fair but the school /
needs two recitation benches and new |
desks to the number of ten. A new door |
step, and a jacket or shield around the !
stove to save the children from roasting, /
who sit next the stove during the winter
season. The building needs painting
generally. The school taXables will have I
to consider this at their annual meeting
in June, and provide for doing the work
before the beginning Of the next school
term.
NJ. SO. White Hall, near Smyrna.
The sanitary conditions of the school and
tr5unds have been well looked after by
Mss Florence Slaughter, the teacher.
The building is fair to good and the
grounds fine. The water closets are in
fair condition and the furniture very
good. Several improvements are needed,
and the school meeting in June will have
to provide for making them by voting
the money. Some general repairs must
be made and the building needs paint
ing. The large old platform must be
removed and that will give more room
for the desks to be better placed, and an
iron Jacket or shield should be placed
around the stove to protect the children
from direct heat, which at times almost
cooks their little faces.
No. 80. Raughley's School, near Burrs-
Vile. Located west from Harrington
under the charge Of Mary L. Thomas, as
teacher The building is only tar TO
start with, and the grounds are no bet
ter. The water closets are rotten, and
the furniture is no good. The under
pinning of the school buildingi is broken,
and the whole plant needs general re-
pairs and painting. One new closet
should be built at once, a woodhouse
will be the next structure to build ana
the furniture should be replaced with
new This inspection should be maze
known to the school voters of that ms
trict at their next meeting and they VIII (
then have opportunity to provide Tor get
ting Droper school conditions and conf
forts for their children at their meeting
in Iune.. Unless action is taken, the
County School Commission will De conf
PEELED to condemn the school and cause
the people to make these changes by pro-
cess of law.
No. 80, Wiley's School, near Cheswold. /
Miss Fannie Morris has kept this school
in a very good condition aud the SAM
tarv situation is excellent. The building
is GOOD, and the grounds very good, the
furniture old but serviceable. Since the
last inspection a large porch has been
added to the building and coat OF paint
inside and out given to it. The only
suggestion is that jacket or shield
should be placed around the stove to make
If more comfortable for the children who
have to sit next to it during the winter.
A suggestion is equal to an order to the
Wiley School people, for they keep the
school in fine condition generally
Nos. "a, 126, 1877. Town of Harrins-
ton. Ten teachers are employed IN these
new and modern schools. Everything
with one exception is a model for any :
town to pattern after in the Harrington !
schools. This one exception IS the ar
of the toilet rooms, aud II is !
simply impossible for this to remain as
it is. When the building was erected
the mistake of placing the toilets IN me
basement was made This was a mistake,
because the town is without sewers, ana ,
surface drainage must be depended upon. /
THE local Board of education closed the /
rooms and erected wooden shacks near
the rear wallis of the beautiful building I
and these the County School Commission !
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