From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 8, 1911:

• “It was a period of riotous excitement which Bob C. Geffs, a former Lawrence high school lad, spent in San Francisco last month, a period which culminated with his arrest on a charge of forgery, embezzlement, and threatened murder. Geffs, who is well known in Lawrence, eloped with the beautiful wife of a Chicago financier and spent three weeks of poetic bliss … The love of Geffs and his affinity, Mrs. L. W. Wilhelm, was as intense as it was fleeting. They fled to San Francisco to await their opportunity to secure a divorce, but quarreled and separated after three weeks of connubial joy. Geffs is now in prison in San Francisco on a charge of forging his affinity’s name to a check and having substituted glass for a perfect two-carat diamond she wore. Mrs. Browne, the young man’s mother, is going to the defense of her son. Geff spent three years in Lawrence High School, being sent here by his mother when she married a second time.”
• “Under the law Mayor Bishop has little choice in the selection of a man for city marshal. He has two applications under the old soldier preference law and he has no alternative but to send in these names. If the people do not like the old soldier preference law they have a right to have it repealed but while it is on the statute books it ought to be enforced. Fortunately this will not work any hardship. The two men are both men of character and standing…. The old soldier preference law is a good one and this paper believes in its literal enforcement. The old soldiers are entitled to the places when they are capable of filling them. There can be no question about that, if we mean what we say about honoring them for their services to the country.”