From the Lawrence Daily World for Sept. 14, 1910: “The call of the wild at this particular season is synonymous with brown canvas coats and long hunting boots. Every day this week has seen its party of gun-equipped hunters leave town for the sloughs. Dash Lake and a small party bagged thirty ducks east of town…. ‘It was the things of long ago’ which were discussed by the Veterans of ’56 at their annual meeting in Odd Fellows hall today. The pioneer days when Mt. Oread was but a rocky sun-baked hill, when not a tree was visible along the thread-like surface of the Kaw; when the eye encountered nothing on the present site of Lawrence but an endless expanse of waving Buffalo grass…. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is making another effort to bring the truth, as it believes it, to the people of Lawrence. Four young men are canvassing the town in the interest of the church they represent. Several years ago a church of Latter Day Saints was organized in Lawrence and for perhaps a year held regular services in a second-story room in the 700 block on Massachusetts street.”