From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 19, 1910: “Officials of the Lawrence Vitrified Brick Co. are to meet to discuss increasing the capacity of the plant here. Much of the delay in city paving contracts is secured by the inability of the plant to supply brick as fast as they are used. At the present, the company is 2 million bricks behind in its orders. … Seventy-five cents a bushel was bid for corn at the sale held on the Squires farm near Clinton. Farmers not only paid nearly 10 cents a bushel above the Kansas City price but they hauled the corn home themselves and the owner received 75 cents net without having to haul his produce to market. This is the highest cash price ever paid for corn in Douglas County and perhaps in the state.”