From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 10, 1914:

• “Business at the polling places in the city was brisk today from the opening of the polls at 7 o’clock this morning. With continued activity about the voting places the indications were for a heavy vote to be counted at 7 o’clock this evening when the election will be declared over. The registration for this election reached a record figure of 5,600 and the indications were that a larger per cent of the registered vote would appear at the polls today than is the general circumstance. The interest in the election today is such as to bring out the vote as it is seldom brought out…. In addition to the selection of candidates Lawrence today voted on the proposition of issuing bonds in the sum of $197,500 for the purpose of purchasing the property of the Lawrence Water Company. The water question is one of the biggest issues that has been before the people in years and a big vote is expected on the question. The result of this part of the election seems to be much of a guess, both sides of the question expressing confidence.”
• “As usual the Journal-World will be headquarters for election news tonight. The office will keep open and telephone calls will be answered as promptly as possible. Those who wish to know the results are invited to call at the office or over the phones and they will be posted on the latest developments. The polls, however, will not close to the voters until 7 o’clock and it will be an hour or more after that before anything more than the total vote will be known. A heavy vote is being cast and election officials will have a big job making the count. Mayor Bond has requested the election clerks and judges to count the vote on the candidates first and then afterward the vote on the water works question.”
• “Three Baker University students broke into the city police court yesterday afternoon and tasted the bitter dregs of justice. The trio of collegians was hailed before the chief high tribunal on the municipal bench on a charge of playing baseball in the quiet street of the city…. Without difficulty the town marshal rounded up the ball players and hurried them before Judge N. A. Skinner. No difficulty was experienced in making the arrests and with the three before the judgement bar pleas of guilty were readily secured from the accused. The minimum fine of $1 and costs was assessed in each case. The youths paid up and were released.”
• “The Journal-World was asked today why it was that the loan sharks were so bitter against the paper. That’s dead easy. They have been robbing the people and the Journal-World has served notice that it is going to get after them. If you had as much to fear from the Journal-World you would be just as vindictive. The loan sharks who are saying mean things are all trying to discredit their exposure which is sure to come. They are paying the paper the highest possible compliment.”
• “The fire in St. Louis yesterday morning which destroyed the building occupied by the Missouri Athletic Club has occasioned the calling off of the meet to have been held there Saturday night. The Kansas track team was to have left here Friday afternoon to participate in this event.”
• “The county commissioners of Douglas county met yesterday with the commissioners of Leavenworth county to discuss the proposition of the repair of the bridge over the Kansas River at Eudora. No decision was reached as to the extent of repairs. but it was decided that they would meet together at the bridge on Thursday and make a thorough examination of it and find out exactly what was needed.”