From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for August 21, 1914:

• “Several hundred people enjoyed the 12th Annual Central Protective Association picnic held at Eudora yesterday. The small town was swamped with the large number of guests and there was scarcely driving room through the streets of Eudora and in the roads near the grove where the picnic was held at the south edge of town. A large number of Lawrence people were in attendance. The Santa Fe train leaving Lawrence shortly after noon yesterday carried about 100 passengers from here and many automobiles well loaded with people made the trip.”
• “It was a noticeable fact yesterday that nearly all of our highly respected county officials were not on duty during some part of the day yesterday. They were attending the picnic at Eudora and enjoying the occasion with the rest of the people. To one who attended the picnic it was also noticeable that most all of them together with others who are aspirants to county jobs, kept the bystander on the Eudora grounds busy chucking political cards in his pocket to read after he or she got home. One didn’t have time to look over the bounteous supply given him on the grounds…. One good brother told the writer that he was keeping them until he arrived home and would look over them all at the same time.”
• “Thirty automobiles, filled mostly with Kansas business men, but with about a dozen Missourians sprinkled in, have invaded Colorado. The main body arrived in Denver Wednesday night with fourteen cars carrying sixty-five tourists and the other sixteen cars with fifty-four travelers came into the state yesterday. The party, which was organized by S. W. Forrester, an automobile man, started August 17. Half came west over the Golden Belt route and the others took the Santa Fe trail…. This is the largest party of tourists which has visited Colorado this year and Colorado is doing its best to make them feel at home. Estes park, Pike’s Peak, Lookout mountain and other scenic points will be visited by the Kansans before they start home.”
• “Today is the fifty-first anniversary of the sacking of Lawrence by Quantrell. It was known as the Lawrence massacre. In the early morning Quantrell and his men arrived in town and began to burn all of the buildings and kill everyone they saw…. Last year the fiftieth anniversary of the raid was held here. There were a number of people present at the meeting who lived here at the time of the raid and many were the stories told of the slaughter in Lawrence on the day of the raid.”
• “The state laboratories reported to the city engineer yesterday on the samples of water which were sent to them for analysis a few days ago. There were three samples of water sent, one from the test well in North Lawrence, another from the city water and another from the proposed supply south of town. The state chemist reported that the water in the test well, which is located in North Lawrence, was probably the best. From a bacteriological standpoint the water was exceptionally pure for a test well. He said that there is less iron in it than there was in the city water now in use. The water from the well south of town, where there has been some talk of making a test, is harder than either of the other samples.”
• “A cablegram was received here from Miss Annie Wight, the well known Lawrence music teacher, who has been spending the summer in Europe. Miss Wight cabled that she would sail for the United States on the vessel Corona. Her tour of Europe was necessarily cut short as she expected to spend some time in France, Germany, Belgium and other territories now in a state of war.”