The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-02-08
| North Side News
PAVING FIGHT ON
Property Owners Divided Over
Proposed Street improvement.
Tandy VIII Decide With Petit
TONERS Owning Most Property.

On the 4th of January the city COM
missioners passed the paving petition
of the people living on Gordon street
between Kansas avenue and Topeka
avenue, and from Gordon street NORTH
on Topeka avenue to st. John street.
A protest to the Gordon street petition
was filed with the city commission
within the required thirty days. No
protest to the Topeka avenue petition
has been filed, and the time limit eX-
pired last Saturday
Agitation for paving on these streets
mas been carried on for two or three
years. Many persons think that the
paving along these streets, which are
heavily Travelled, would materially
help in building VI the neighborhooI
and boosting property values. In sum-
mer the excessive dust, and in wet
seasons the mul form a disagreeable
feature calculated to deter buyers
from investing in property on these
streets. 1t is a Willingness to buy THAI
| boosts the value of the thing TO De
sold argue the petitioners. 1t will
cost money, say the protesters. 1t will
more than pay for itself, answer the
| petitioners.
The petitions and the protest foc
| the Gordon street paving are now IN
| the hands of Commissioner Tandy. He
will determine on a basis of the COM
parative property footage owned by
| the signers of each, as to what recon-
mendation he will make to the COM
mission The one representing the
most property will win.
| The petitioners assert that a large
| number of the signers of the protest
yet their ground is within zoo feet of
the street to be paved. The streets
| on which their houses face may be al
ready paved, and they face the pros
| pect of having to pay two paving
taxes Naturally they object.
The matter will come before the
commissioners Monday. The pave
ment contemplated would be thirty
feet wide and is of the sort known as
asphalted concrete. 1t has a solid
| concrete base with an asphalt surfac-
| ing. 1t would make a fine permanent
roadway.
| The nominating committee of the
North Topeka Civic club is prepared
! to report, and the club will meet Fri
day evening at ConwelPs chapel to
| hold an election of officers. Henry L.
| Sherburne is chairman of the commit
tee. Fred Voiland is president of the
| club. A number of important matters
will come up for discussion. The
project of a new Union Pacific sta
ton, rumors of which have been cir
culating for some time tho without Of
fetal recognition, will receive the
clubs consideration.
The oyster supper that was to have
been given at Rochester school to-
night have been postponed until Fri
| day night.
| Notes and Personals.
The members of the East Indiano1a
| church have organized a La aides Aid
society. The first meeting of the or
! ganization was held Wednesday at the
home of Mrs. j. w. Robinson. Work
for the years was mapped out. The So
ciery intends to assist the old ano
needy of the community with sewing
and other practical aid within its
reach. Those who can afford it viii
pay for the work done; those who can
not afford it will receive assistance
free
Miss Kate Beuchner entertained hel
card club Wednesday evening at hel
home, 100 West Gordon street.
Miss Bessie Jones will entertain thi:
evening FOR Miss Mabel Jones, wh'
leaves next week to make her home II
Michigan. She has been living witt
the c. E. Jones family.
Ethel Leach and Kate Lowman. O
Granville, were in the city WedneS
dav to see THE Garden of Allah"
The members of the Baptist church
will hold a business meeting at the
church this evening.
c. e. Jones, of Harrington, was Il
North Topeka Wednesday.
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