From the Lawrence Daily World for July 15, 1910:

“The county commissioners of Douglas and Jefferson counties, in joint session yesterday, awarded the contract for constructing the Lecompton bridge over the Kaw, to the Missouri Valley Bridge Company. The cost of the new structure will total $7,990 of which amount, Douglas county has to pay one half. The old bridge was destroyed by the spring floods and has caused farmers in that section a great deal of inconvenience…. The record for deaths in Lawrence this summer was established today, when four were reported to local undertakers. Three were directly traceable to the excessively warm weather which induced heart trouble. The cause of the death of the infant child of Louis Washington was also largely due to the hot weather…. In Cottonwood Falls, Miss Gussie Houston, Chase county’s Republican candidate for clerk of the district court, is making her campaign on horseback, not by automobile, and is winning votes wherever she goes. If she does not find the man of the house at home she can ride out into the field or across the creeks and find him at his work.”