From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 13, 1915:

• “Reports that the Federated Women’s Clubs of Kansas is trying to have the state flower changed from the sunflower to the petunia are absolutely unfounded, according to Mrs. H. B. Asher, of this city, and a former secretary of the Federation, and do not represent the sentiment of the majority of the clubs in the organization. ‘The State Federation of Women’s Clubs has had the sunflower as its own flower for over twenty years,’ said Mrs. Asher today, ‘and a facsimile of the yellow flower is always on the outside of all of the programs of the state meetings. Our badge consists of a sunflower with a small American flag attached and to say that we want the state flower changed for the petunia is ridiculous.’ Mrs. Asher does not know how the story, which has been going the rounds in the Kansas press for several months, got started, but she is confident that the federation will not allow it to be done with its sanction.”
• “Every business man in the city who can send a man, or more than one man, to work on the country roads August 18-19 should report at once to the secretary of the Merchants’ Association, or to the Automobile Club. And every man in town who proposes to go on his own responsibility should register. This will enable the promoters of the event to approximate in advance the amount of work that can be done, and they will thus be able to distribute the men to the best advantage. Registration will also enable the housewives of the country to judge intelligently about the amount of dinner to prepare in advance.”
• “Complaint has reached the Journal-World regarding uncut grass and weeds on several of the school house grounds. The city and board of education should aim to set a pattern that the common citizen might well follow.”
• “A large concourse of children is found today in Woodland Park, gathered there to have a good time under the auspices of the Salvation Army. The weather is perfect, and the children, nearly three hundred of them, regard the refreshments, the dinner and the other things provided for their amusement and eating, in the same light. Let the community rejoice with these little ones, ‘for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven.'”
• “Fall plowing is proceeding under difficulties. The drenching and incessant rains gave no opportunity for surface ventilation, and the result is that many thousands of acres, especially where there is considerable proportion of clay in the soil, is packed solid, instead of being friable. The result is that three and four horses are necessary to turn the ground over in fields that do not even have any growth of weeds to obstruct the plow. The soil breaks up into big clods and cakes, and the work is very exhausting for horses. There is much less trouble where the proportion of sand in the soil is larger. In all cases, there is an abundance of moisture below the surface, which is caked to a depth of from four to six inches, and sometimes farther.”