From the Lawrence Daily World for Nov. 1, 1910:

“What has become of the old-fashioned town boy, who remained out all night Hallowe’en? What has become of the daring gang of kiddies who painted the neighbor’s cow a brilliant green, carefully balanced a dray on the top of the blacksmith shop, and energetically carted all the stray and dilapidated baby buggies into the front yard of the latest newly-weds? Verily the good old times have vanished. A thorough canvass of Lawrence this morning disclosed no greater iniquities than an inverted salt barrel crowning an abandoned lamp post, and a section of overturned wooden sidewalks.”

“The first man to pay his taxes for the year was Harry Miller. By managing to slip his certified check under the little wicket in County Treasurer Eddy’s office this morning in advance of some dozen others, he maintained his record of several years’ standing of being entitled to tax receipt No. 1.”

“A few nights ago there gathered in a hotel in Independence, Kansas, twenty-five traveling men. One was from Missouri and all of the others were from Kansas. The question of prohibition came up for discussion and a poll showed every Kansan in favor of prohibition and the Missourian opposed to it.”