The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-27
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LONG LIST SALES
/ Topeka Realty Market Takes
on New Lease of Life.
Much Property Has Changed
Hands Here This Month.
INFLUX OF POPULATION, TOO
Large Number Families Have
Moved to Capital City.
Home Building.
INFLUX OF POPULATION, too

A revival of activity in realty and
building circles has taken place in
Topeka this month, and there has
been substantial influx in population
as shown by the records of the trans
fer companies
Much property has changed hands
in the last few weeks, and the realty
men report that an unusually large
number of inquiries are being made
by prospective purchasers. Building
permits have been issued for many
dwellings. The Clearinghouse Realty
company, the Shawnee Investment
company, the H. B. Wright company
and c. E. Neil are busy new
homes.
Shawnee Investment Company.
Sales by Shawnee Investment COM
pany: Two-story modern dwelling
with six rooms at 1925 buchanan
street to c. E. Oman, consideration
$4,000; attractive six-room bungalow
at 1874 Boswell avenue to DR.. Guy E.
Owens, $500; five-room modern cot
tage at 1904 Madison street to Carl
Hastings, $1,000; five-room bungalow
at 1901 Madison street to Mr.. San
derson, 2,400; siX-room cottage at 440
Scotland avenue from ]. c. Gentry to
Albert Middaugh. $4,000; four-room
dwelling at 1874 Ohio avenue to Theo-
dore Hanson, S1,65O; an acre tract and
new dwelling in Garfield Place to
Charles Knight, 1880 a new dwell
ing ana tract 5UUX1UO 1e6t In LdndruS
Place, east of the Santa Fe shops, to
Walter Hughes, $3.50; store building
near Lyman school and one-half acre
tract from r. F. Garrett to ]. d. linn,
who is remodeh1g the front of the
structure which was formerly the
Lyman school house; property at 1921
Polk street from G. NJ. Blanchard to
Arthur S. Woolverton, $4,000; three
lots on College avenue from Arthur
S. Wolverton to c. M. Blanchard.
$500.
w. j. Rickenbachcr.
w. J. Rickenbacher: Eighty-acre
farm in Usage county owned by Rick
enbacher to Mr.. Huff, consideration
$500; property at 2101 Monroe
street. Lakewood addition, to D. L.
Rousch, $4,000; four-room cottage on
Duke street to Harry Houschild,
$1,000. w. J. Rickenbacher has pur-
chased an eight-room modern, resi-
dence and six lots at 2O01 Clay street
from ]. l.. Altman for $4,000.
Wilson and Nciswanger.
Wilson & Neiswanger: Three acre
tract fruit and house at Twelfth street
and Oakley street, TO c. p Golf of
Ozawkie, consideration. S4,15O; two
and one-half lots and two old dwell
ings at 1022-1O24 Topeka avenue to
c. d. Skinner, consideration $4,000
cash; the w. w. Silver property at
626 Lake street to J. E. Cross, con-
tractor, $3.50; two lots facing east in
Elmhurst between Munson and
Twelfth avenues to Mrs. Phoebe Har-
rison, price $780, two lots in Broad
moor from George T. Beach of Cali
fornia to T. E. Puette, $3.50; six lots at
the corner of Elmwood and Grove
avenues in Belvoir from the Belvoir
Syndicate to Minnie L. Sidwell, price
$3.50; two lots at Fifteenth street
and College avenue from Minnie L.
Sidwell to the Belvoir Syndicate ST.
$50; one and one-half lots on Jewell
avenue near Fourteenth street from
G. L. Slayton to J. NJ. Richards, S375;
c. o. Knowles to c. G. Sinclair AZ
Byron avenue, $500; a five-room mod
ern bungalow at 1915 Huntoon street
from w. A. Neiswanger to W. E. Nc
Dowell; W. E. Mcdowell to W. A.
Neiswanger tract in Belvoir $3.50.
t. w. Reynolds Company.
The T. w. Reynolds Realty COM
pany: SiX-room dwelling at 1643
Central Park avenue, from Charles
Suit to Mrs. Orpha Powell, $3.50; ten
acres on the Central avenue road two
miles from Topeka. from L. E. Hart
man to L. F. Mcdonald, $4,000; a
five-room cottage Plass avenue,
$4,000; five acre tract on the Ro-
chester road near the Rochester
school house, from w. H Kettering
to A. D. Stone, S2,750: a five-room
cottage at 1880 Lincoln street, from
A. d. Stone to w. H. Kettering, $4,000.
III. b. Wright Company.
H. B. Wright Realty company: One
hundred acres four miles north of
Richland from May A. Kellam to G..
A. Bushong; a siX-room modern