100 years ago: Lawrence doctor has hopes for municipal hospital

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 16, 1914:

  • “That Lawrence will some day have a modern hospital building owned and operated by the city is the hope of Dr. E. E. Stauffer and others, who have been interested in the work already accomplished by the Social Service league in the hospital ward that has been established at the Social Service hall. ‘What Lawrence needs is a completely equipped and adequate municipal hospital. Wellington, a town of less than seven thousand, has a fine city hospital, and Atchison, with but a thousand more inhabitants more than Lawrence, is just finishing a $60,000 hospital. But Lawrence is going to have one. The beginning has been made in the Social Service League. We realize it is only the beginning but out of it will grow a larger and finer institution. It is mighty fine the way our work is appealing to the citizens of Lawrence. There hasn’t been anything started in Lawrence since I have been in the city that has struck such a responsive chord in the hearts of the people,’ declared Dr. E. E. Stauffer this morning…. “‘In the short time the hospital has been opened there have been nine patients, all of whom have had the very best attention,’ he continued. ‘Mrs. Flory, the visiting nurse, has supervision of all the nursing, while of course, she cannot do all the nursing herself, it being necessary for her to be out calling on her cases in the city, provision has been made whereby graduate nurses do the nursing where the attending physician asks for such a nurse and on all other cases good practical nurses are secured who do their work as directed by Mrs. Flory.'”
  • “The clean-up is on in Lawrence today. Many and many a load of trash, the exact number is not known just yet, but it was a large sized heap of refuse which was gathered up today as a result of the activities along the clean-up line. The citizens joined heartily in the movement and the many teams that were offered for the day found plenty to do. There was no marked excitement but a steady plodding that did great good to the back yards and the alleys and in some cases the front yards…. The clean-up brigade perhaps found a little less to be ashamed of this season than in years before, due, no doubt, to a determined attempt to enforce the city ordinance in this regard.”
  • “Douglas county is going to have its share of the new line from Kansas City to Denver. It is the ‘Red Line’ and is the shortest road between these two points. The road will go through Douglas county and will follow a direct line as far as possible…. The entire length of the road is being worked and is to be made the best route as well as the shortest.”
  • “Plans for a county high school track meet are being made by County Superintendent C. R. Hawley. Mr. Hawley hopes to arrange for a meet some time this spring between the high school of Baldwin, Lecompton and Eudora. A cup probably will be offered and the occasion made a big day for the county high schools.”