From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 25, 1915:

• “The new city directories have been published and have all been distributed in Lawrence. The new book is one of the most complete and well arranged that has ever been put out. It is the largest and contains by far more names than any other edition of the Lawrence directory…. The first name in the directory is Margaret Abbot and the last is Herman Zwick, who has held that position for a number of years. It is very evident that it would be a hard matter to find a person whose name would occupy a lower place in the alphabet…. The name of Smith appears more times in the directory than does any other. It appears 112 times. Brown and Johnson are close contestants following with 91 and 98 respectively. Jones, Williams, Wilson, Miller and several others of equal notoriety are well represented. The Browns, Grays, Blacks, Greens and Whites are all well represented in Lawrence, each color having a good delegation of followers. Golden, however, is too rich a name for many people and but one specimen of the name appears in the name herbarium.”
• “Tuesday night unknown parties tapped a fifty-gallon barrel of roofing paint under a shed against the side of the alley in the rear of E. P. Munk’s roofing supply house at 108 West Seventh street, and took from it at least thirty gallons of paint valued at 70 cents per gallon. The shed contained a various assortment of oils and paints of different grades but the one barrel was the only thing disturbed…. Mr. Munk has a well-defined theory that the parties that stole the paint were really after pitch, and in the darkness might have thought that was what they were getting.”
• “The Pi Beta Phi sorority will build a new chapter house in Lawrence this spring and summer. It is the plan of the sorority to have it completed in time for occupancy by the time school opens next fall. The new house is to be located at the corner of Mississippi and Thirteenth streets. It will be built three stories high over the basement which will be finished. The house will contain about seventeen rooms.”
• “Work is progressing well on the two new flower beds at the city hall. Concrete borders are being made and they will make very attractive places. ‘We expect to plant only the most choice of flowers in our flower beds,’ the occupants of the city hall say.”