100 years ago: First milk permit issued in Lawrence

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 4, 1915:

  • “The permit forms which every dairyman selling milk under the new city ordinance must have, have been completed and are now waiting for the milk sellers at the city hall. W. H. Kelley, of 1336 Tennessee street, was the first dairyman to get a permit. Mr. Kelley called at the city hall early this morning and was granted permit number one to sell milk and cream in the city of Lawrence. He has three cows, according to his permit, which are kept in the country. Bottling is done at 1336 Tennessee street and the headquarters are there…. The cows in Mr. Kelley’s herd are not tuberculin tested and that means that he must label all his milk as ‘non T.B. tested’ as provided by the city law. The label is placed under the cap of the bottle. After December 21 it will be unlawful for any dairyman to sell milk from cows that have reacted positively to the tuberculin test…. According to the provisions of the ordinance all milk men must take out licenses and are supposed to do it right away.”
  • “Lawrence M. Allison, who was graduated from the School of Engineering at the University a year ago last June, has completed a new monoplane which he made from the propeller to rudder himself, and has it stored at his home on Ohio street until his return from Buffalo, New York. Mr. Allison made the struts and bars from spruce, the frame of the wings of pine, and the wings themselves of oiled muslin, giving him a frame so light that a child can lift it without the motor…. He turned the propeller in Fowler Shops at the University. He is now an aeroplane designer in the Curtis shops in Buffalo, New York.”
  • “Watson Dodge, who was a sophomore in the college at the University last winter, is employed at his father’s store in Oakley, Kansas, this summer. Dodge will be back at the University next winter, he says, and will be glad to get back to school after a summer in western Kansas. This season is the first in years when then country around Oakley, which is near Colby, in the far western part of the state, has had more rain than it knows what to do with. Wheat, however, is making a fair yield, he says, and the crop outlook is fair.”
  • “Haskell still retains her place at the top of the Twilight [League] by defeating the Odd Sox last night by a score of 6 to 3 on the Haskell diamond. At the same time the Y. M. C. A. defeated the Honks at Woodland Park and brought herself into second place…. Each of these three teams have won one game and lost two while Haskell has a record of three wins to her credit.”