From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 10, 1913:

• “There will be a lot of men out of work this fall and winter. There is less public improving than for years. It becomes a matter of grave concern how many families are going to get through the winter. There is little real charity work in Lawrence, but there is a lot of neighborly work that needs attention. The city should take steps to have some improvements undertaken. There is a lot that needs to be done…. Paving ought to be started for the winter. Then if it is possible men ought to be employed this winter in getting out rock and doing some of the preliminary work for the new bridge…. It becomes an acute question what to do with laboring men on years when the short crops stop general improvements. What can Lawrence do to give deserving men who must have work to live an opportunity to make a living?”
• “Now that the question of city water has been answered satisfactorily the well water proposition comes bobbing up again. This time it is in the nature of a warning from the State Board of Health. At its Topeka office the state board has been keeping a very careful watch on conditions in this city, tests have been made and the results have been kept From these the well water of the city of Lawrence has been found wanting in many respects and hence a warning to avoid the use of it. The advice comes from Dr. John J. Sippy, assistant secretary of the state board who has addressed a letter to the Journal-World in which he says that few wells in a city of the size of Lawrence can escape contamination and that from present reports the city water is much better and should be used in preference to well water unless the latter is boiled or treated. Dr. Sippy especially warns keepers of boarding and rooming houses where students reside during the coming school year.”