From the Lawrence Daily World for Dec. 28, 1910:

• “‘It is the dark of the moon now,’ said J. C. Evans over the phone to the World this morning, ‘and that means the best chance for rain or snow we have had this winter. It has been entirely too dry for a rain this month but conditions are changing now, and I anticipate either rain or snow within forty-eight hours either way from Friday noon.’ Mr. Evans is the man who prophesied a green Christmas on a day when a few flakes of snow were falling. His prediction was verified, as are most of his weather observations.”
• “Tom and Jeff Holloway, expert trappers, have gone out to Belvoir and will spend the winter gathering pelts. They expect to trap along the Wakarusa and Deer Creek until spring.”
• “That the United States is not prepared ‘for real hostilities with a first class power’ is the testimony of Major General Wood, chief of staff of the army, before the house committee on military affairs made public today. Gen. Wood explained his plan for reorganization for state militia, made a plea for a greater mobile army and declared that the army artillery ammunition at the disposal of the army now would not last through a single engagement.”