From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 22, 1914:

• “Athletic Manager W. O. Hamilton is planning a big grand opening parade for the football season this year, the same as was staged last year. The only difference will be that the one this year will be larger than any before. Students, citizens and merchants will be called on to help make this opening parade a grand success. Everyone is asked to decorate for the occasion and boost wherever there is a chance. This parade will be on the day of the first football game which is on October 3, when K. U. opens the season of 1914 with William Jewell. The parade will start at South Park and will go over town and end up at McCook Field. The parade will be led by the University band, followed by the William Jewell team and their coaches, the K. U. team, Chancellor Strong and the Board of Administration, distinguished guests, possibly Governor Hodges, mayor and commissioners of Lawrence, newspaper men, athletic board, deans of the different schools, student council, business men’s section, all other autos, K. U. students on foot and the ward school students…. Special space will be reserved inside the fence for all autos taking part in the parade.”
• “Mr. W. A. Harris of Ottawa was in Lawrence today proposing to the grocers that they install the merchants’ ‘delivery system,’ whereby one company can make all of the grocery deliveries for all of the grocery stores. Mr. Harris showed where the system is used and has been for some time that it had proved very effective in towns like Salina, Ottawa, Arkansas City, Wellington, Wamego, and numerous other places of Kansas…. Mr. Harris has financed the system at Ottawa and is ready to do the same thing with the system here if the grocers are so disposed.”
• “The crowded condition of the New York school is being relieved by Superintendent Smith. He said this morning that the third and fifth grades of the New York school were being transferred to the Central school. This arrangement will make more satisfactory the crowded condition of the New York school.”
• “Mayor Francisco and Fire Chief Reinisch were in Kansas City yesterday looking at the Knox Fire truck. They like the looks and power of the car as well as any they have seen. It was demonstrated to them and they say that it has excellent power…. The Commissioners are very anxious to get the best car accessible for the money they have to spend and they are exercising great care in the selection of the car. Th City will be able to contract for a new fire truck as soon as the fall taxes are in the process of collection.”
• “This is the scientific age – the age of the iceless refrigerators and the fireless cooker. Housekeeping has not yet reached the stage of merely pressing a button and letting electricity do the rest – but it is nearing it. The market is full of devices for lightening kitchen labor. They are of keen interest to every American woman because they make life easier.”