The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-10-08
Permits Issued in Nine Months
Set New Pace.
Figures Are Significant as Other
Cities Show Decrease.
BUILDINGMANY HOMES
Scores of Dwellings Will BE
Started This Fall.
Realty Market Fairly Active
Numerous Transactions Made.
WEDNESDAY.

There is no let up in the building
| activity in the city This week permits
were issued for the erection of seven
new dwellings,, and there are many
others which will be built in the near
future.
All records were broken in the value
of permits issued at the office of the
fire chief the first nine months in any
year. Forty-eight hundred dollars IN
permits were issued the last minute in
the month of October subsequent to the
summing up of the permits for the
month in this column last week. This
made a grand total for the first nine
months of the year of 81, 1926, sos So
which is $4,5S1.50 in excess of the fig
ure last year at the same time.
This is a remarkable showing consid-
ering tie tightness Of money through
out the country and the fact that the
majority of other cities of any size
have recorded a falling off in the value
of permits issued.
Permits this week aggregated $4,000.
The average cost of the dwellings for
which, the permits call is not as great
as has been the case in several weeks,
but there was a sufficient number of
permits to allow for the erection of a
house each day of the week. The total
figure for the year now stands at
$1,s25, 5o6.5o.
Realty men report that the market is
fairly active the demand being espe-
cially good for building sites in the
residential portions Of the city. For
the most part the weather has been
favorable for the hurrying to com
pIetion of builders contracts.
whats the matter with the Topeka
Real Estate Dealers association" is
a question that is being asked by the
land men. A few months ago meetings
cussed for the betterment of business
conditions in the city, but little has
been done towards carrying out those
plans.
The second week in January the
state association of real estate agents,
will meet in Topeka, and it is up to
the realty men of Topeka to adequately
entertain the delegates or the future
conventions will go to other cities, as
there seems to be sharp competition
for the convention of land sellers.
They need the injection of a little
ginger" said one of the members of
the local association in speaking of
the conditio nof affairs. 1.-THE To-
peka Real Estate Dealers association
needs to get busy"
A number of important improve
ments have been made at the 1<1gh-
land Park school house. A concrete
floor in the basement has been put
in and the addition of a large manual
training room in that part of the
building has been made The win
dows of the building have been en-
larged.
An addition to the teaching force of
the school has been made and now
there are five instructors on the pay
roll. aside from a music teacher.
course under the general supervision
of City superintendent L. D. Whit
temore, and a number of students
have enrolled in the course who hail
from outside of the district.
Following are recent sales in the
Lakewood addition: o. H. Gibbons,
two lots, $500; Gertrude Harritt, two
lots, for the consideration of $3.50;
Bertha Reed, four lots. $3.50; I. NJ.
Waldron, two lots, $3.50.
The Clearinghouse Realty company
will build a seven-room dwelling at
1928 Fillmore street, which will cost
$4,000, and a six-room dwelling at
$50 Ashton avenue at cost of $2,750.
This firm is completing a six-room
house at 1881 West street for Mrs.
Maude Graham, another dwelling at
1910 West Sixth street costing $500,
and a third house at 1917 Clay street
that is costing s2,75O.
The Clearinghouse company has sold
to c. L. johnson six-room bunga-
low at 1895 West street for $4,000,
and has purchased four lots in the
1900 block, Fillmore street, on which
the firm will erect two dwellings this
fall.
Following are the building permits
issued this week.
Wilson & Neiswanger. two story
w L. Osborn. one story dwelling, 200
East Euclid avenue ............... 1,s5o
DR.. A. B. jeffrey, addition to dwell
ing. 81 Lane street. 400
E. NJ. Jolley, addition to dwelling
927 King street. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 500
ness building. 42s Kansas ave-. 1850
quincy street -. =. 200
Harry Applegate. one story dwell