Milford chronicle., 1926-03-26
MILFORD, FRIDAY. MARCH 26, '26

MILFORD, FRlDA1, MANU- ~, ~
AN UNUSUAL ACTIVE condition
exists in the building operations IN
and about Milford at the present
time. With a dozen new dwellings
in various conditions of building,
from the closed in stage to the ex-
cavating for foundations, the open
ing of spring building season Tor
the current year finds most of the
carpenters and builders actively at
work. In former years building op-
erations in Milford seldom started
before the latter part of April. The
remodelling of the General Torbert
property on North Walnut street
into four apartments, notes the
passing of one of the Oldest and
handsomest private residences IN
Milford. 1t for hundred years was
a show place because of its hand
some gardens of flowers and flow
ering magnolias. The yard and gar
dens will be largely retained, or as
much as the additions will permit.
Landscape gardener and Towering
arrangements have been provided
for by the new ownership, and the
olden-time beauty of the yard is to
he retained. Other building opera
tions are mostly modern homes IN
all parts of the town. The build
ers state that the outlook for new
construction, outside of remodellng
and general repairs, will make the
current building season of unusual
activity.
DeS
IF THE PEOPLE will visit the
public schools OF Milford and see
the cramped conditions OF the three
rented rooms at the Masonic Build
ing. used for about one hundred OF
the smaller children, they will at
once demand that provisions De
made for building a proper kind OF
school building. 1t is a shame that
such conditions exist. Yet that
condition is far better than those
at the main school at Second ana
North streets, where there is aDso-
lutely no yard or ground on which !
the children can get exercise thru
play or even walk about, except by.
permitting only two rooms to leave
the school building at one time
The old Methodist Church Gene
terry has been their only play |
ground. and those who own the lots |
there object to having their graves
trodden down by children at play
The health conditions have reached |
the point where a new building
with sufficient land about 1t must
be provided in a very short time'
and the people will be called upon
to vote for building a primary ana
grammar school of eighteen or
more rooms with a heating plant,
storage rooms and offices for the
carving on of the school. No at
tempt will be made to build high
school; the old building can be re-
modelled for high school work at
an expenditure of a few thousand
dollars, and when the new building
is occupied, the three borrowed
school buildings now in use there
will be removed, the old buildings
on the grounds be cleared away,
and a small yard will be available
to use for exercise purposes where
they now stand.
The new building will take care
of all our own children, while the
remodeled old building will afford
ample accommodation for 250 high
school pupils, which the State pro-
vides for.
Whatever the building program
which is proposed for Delaware
may be, Milford will be in posi-
ton to get her full rights and be
taken care of financially.
Every man or woman who has
children to educate, must take an
active interest in the proposition to
build the new school. There is
nothing to interfere or make the
lob a hardship at this time.
The Community Building Will
help to make available for building
purposes, money that would have
had to go towards the assembly
and recreation provisions; afford
ing revenue for the community
building at the same time.
Building of the Methodist Church
has been deferred for a time, so
there is nothing to obstruct or hold
back the building of the new
school building at this time.