From the Lawrence Daily World for Jan. 31, 1911:

• “Lawrence will be represented at the Kansas Day Banquet to be held in the Masonic Temple at Topeka this evening. Irving Hill, Senator J. L. Brady, W. C. Simons, Charles Finch and Harry Allphin have already reserved places. The banquet will commemorate the admission of Kansas into the union. It will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of the state.”
• “Damage to the building of perhaps $100 accompanied by a loss on the contents of approximately $5,000 was the peculiar result attendant upon a fire in the Rutter Garage, 14 E. Henry street this morning. The tiny red Brush runabout belonging to Dr. Morse was drawn out of the burning garage with a long rope, and is undamaged aside from a slight blistering of hte enamel. The David Mulvane car suffered the worst in the fire. This morning only the running gear remains. The car was a new Haynes. The wooden parts of the big five passenger Cadillac of J. W. Miller are also charred and warped.”