From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 5, 1911:

• “‘Judging from the number of couples that pass my house daily I should think that girls were the most important factor in college life.’ That was Chancellor Strong talking at the chapel exercises this morning on ‘Girls.’ The subject is very timely just now before the Woman’s Day program which is being used to launch the campaign for the dormitory. Speaking on this subject the Chancellor said that it is imperative that K.U. have some such place. ‘Last year,’ he said, ‘we had 892 girls at the University, mostly from Kansas. This year we would have had 150 more, but we had no adequate place for housing them, to which their mothers wished to send them.’ Dr. Strong then went on to tell of the conditions at other colleges in regard to dormitories.”
• “The first frost of the season arrived in Lawrence last evening. That is more good news than simply talking about the weather for it means that winter is really here and that there will be no more scorching hot days. It means also that those who suffer from hay fever can smile again.”
• “It is quite probable that early next spring the improvement in the 800 block begun by Fischer, Miss Walters and Phil Ernst will be continued until there is a row of handsome new fronts clear to Henry [currently 8th] street. The same general plan of fronts with gray brick will probably be carried out and the new fronts will include Newmark’s, Peckham’s, Starkweather’s, University Book Store and Woodward’s. Woodward’s Old Round Corner is one of the landmarks of the town, being built soon after the sacking of Lawrence by Quantrell. Many of the fronts have been improved from time to time and some of them are quite modern in appearance, but while the first floors have been improved little or nothing has been done in improving the upper stories.”
• “The ‘Katy’ train number 29 southbound was held up in a cut six miles south of Bartlesville, Okla., this morning. Three masked men looted the baggage and express cars, but it is believed they got little. A sheriff’s posse and bloodhounds will go on the train.”