The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-29
Permits for Nearly Fifty DWELL
ings Issued in April.
People From Other Cities Are
Moving to Topeka.
THEY COME IN DROVES
Forty Families Move Here in
Two Weeks.
State Realty Men Are Working
for Kansas Exhibit.
THEY COME IN DROVES

Building permits have been issued
this month for the erection of forty
nve dwellings at a total cost of a little
more than eighty thousand dollars,
and there is every indication that there
VIII be no abatement in the activity in
this particular in the next few months.
In fact the permits for new houses
issued in May will probably exceed
those Issued this month both as to
number ana valuation.
For the most part the houses which
are springing UP this season are mex
pensive, but of a substantial nature
and such as indicate a good healthy
growth of the city. As there are still
a few hours remaining before the close
or the permit book at the Office of the
IRE chief for the month of April it
is not at all unlikely that the permits
for the month will reach the $4,000
mark. One of the largest items for
the month was that which called for
the building of a horse barn on the
1afr grounds costing $4,000.
For Kansas Exhibit.
The members of the Kansas Assoc
citation of Real Estate agents are writ
ing in to w j. Rickenbacher, the sec
rotary treasurer of the organization,
approving of the move in the direction
of having a Kansas agricultural ex-
hibtt at the big Land show in Chicago,
November IS.
The plan is to get the members of
the association in fifty counties to give
$50 each towards making such dis
play possible. This would bring in
$4,000. The officials of the state assoc
citation say that 10000 advertising
pamphlets should be printed by the
association, and Secretary F. D. Co
burn, by the way, will furnish facts
concerning them.
The next meeting of the state asso-
citation will be held in Wichita, July
IL, and at that time the question of
whether or not the association will
have such a display as has been men
toned will be decided.
There has not been as much bust
ness transacted in the last week by the
realty men as in the two weeks pre-
vious. Many of the men are ''just
closing up a big deal" However if
the weather is fine next week a large
number of sales should be reported.
Strange. but the weather has much to
do with whether or not large amount
of business is transacted. Even a
cloudy day will make a difference.
Coming to Topeka.
Many people are moving to Topeka.
IN the last two weeks the local trans
fer men have handled the household
goods of about forty families which
have moved into the city, while scores
of persons with no possessions other
than a suit case or trunks have prob
period of time. But just take the
forty families. Counting five persons
to the family If the rate of incoming
were kept up the entire year it would
mean an increase in the population of
5000 souls. OF course, to be sure,
there are those who are moving away,
but the number is not so large, and
there seems to be no question about
the fact that Topeka is growing.
Sales of the Week.
Rodgers, Davis & Company report
these sales: One and one-half lots at
1921 Central Park avenue, from w. A.
L. Thompson to w. S. Reeder; three
lots at 1926 Clay street from E. H.
Crosby to r. G. Rouse: a block of 7h
acres of land south of the Country
club on Topeka, from to NJ S. Blitz,
for $500.
]. w. Ferguson has sold: A 4O-acre
farm near Meriden from H. c. New
comb to F. ]. Wilson; a five room cot
tage and four lots in Highland Park,
from D. A. Carter to Mrs Heinsley of