From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 13, 1914:

“Lawrence will be well represented at the State Encampment of the Kansas National Guards to be held at Fort Riley commencing Monday, Aug. 17, and lasting ten days. Company M, the prize company of Kansas, Company H of the University, the hospital corps and the First Regimental band will go to the encampment from Lawrence. These troops will go into camp in one of the parks here in Lawrence on Sunday night and will break camp and go to Fort Riley on a special train…. Company M which is to go from Lawrence is considered the best company in Kansas…. The boys from Lawrence will get a real sample of soldier life for a while that will be good experience for them if they are called on for real service. During the encampment at Fort Riley there will be competitive drills, rifle practice, and all of the work common to soldier life.”

“Mr. Gleason, the horse trainer, has been drawing large crowds at Woodland Park every evening. His performance takes well with the people and they like his methods of training. He has brought a number of bad horses under his control and shows that he understands how to handle them. He had a pony there last night that works on the S. & S. grocery delivery wagon and he said this morning that it was the star kicker. He has handled a number of horses but said that the pony had everything beat that he had ever seen.”

“As the result of a meeting of the Board of Education last night the matter of building three new school buildings in Lawrence looks much more probable than it has for the past two months, and in two or three days the choice of an architect will be made…. The board is pushing that work as fast as possible and are going to urge the companies that they have the preliminary sketches ready within the shortest possible space of time, so that the selection can be made and the company that is hired can immediately proceed with his builders’ plans and specification. In all probability the work will go on now without further controversy as the board is tired of having the buildings at a standstill and paying interest on the money without any results.”

“James Arnett and wife, of Lecompton, are being held here at the county court house on suspicion of having stolen some money, which disappeared at Lecompton. It is reported that $70 was recently taken from an elderly gentleman at that place and these people are suspected of being guilty and are lodged in jail here to await further developments.”

“The Farmers’ Institute picnic at the County Home was a great success and everyone felt that they were better fitted to make farm life more pleasant as well as profitable. The program which had been prepared was talks and papers on the improvement and co-operation of farm life.”

“Yesterday the work of the summer session at Kansas University ended and things on the hill will now be rather quiet for the next month until the opening of the fall session of the university.”