From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 6, 1915:

• “The officials at the Y. M. C. A. are planning on giving next Wednesday and Thursday one of the biggest swimming exhibitions among the younger boys that has ever been held in Lawrence in which from sixty to seventy boys will display such swimming and diving feats as the Australian crawl, overhand, back and dog fashion swims; and among the different ways of diving straight, swan, jack-knife, and Australian splash. In addition to these there will be races, demonstrations in first aid to the drowning, carrying unconscious people in water and also many other features…. ‘We are particularly anxious to have all the Lawrence mothers possible out at this exhibition,’ said Secretary Howard Boltz, of the Y. M. C. A., today, who has general supervision of the work, ‘for I am confident that they will be glad to see the progress that the youngsters have made.’… When the Y. M. C. A. announced that free swimming lessons would be given to the kiddies of Lawrence, early this spring by a notice in The Journal-World, the children at once got busy and as a result the big pool at the gymnasium has been busy all summer and dozens of boys have learned how to swim. ‘This is one of the most valuable movements to the city that has been pulled off this summer,’ said a prominent Lawrence business man today, ‘and is only another instance of the additional advantages that the young people of this generation have. If I had had such an opportunity of this kind I wouldn’t be afraid to go on the river. The value of such an opportunity cannot be overestimated.'”
• “Johnny Godfrey, of 288 Ash street, North Lawrence, was injured in a ball game at the picnic of the north side Methodist church, held at Brown’s Grover yesterday, when he was struck by a foul ball. He was taken to the office of Dr. Carl Phillips, in the Fraternal Aid building, in an automobile belonging to W. A. Pine, and treated. He is resting easily today and will recover soon, it is said. Godfrey was catching behind the bat in the ball game, which was one of the features, and had no protector to break the force of the ball. He is the son of P. Godfrey.”
• “Miss Cleta Johnson, who has been visiting with friends in Topeka for the past week, has returned to the city. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Johnson, who live north of town. Mrs. Johnson, who was in Lawrence this morning, says that the road from Midland is much improved and that few bad holes remain in it. Last Monday, however, she says, the water was six inches over the axles of the buggy in some places.”
• “Hutchinson, Kan. – For twenty-two years a shortage has existed in the Reno county treasury – not through any defalcation of a treasurer, but because of a bank failure in 1893. When the Hutchinson National bank failed, Reno county lost $13,705.05 held on deposit in the bank. Ever since it has been necessary to carry the item ‘in the red’ on the treasury books to make them balance. Today the county commissioners decided to balance the books by means of a resolution, striking off the item. ‘Then we’ll forget it, if we can,’ said one of the commissioners. ‘We can never recover the money.'”