From the Lawrence Daily World for August 6, 1910:

“There is great excitement in Tonganoxie right now, and anybody who shows an undue fondness for fried chicken is looked upon with suspicion around that peaceful town. For Tonganoxie is infested with chicken thieves…. So unusual is it for one to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, that the citizens of Willow Springs township have arranged for an Old Settlers meeting to be held on September 3rd, to observe the birthday of Father Gilland. The old gentleman has been a resident of the county for many years and the span of life covers the most interesting hundred years in the development of the arts and industries of the world…. There is a law in Kansas compelling all factories to pay their hands in cash. The action was taken on account of the complaints of the W.C.T.U. that the men had to go to saloons to have their checks cashed, and that many of them spent their salary in these places. The few factories in Lawrence still continue to pay their employees by checks, and since there are no saloons in this city, the enforcement of the law by the state should be entirely unnecessary.”