The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-03

completed he entered the contracting
business, and the first house he built
is still standing in perfect condition on
East Tenth street between Quincy and
Kansas avenue.
Mr.. Chubb was married in 1868 to
Miss Sarah Mitchell of Winterset, Ia.
whose death occurred two years later.
He married his present wife, Miss
Katherine Alkire, in 1878, she being a
resident of Shawnee county.
Mr.. Chubb was a member of the
city council under the J. B. McAfee
administration This was in 1870 and
the first year after the war that the
negro population was allowed the
brake Is the only other member of this
council that is now living. 1t was
during this administration that the
first team of horses were purchased
was instrumental in securing them.
About this time Mr.. Chubb engaged
in farming, and for seven years oper-
ated the Alkire homestead in the Deer
creek neighborhood, moving from
there to farm in Jackson county,
near Hoyt, and which he operated for
this farm OF $50 acres he paid only
$4,000 for it, and after working it
twenty years, making large profits
every. year, he finally sold it for
Those early days were full of
thrilling experiences. One in par
ticular which Mr.. Chubb tells about
with chuckle. happened while
sleeping in a sod house. Mr.. Chubb
says 81 had just gotten to bed and
had dozed off into sleep when
heard sound that would remind
one of escaping steam from a locomo-
tive. I awakened with start to find
that my supposed dream was
f1edged ugly RATHER. killed the
snake and to this day carry the
rattles as a momento of the night
slept with a rattlesnake in sod
house, In telling of this occurrence
Mr.. Chubb always displays the rattles
which he carried in a little fiat tin
box, and chuckles over the re-
After disposing of his farm near
Hoyt, Mr.. Chubb again moved to To-
peka. After looking around for
farm location. finally decided on his
present home in Highland Park, and
since locating there he has added to |
his holdings until he now owns six
hundred of the finest lots in that
beautiful addition.
The present home of Mr.. Chubb is
a monument to what hard work and |
perseverance will do. 1t is large
and roomy, surrounded with beauti-
full lawns, fine shade trees, and has
every modern convenience.
For the past four or five years Mr.. |
Chubb has put the greater part OF
his time in the care of his H1ghland
Park property, and today 1t would pc
hard to find a more beautiful spot in
the whole state than his holdings. He
has recently put in cement SIDEWALKS
graded the streets installed com
plete water system, and now that ne
feels his work completed, he will sell
these six hundred beautiful lots sat
urday afternoon at 1 p. m, at puplc
auction on the plan Of $40 down ana
SIS per month. The auction VIII take
The Law of the land which con-
sists of these lots seems 10 ne the
very backbone of Highland Park.
The ground all slopes genIy aMat
from the center of the principal street
giving a fine drainage to the ground
MT. Chubb says that he mas
Travelled in many parts OF the Onlteo
States and that he has never seen
finer location for home anywhere,
He has great ideals for this little
Highiand Park city and says that
some time in the future, tne
property owners will! cooperate with
him, that he intends to have an
ornsmentaI fountain erected in the
center of the intersection or Mich
ipan and Goldfinch avenues This
with the fine waterWorks system,
new sidewalks. well kept lawns ana
shaded streets. will MAKE truely
beautiful place to i've
Mr.. Chubb expects large crowd at
the auction tomorrow and invites
everybody, even if one does not care
to hid, to come out and see what he
has done to make Highland Park
better place.
those who are personally. ac-
ouainted with jeremiah Chubb. mar
vel at his general health and activity
as he can work from ten to twelve
hours in the field every day, and be
as refreshed in the evening as man
Of less than one-third his age. When
asked if he had any special pro-
gramme he followed regarding the
preservation of his health, MI
Chubb said PLENTY of hard work,
plenty to eat, plenty of sleep, plenty
of fresh air, and gallons of pure
sr,iner rrafer daily