From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 10, 1911:

• “The board of trustees of Grant township met yesterday with the county commissioners to ask county aid in building a concrete bridge over the Mud Creek drainage ditch, which runs along the foothills north of the town. It is the idea of the Grant township board to build the bridge either wholly of concrete, or of reinforced concrete and steel with cement floor, and the cost will approximate a thousand dollars. The span will be forty feet long.”
• “Kansas has 84 boy scout masters and three assistant masters; that is a very good showing, and the Lawrence boys contribute their share to this good showing for the local boy scouts are very enthusiastic.”
• “The Journal-World takes pleasure in announcing that beginning with tomorrow it will publish some very good recipes, the work of Lee Bearden, the chef at the Eldridge. Mr. Bearden is now chef here and has prepared some very fine banquets. Mr. Bearden had this to say of the recipes that the Journal-World will make known: ‘I highly esteem the respect and honor shown me by liberal patronage of various citizens of Lawrence during my stay in the city and in commemoration of same will take pride in placing the name of Lawrence at the head of some of my select dishes.'”