From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 25, 1911:

• “As summer approaches Woodland Park is putting on her dress of beauty and brightness. The carpet of grass, the spring foliage, the blue sky and the warm sun combine to make the park a place of unusual attraction. The park management has recently purchased a number of new swings and a whole lot of apparatus for the children’s play ground and workmen are busy putting them in place. The park is an ideal playground for the children, during the warm afternoons of spring, and a romp through the park will bring health quicker than most anything else.”
• “The long delayed Boy Scout movement has finally been started. Lawrence lads have been promised for months by the Y.M.C.A. that a camp would be organized here, but the patrol never materialized. Last night Mr. Cross of the Christian church called a number of his Sunday school class together and the First Patrol was mustered in.”
• “Edgar Ford Sheen, a former Lawrence boy now started on the Shubert circuit by Jules Murray, was in Lawrence last night. Sheen was taken from behind the Eldridge desk by Paul Gilmore, because he displayed theatrical talent, and has been gradually rising ever since.”