From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 6, 1914:

• “It is now a certain fact that Haskell will have a new gymnasium. A $30,000 appropriation has been made at Washington and the word reached Lawrence yesterday and the officers and students at the Indian institute are now very jubilant. It is of especial interest to Dr. Kennedy, the coach of athletics, and it was he who made the fact first known to this paper…. The building will be fully equipped and completely modern and the entire amount of the appropriation will be expended to make it so. It may also be used as an auditorium and the boys drilling and military work will be done there. A modern basketball court of regulation size will be a valuable addition to the athletic equipment of Haskell as many of the teams of the state are passing up the Indians for basketball games because of the two rows of posts inside of the playing space of the present basketball court.”
• “Secretary Murphy stated at noon today that the officers of the Douglas County Fair met this morning and had closed a contract with the Ed A. Evans Carnival Company, which is one of the largest and cleanest carnival companies to be obtained anywhere. The company will open on Monday in the evening of Labor Day and will show all of that week. The officers have been assured that the company will be first class, clean and moral. The company will come here from Grand Island, Neb.”
• “The application for a new charter for the Country Club was made this morning and sent to Topeka. Mr. R. M. Perkins, who has been looking after this part of the club, stated this morning that it would probably be 2 weeks before the charter would be granted.”
• “Kansas is in need of some north and south roads that will match up with the highways being opened up through the east and west, according to E. O. Perkins, president of the Douglas County Automobile and Good Roads Association of Lawrence…. The county commissioners of Douglas county have recently purchased a steam grader which is being used on the designated county roads. The county also pays the expenses of continuous dragging of the roads. The commissioners have taken advantage of the new law which permits a tax levy of one mill for road purposes. With this fund and the fund derived from the motor tax Douglas County will have a respectable sum with which to do effective road work.”
• “Commissioner W. W. Holyfield made the third and last call for poll tax this morning. He said that those who had been notified to pay their tax had better come across or they would have to suffer the consequences as the poll tax was going to be collected.”
• “The Farmers’ Union held their picnic at Brown’s Grove today. There was an exceptionally good crowd present and all enjoyed the good times that were to be had there. Several people went out from town to the picnic.”