From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 25, 1914:

• “The representatives of the entomology department of the University of Kansas will start out on their 39th annual expedition for the Museum of the University on Monday night. They will go through Western Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico and will look for specimens on which to work and add to the already large museum. Prof. S. J. Hunter said today that some of the finest specimens in the museum had come to them by means of these summer trips in the Western states…. The party will start from Lawrence on the evening train Monday and will go directly to Hamilton county where they expect to start the expedition. They will take all of their equipment with them and will get a team there and make the tour from Western Kansas by wagon…. The entomology department of the University has already done much for the farmers and will be able to do much more when they are acquainted with the proposition locally. They have done much this year in assisting the farmer to keep the grasshopper down.”
• “There is one line of business that has not been hurt by the present water shortage. The University complains, the ice plant says they are inconvenienced, the railroads have to get their water on both sides of Lawrence which is not to their liking, the town suffers because it must shut off the fountain at the park and quit sprinkling the street, the people generally are complaining, but the retailers of pure drinking water say that the present conditions are helping their business materially. Said J. H. Wilder, manager of the Lawrence Bottling Works, ‘Our business has been increasing steadily ever since the water trouble began.’ The recent report of the water analysis department on the condition of the 1200 wells in Lawrence also has helped to increase the business of the sellers of pure drinking water. The report that there was very little well water safe to drink has put the people on their guard and many of them have discontinued the use of well water for drinking purposes…. The report that the water company had at different times taken river water has scared a good many people into discontinuing the use of the water for drinking.”
• “C. B. Hosford returned last night from a tour of northern Kansas and he says that he never saw anything looking better anywhere. He said the farmers of northern Kansas were careful about keeping the roads dragged and they were all in the very best of condition. The corn, Mr. Hosford said, would produce more bushels than Kansas ever produced before.”