Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1914-05-08
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KENT COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS

Miss Eva B. Wingate. Everything inside
and out was clean and well cared for
Good building, good outbuldings, clean
grounds, furniture old but serviceable
and a fine large concrete set of steps al
the door.
No. 6, Servison's, near Smyrna Building
is good and the grounds very good. One
toilet needs repair. Furniture is old and
badly carved it should be planed off and
made better thereby. Il is very clean
and sanitary The building needs paint
ing inside and out, a new floor and sew
eral panes of glass replaced A Jacket.
or shield should be placed around the
stove to protect the children from the
direct heat radiation.
No. 7, Raymond's, near SMYRNA. This
! building needs several things done to i'm
prove it which are not costly. The plat
form at one end should be taken out at
once, and a jacket or shield be placed
about the stove to protect the children
from the direct radiation of heat from it
The closets need repairs The building
| is in very good shape and the grounds
excellent, while the furniture is all right
/ Very clean and sanitary conditions pre-
vail. Marguerite w. Jones is the teacher
No. 8, Downs Chapel, near Kenton.
Condition of grounds is only fair, the
building is old but with repairs would be
very serviceable; the furniture is old e.,
well carved and should be replaced with
new. A new recitation bench is a neCes-
sity, and a new door to the building is
needed A new floor is badly needed
and jacket about the stove will save an
epidemic of diphtheria or la grippe. New
coal house is needed as we'll as new water
closets. The sanitary conditions are fair,
but as good as the teacher could possibly
get under conditions.
No. 9, Kenton. A two story brick
school building with two teachers, Misses
Edith Gooden and Helen Heathers, who
have done much towards improving gen
eral conditions about the property by su-
pervision. The grounds were in fair TO
good condition, the outbuildings were
excellet and the furniture satisfactory.
There should be new floors put in the
Railways, a new doorstep, a book case
and a system of heating and ventilation.
The large stoves make it very uncOmfort-
able for children sitting near them, and
the ventilation can only be had by the
windows. Here is where a modern heat
ing and ventilation system can be IN
allied to good advantage to the health
of the children. The town is wealthy and
able to make the improvement. Other
wise the sanitary conditions were excel
lent. and even she floors were oiled to
keen down the INST a fine idea
No. 10, Moores, near Cheswold. Fair
to good building, with good grounds sur
rounding it. Some Improvements had
been made since the last inspection, but
there must be repairs made to the under
pinning.a few new desks should be added,
the walls repapered and sheet-iron
Jacket or Shield be placed about the stove
to protect the children from the direct
radiation of heat The outbuildings were
very good, and the same may be said of
the furniture. Sanitary and very clean
building. Miss Elizabeth Donovan was
the teacher.
Nos. IL and 81, Town of Leipsic. a
two-storv frame building which has slowly
but steadily shown improvement for the
past ten years. It was once the poorest /
managed school in Kent county, but uu
der a determination of the people to have
better conditions it has gradually come
AHTll.
able. and the grounds were in better con- +
dition than ever before. The closets .
were a matter for cOngTatulatiOn as to
The furniture is old but /
A new floor has been added .
since tile last inspection in the second .
story room. The first floor needs re-
placing with a new one, and the build .
ing needs painting inside and out TO I
freshen it upaud makeit more attractive.
Lillian NJ. Aker and Lulu Station are
helping to get better results as teachers (
Of the school. The sanitary conditions .
owing to them is very good.
No. IL, Cowgills, the only Octagon .
School Building in Kent County, Is near
Dover. 1t has fine school grounds and
everything is very clean. The school IS
small and the property is very old, hay
ng been established about 1857. out
buildings very clean, but the furniture is
quite old but servlceable
No. 10, Oak Grove, near the State
House at edge of Dover, Is protegee of
Ben Moore, one of the best school clerks
II the county, because he visits the school
md supplies its needs promptly. A good
,uildiug and fine grounds, new toilets,
'ETN 9OOQ furniture wei ff+44-NNNA -a-''''- ,
nd out, and everything sanitary. All
his school needs is heating and ven
Hating method installed, to make 1t one
# the model schools for rural districts.
The ceiling is high and the installation
f a modern ventilating and heating plant
would be a blessing to the children as
veil as pleasure to the parents. No. IS
S not an unlucky number in Kent County
chools; for, see Oak Grove district.
No. IA. Comegys, in St. Jones Neck
ear Dover. Miss Evelyn Reed is in
barge here, and the clerk Of the district
AS helped to raise the conditions about
his school property. The building IS
lmost a new two story, and the grounds
bout it are in better condition than at =
nv inspection previously made. It has 9
ingle desks in the building, and the
FINALS for the boys have iron troughs'
hitch are kept in fine condition Since :
ne last inspection the coal ashes have I,
cen spread around the building to hll :
D the low pathways, which makes less
iud to track into the school and drains
le water from the grounds A recita-
on bench is needed and a jacket or I
held should be placed about the stove =
n fine comfort of the children who sit !,
:. w., orood conditions here Il