From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 27, 1914:

• “Olin Collier, a young university student whose home is in Winfield, has become at least temporarily insane and his friends are going to take his case in charge…. For the last few days Collier has been acting queerly. He has been hiring taxis, and burning the candle at both ends by being up both night and day. He visited his attorney a half dozen times Saturday night and routed up a newspaper man at 4:30 Sunday morning for the purpose of getting some printing done…. Collier’s mother became ill a month or so ago and it has worried him very much. He rooms at 1338 Ohio street and his landlady says that he has been unable to sleep for some time. He seems to have become possessed of the idea that he was to give a series of wrestling matches…. Since that time he has been busy making plans for a big meet here and also for going out on a trip. Saturday night seemed to put the finishing touches on the man’s insanity. That night he was out all night in a taxi and visited numerous houses. He called people over the telephone and showed generally that he was demented…. During the past week this student has bothered the chancellor and a number of downtown people considerably and they have been fearing that his mind was off. He took an early train for Kansas City Sunday morning and this morning wired that he was stopping at the Sexton hotel. His friends will at once take steps to have him attended to. This is a sad case as he is an unusually bright young man. He is a student in the college in the Sophomore year. He will be taken to a sanitarium and given a rest. His father will look after him.”
• “‘Work will begin tomorrow on the new wells,’ was the word given out this morning at the office of the water company. The contracts have been let and the work will be pushed as rapidly as possible. It is possible that one well will be down within 30 days. Work will then be started on the second. When these are completed it is estimated that the capacity of the plant will be increased one-third…. Were it not for the three unusually dry years we have had, no new wells wold be needed. The ground has literally been tapped of all surplus water.”
• “The showers yesterday were certainly appreciated. And it is hoped that they will continue. The farmers are really alarmed about the condition of the ground. Unless a liberal amount of rain is received this spring we will have a duplication of last year’s drought. The grass that has been sowed this spring is very badly in need of moisture. It has had enough rain to sprout but will not stand many hot days without more rain…. And while corn planting time is here and the farmers are anxious to be at their spring work they would gladly foreswear the pleasure if they might have a week of rain.”
• “Sadie Caldwell was arrested again this morning on a charge of selling intoxicating liquor. She is out on bond awaiting trail in the May term of court on a felony charge. The felony is constituted by the persistent sale of liquor.”
• “Mark Randolph had a black spring wagon stolen from his barn at 1014 Mississippi street late last night or early this morning. He did not notice that it was gone till about noon today. The track where they had pulled the wagon out of the shed and hitched a horse to it was easily seen, showing that it had been taken since the rain last evening. Mr. Randolph traced the wagon through the alleys in a zigzag course as far as Warren [Ninth] street, where the trail was lost among other tracks.”