From the Lawrence Daily World for July 31, 1910: “The arrest of a local shop owner recently on a charge of violating the child labor law, has resulted in a deluge of inquiries flooding the juvenile court by employers who feared they might come within its provisions. Early this morning Judge Mean’s telephone bell began to jangle and in nearly every instance the inquiry covered some phase of the child labor law…. The farmers living near Perry have been blessed with a big yield of wheat. The threshers are at work and the fields are turning out well. Altogether forty-two cars of new wheat have already been shipped out from Perry…. Two young girls, aged 16 and 15, begged to go to the circus, says the Junction City Union, and their indulgent father purchased tickets for them. Later, they traded the tickets for merry-go-round tickets, and were riding with several undesirables of the opposite sex, when their father appeared on the scene. He was pretty mad. It is said that the gentlemen had been ordered from the house previously, and the girls had been forbidden to associate with them. Therefore, the father sent the girls home and followed along closely only stopping to cut several switches.”