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Show MILFORD FACESERA OF MUCH ACTIVITY IN BUILDING OFHOMES AND APARTMENTS TEN-UNIT APARTMENTS " AND SIX BUNGALOWS TO BE BUILT OTHER WORK' UNDERWAY That Milford is entering upon a period of building is indicated by the work that H. C. Bradfield, local contractor, con-tractor, has lined up. He expects to start work in about thirty days on some new apartments. These apartments apart-ments consist of a ten-unit court on Mrs. Catherine Bradfield's place, the site of the old livery stable on Stoddard Stod-dard Avenue. Also, six new bungalows bunga-lows are going up on north Main street, at the old Gale corner. Mr. Bradfield has sent to the coast for more men to help him; he brought three or four of his men here when he came. Mr. Bradfield is a Milford man originally, or-iginally, but has been engaged in construction con-struction work in Los Angeles for the last ten years. While on the copst, he accomplished the feat of building one hundred bungalows in Long Beach in one year's time. Sixty of these were on one tract. The apartments which he is going to build here he states will be modern and up-to-date in very particular. Each apartment wiy have bath, electric elec-tric ranges, and furnace heat. They will be uniform in that they will each consist of living room, dining room, bath, and breakfast nook. Lots of other construction and remodeling re-modeling about Milford at present are all signs of the times, and all point to the fact that Milford is growing. Herman Bradfield is remodeling. The Joseph F. Murdock new home has been completed and is now open for inspection. inspec-tion. Simeon Kesle-r is planning on doing some building. Ed Cope is in the latter stage of building a new house for D. M. Griffiths. The Sloan apnrl.mrnts were increas ed this spring hy additions, and the George Jefferson home has been in the process of being remodeled. This construction activity denotes a healthy condition of the town by indicating in-dicating the need for expansion and preparing for it. |