From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 20, 1914:

• “Jim Madden appeared in police court this morning to answer a charge of fighting. He pleaded not guilty and the case was continued until the other party in the fight was sufficiently recovered to take the witness stand. It appears that Madden and Lizzie Furgerson were in the Santa Fe restaurant Sunday and there were some words as to who was to pay for what had been purchased. It is alleged that the Furgerson woman whipped out a knife and cut Madden across the back of the neck but he did not realize that he had been knifed until he felt the blood running down his back. The woman made another rush at him and he picked up a stool and struck her over the head in order to defend himself. The woman is now in bed and it will probably be several days before she will be able to appear in court.”
• “General routine business was all that was taken into consideration by the commissioners in their meeting this morning. Nothing was done in regard to the water situation at the session…. The matter of placing warning signs at either end of the bridge was discussed and it was thought advisable to place speed limit signs at either end of the bridge for the safety of the traveling public…. Complaint has come to the commissioners that the children play around the unscreened openings to the storm sewers in Central Park. The commissioners voted to put large flood gates over these entrances to keep the children out of the sewer…. A petition for a light at the corner of Sixteenth and New Hampshire was presented to the commissioners, but they find that there are lights in the very near vicinity and that the light bill each month is all that they can meet.”
• “An interesting feature of the Sixtieth Anniversary services held this week at Plymouth Congregational church, is the museum, containing articles of historical interest in the life of the church. Among the many relics and pictures of the ministers of the Pilgrim Church, in North Lawrence, and of Plymouth church, communion services of both both churches, autograph letters of Plymouth ministers, manuscript sermons of Dr. Cordley, special programs and bulletins of the church, ancient hymnals, a large picture of Lawrence as it appeared in 1854-55, showing the first place of worship of the Plymouth congregation. Still more interesting is the lighting system of the first church in Kansas, as represented by an old-fashioned lantern, which not only afforded light to people on the way to the little hay-tent that served as a church, but also lit up the building during the service.”
• “Considering that the farmers who have lived in the valley of the Big Stranger for a number of years have lost enough by high water in the past few years, P. H. Ross of the Leavenworth County Farm Bureau, which is connected with the United States department of agriculture, has decided that the destruction can be eliminated by the co-operation of the farmers owning land along that body of water. His plan is to straighten and clean the creek. In order to get at the matter right he has planned to hold a series of meetings of the farmers who live along the Big Stranger…. Mr. H. B. Walker, state drainage engineer, will be along with Mr. Ross and will explain the method of procedure.”