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

• “Yesterday morning at about six o’clock as W. H. Weber, who runs a meat market in North Lawrence, went down to open his market, there were two men there waiting for him and when he opened the market they held him up and robbed him of about $80. When Mr. Weber opened the shop the men followed him in and asked him about a small piece of bacon and said they would buy it. He turned around to slice it up for then and when he again faced them they had him covered with a gun. They told him to keep still and they went through his desk and found the money…. The whole affair was very quiet, and owing to the early hour no one was astir and no one saw the robbers come and go. They left the shop and disappeared without any one except Mr. Weber seeing them.”
• “J. R. Wise, Superintendent of Haskell, has returned from the east and is very optimistic concerning the prospects for the new gymnasium that Haskell is soon to have. He said this morning that the appropriation which passed in Congress was for $25,000 instead of $30,000 as was first supposed here. He also stated today that lines were out now to get plans and specifications for the building and that work would start as soon as the plans could be approved because it was much desired to have the building under roof before the severe weather.”
• “One of the largest picnics held in this county will be the one given by the C. P. A. Lodge at Eudora on Thursday, August 20. In the past the C. P. A. has been one of the largest attended picnics, and the most popular for entertainments. The one that is to be given next week will be no exception to the rule. The Committee on Entertainment have been working hard and have one of the best picnic programs planned that they have ever had. This will be the twelfth annual picnic.”
• “[Fair Officer] Secretary Murphy says that the County Fair will make a special feature of exhibition of the babies. Each baby will be weighed, measured and its photograph taken. A score card record will be kept and each mother will be presented with the photograph and the record that is made from the weights and measurements. It is earnestly desired that every mother in the county bring the baby and participate in this exhibition.”
• “Famine will stalk through Europe in the van of war. Last night prices in London for food staples have already soared skyward. In Germany, Austria and Russia, where the government has requisitioned enormous supplies of food for provisioning of its troops, the situation is acute…. Shipping has already been paralyzed by the imminence of war.”