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Show H8UIUI1FH .free wmm Plans Are Drawn for the Struc-ture; Struc-ture; Cost Is Approximately Approxi-mately $4500. Tho Free Kindergarten and Neighborhood Neigh-borhood IJouse association has had plans drawn for its new building and will start ivorlc immediately. 'I his is to be located at 75:5 West First South street and will cost the association approximately $1500. ..... i . The grounds nnd tho old building were purchased about, two months ago. These are clear of debt and the pro-eceds pro-eceds of the fivo productions ot 'Pinafore," approximately $1500. is on hand wiih which to start the new building. The new building, which will be in front of and joined to the old one. will bo -Klx2S feet in dimension and finished outside and inside with brick. This is to make it as snnitary as possible. pos-sible. It will bo two st ories in height. On tho first floor will be a play room 2(5x123 foot and a dispensary; on the second floor will be an assembly room '2S.13 feet and a bed room, library and living room. These are in addition to numerous closets, lavatories, cloak rooms, bath rooms nnd a store room. The old building hns been remod-oled remod-oled throughout and- is now in use. It is the intention to establish a milk depot in about ten days and it will later be turned into a dny nursery. It also is intended to have the new building' build-ing' completed and ready for use by the time school starts in September. The primal object of tho association is to have a place where working moth ers ma-, leave their children from 0 o'clock in tho morning to G o'clock in the afternoon, at a nominal cost. There also will be clubs for the boys -'ind girls of the neighborhood which will moot in the assembly room of the new building. The boys' club has not yet been organized but a girls' club is already al-ready flourishing. The ladies who have charge of tho affair feel that they are making rapid strides toward giving the little ones of the neighborhood proper care at the least possiblo expense. |