From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 1, 1914:

• “The reports of the various officers to the City Commissioners took up most of the time of the meeting of the commissioners this morning…. Bills for the enlargement of the entrance to the fire department were considered…. The entrance to the department will scarcely admit the new fire car and the driver must exercise great care in going through. It is impossible to hurry through the entrance as some serious accident might occur…. At the meeting this afternoon the contract for widening the entrance to the fire department was given to Wm. Nadelhoffer. The entrance will be ten feet square when it is finished.”
• “Word from Prof. Hubach at Redland, California, where he is in charge of the music department in a university, says that they like their new location very much. In his letter he tells of going deer hunting in the mountains near Redland and of eating oranges off the trees in his own orchard…. He says the climate there is all that can be desired and the associates with whom he will work the coming season are all of the type with whom one would care to associate.”
• “Another Douglas county product, or rather development, is the Stella peach, which the Ayers family will put upon the market next year. The peach is rich flavored and pretty.”
• “The series of meetings held at the Sigel school house by Dr. Coombs of Clinton, have closed…. The meetings were well attended, many coming for miles. The interest was great and the results were very satisfactory…. These revivals are attracting attention to country work. The one at Sigel and the one at the Glenn church west of Lecompton were in the hottest seasons of the year and yet both were largely attended. It indicates that the country people are anxious for religious instruction.”
• “London — A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram from St. Petersburg says by imperial order, the City of St. Petersburg, the capital of the Russian empires since 1712, will henceforth be known as Petrograd. This change eliminates the Teuton construction in the name by which the chief city of Russia has been known since it was founded by Peter the Great.”
• “Rome — A telegram received from Berlin announces the mobilization of the Turkish army. Following the advice of Field Marshal Baron Von Der Goltz it is stated that the Turkish government will form an army of the first line composed of 200,000 men, all Mohammedans.”