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Show i THE HILLS OF MILFORD HEIGHTS Milford is no stand-still town. But there is one thing peculiar about Milford which will take years to remedy and bring the town to a city appearance. Reference is made to the typography of the land upon which the town is laid out. Until an attempt is made to expend a little civic effort on the area of Milford that lies between Main street and Lewis street, (the street two blocks west and paralleling Main street), development and beautifying will necessarily be confined to Main street and the hill section. The 'palisades' along the town, with their present appearance, ap-pearance, offer a field for effort and a problem which progressive pro-gressive minds of the town would do well to study. Gradually with the succeeding years something may be worked out bit by bit which will in time give the hillside a better appearance appear-ance than its present drabness. The slopes need sidewalks. If the weather be damp, with attendant snow or mud, the cliff-dwellers must take a round-about course in their morning walk to work, or else slide down through the slush. Filling in some of the pits, which look like the ruins of cellars, and sodding up the whole hillside, will do much to relieve Main street of its summer dust clouds and dirty condition. Some drainage system may be evolved which would prevent Main street, (whose gutters do not well drain off water), from being the final depository of the mud and water washed down with the melting of the snow. This mud dries and keeps the business section choked with dust. Finals, it is not entirely too visionary to believe that in times these hillsides will be graded down to where our east and west streets can be extended straight up the hill, thus affording traffic ways of which the town is sorely in need. With our side streets only block-long thoroughfares, it is necessary to journey by car to ends of Main street in order to arrive at one's destination on the hill. Beauty spots in towns are all the more attractive be- cause they have been converted from places which were veritable eye-sores. Public-minded individuals and organizations organi-zations have a golden opportunity to make Milford a city of homes in actual appearance. While we're on the subject, it might be well to pat ourselves on the back a little for what the past twelve months have been accomplished. If the article above sounds eaustic, it is only because there is a comparison established with what has been done on our Main street. The boys on the town board are deserving of a lot more praise than that grudgingly handed out to them. We do not see how they could possibly have accomplished more in a year's time. Our first impression of Milford was obtained fairly recently; re-cently; hence, the improvements made are all the more vivid in our mind. The biggest move for the town's betterment waa, of course the paving and lights. There are numerous other things, smaller in comparison, which the town board is doing do-ing constantly, all of which have combined to make a startling start-ling transformation in the appearance of the business section. sec-tion. Singly, these may seem insignificant to our readers, but together, they indicate a progressive spirit. There are the waste-paper boxes. These are neatly etenciled with the slogan, "Help Keep Our Town Clean." Stop signs have been placed on the approaches to the pavement. pave-ment. Directions for parking are placed on these signs and on the pavement curbing. Our electroliers are equipped for uniform decorating with the national colors on holiday occasions. The Lions have placed signs bearing the welcome of their club at the entrance to town. The Union Pacific has doubled its section of grassy parks. Neat cottages have been erected on vacant comers. Mention of all these things may serve to call attention to the fact that Milford is not a temporary campground for shopmen, merchants or boomers. Such dissension as flares up occasionally among its citizens, with sometimes disparaging disparag-ing remarks about our public officials, are merely growing pains, indicative of Milford's continual desire for further betterment. |
