From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 21, 1915:

• “‘A place for everybody to travel and every one traveling in his place,’ is the motto of the city officials and they are making preparation to force every one to obey the traffic regulations in Lawrence. In the past there has been little attention paid to the traffic regulations of the city and people coming to Lawrence remark that there is surely a bunch of ‘Jay’ drivers in this town. Most of the motorists as well as the people who drive buggies and wagons do not acquaint themselves with the traffic regulations and consequently accidents occur…. The officers decided that in order to get the people to turn the corners properly a white square painted on the pavement in the center of the cross streets would be a great benefit in making the people turn the corners properly. In turning into an intersecting street it is necessary for the driver to pass the white square before the turn is made. By educating the people to the regulations on Massachusetts it will have a great effect on their driving when in other parts of the city…. After the people have been made to follow the rules for a while they will see that it is to their interest and to that of every one else to travel in accordance with the regulations.”
• “Three thousand two hundred fifty-two carloads of flour is the annual output of the Bowersock Mills at Lawrence, and of this amount twenty per cent, or 650 carloads, is exported. The balance of 2,602 carloads is sold and consumed in Eastern Kansas, in Missouri, Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin. It is such things in addition to the 4,000,000 cigars made here annually that keep Lawrence on the map industrially speaking…. It sounds oddly, but it is true, says Mr. Bowersock, that but little of the 500,000 bushels of wheat raised in Douglas county, is milled here. Douglas county grows soft wheat, and for the most part it is shipped east for milling, while the mills here are kept going on hard Turkey wheat raised on the high plains to the westward…. It makes a ‘strong’ flour that is popular wherever splendid bread is the staple article of diet instead of hot and light rolls and similar preparations.”
• “One hundred forty-one loads of trash and dirt have been removed from the east side of town and 75 from the west side in the clean-up movement which has been in progress during the past few days. In one block ten loads were gathered by the residents…. W. H. Boltz, welfare officer, invites all who doubt the success of a clean-up movement to view the alleys of Lawrence.”