From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 15, 1915:

• “A practical joke has been going the rounds of several telephone exchanges, and the managers are giving out the tip so that the unwary of Lawrence may not be caught and inconvenienced. The joker picks out a subscriber, usually a friend, and after first introducing himself as an official of the telephone company, in an authoritative tone asks the subscriber to place a cloth over the telephone transmitter and receiver to keep the house from getting dirty while the company blows the dust out of the wires. Many subscribers have thoughtlessly followed directions and in some cases the receiver was left off the hook for several hours causing a general demoralization of the telephone service. So if you receive a call to the effect that your telephone needs bandaging, be on your guard.”
• “Placards bearing the laws of the state and the city ordinance in regard to the sale of tobacco and cigarettes with a preamble reciting the evil effects of the use of cigarettes are being placed in the school buildings and in places of business where the proprietors desire. These cards were prepared by the committee for anti-cigarette work and were neatly framed by the boys of the manual training department.”
• “Announcement of the thirty-fourth annual encampment of the Kansas G. A. R. at Hutchinson, May 11, 12, and 13, is contained in the general order issued yesterday by Ira D. Brougher, department commander of the Kansas Grand Army. Elaborate plans for the entertainment of the veterans are being made in Hutchinson. The salt city has promised to extend herself to do honor to the old soldiers…. Besides the officially appointed delegates at least twenty-five veterans are expected to journey from Lawrence to be present at this annual gathering of the boys in blue…. Commander Brougher says in issuing the order: ‘We are exerting every effort to entertain and make this one of the best encampments held in the state. Your Commander is anxious to meet all the comrades who are physically able to attend this meeting, as it will be but a few years until these annual meetings of the comrades of ’61 to ’65 will be of the past; so all come and meet your old comrades once more.'”
• “Motorists who have been traveling the country roads during the past week report that they are in the very best of condition. Especially the main traveled roads are in good condition for the farmers along the roads have taken an active interest in putting the roads in good shape and have done some very effective work.”
• “Flags in Lawrence are floating at half mast today in commemoration of the death of Abraham Lincoln, who died fifty years ago today, having been shot on April 14, 1865, by a fanatic, Wilkes Booth, while attending the theater. The flags are up today to call the minds of the American people to the things that were done by the wonderful president for the welfare of the country for which he died.”
• “The Haskell Indians opened their baseball season today with a trip to St. Marys. The team has been working hard ever since the weather was fit and have developed a fast team that will give the reputed St. Marys bunch a race for their money. St. Marys always has a good baseball team as baseball is their big game…. The Haskell bunch plan to give the Catholics a race for their score this afternoon.”