From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 30, 1915:

• “The first event of the golf schedule of the Country Club since its founding and the first event of the season will be a team match played Saturday and Sunday afternoons at the club links. Captains Jones and Barteldes have chosen their teams and the men have been notified and asked to meet at the first tee…. The grounds have been mowed and put in excellent condition. The fine spring weather has given the members of the club who will participate in the match ample opportunity to condition themselves and an interesting and close contest is expected.”
• “New buildings and betterments to the value of several thousand dollars are in progress out at Haskell, exclusive of the new gymnasium. Completed, these buildings and improvements will add considerably to the general impressiveness of the institution. All the work is under the direction of the instructing carpenter, C. R. Dicker, and the greater part of the labor is done by the Indians…. A cottage is being built for the Institute physician, Charles F. Ensign, on the east side…. Improvements that will aggregate in cost about between $2,200 and $2,300 are being made to the residence occupied last by the assistant engineer…. After remodeling it is to be used as a model domestic science home…. Work on the gymnasium has been suspended pending the arrival of dimension iron.”
• “The officers of the Douglas County Good Roads Association are sending out literature over the county to get the farmers more interested in the association. A great deal of interest has been displayed among some of the communities but there is chance for greater interest in other localities. Many of the neighborhoods pride themselves in keeping the roads in better condition than any of the other parts of the county and they pay very strict attention to dragging the roads regularly.”
• “William Miller is having the barn on his property at Banks [19th] and Haskell remodeled, including putting on a new roof.”
• “W. H. Pendleton, who has been quite ill, is said to be steadily improving.”