From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 22, 1915:

“Men and women are but boys and girls grown up, and the old boys and girls of Lawrence who have reached or have passed the age of seventy-five are asked by the Journal-World and the Gazette to be children once more on September 3rd and be their guests to the Sells Floto-Buffalo Bill circus. Every arrangement will be made to see that the guests have a good time. They are asked to gather in the lower room of the Baptist church on Friday, September 3rd at as near to 1 o’clock as possible so they can meet one another for a few minutes before being taken in automobiles to the show grounds…. As in the past the Lawrence Railway & Light Company has stood ready to furnish cars, but on account of the crowds who will be in attendance at the shows it has been deemed best to ask that the people of Lawrence having automobiles arrange to take the old folks out in their cars and to bring them back after the show is over.”

“J. Longnecker, 836 Rhode Island, has returned from his first visit to the neighborhood in which he was born and which he left for Lawrence in 1869. He attended at Greenville, Ohio, near Dayton, a re-union of the Longneckers. Eighty-odd were present, but interest centers around the thirteen living brothers and sisters of which Mr. Longnecker is one. They are nine brothers and four sisters. Mr. Longnecker is 72.”

“At 2 o’clock this afternoon the county commissioners in called session began to listen to arguments in favor of relocating the bridge across the river at the end of Massachusetts street, the petitions asking for the relocation setting forth that it is advisable to start the structure from the south side of the river with the sides of the bridge coinciding with the side lines of the street. In other words eliminating the ‘jog’ by putting the bridge several rods nearer the Bowersock mills…. The element in favor of the original location were perfectly willing to give the opposition all the leeway they might want, and remained away.”

“Residents of Leavenworth are mystified by the discovery of old bridge stringers buried in the mud of a small stream near there. The stringers were found by workmen excavating for the foundations of a new structure and it is believed they are the remnants of a bridge erected by the government about 1850, although no record of such a bridge can be found. Since all work done since the incorporation of the city, in 1854, is on record, it is believed that the bridge was constructed earlier and it is asserted that it may have been the first such structure erected in Kansas.”

“The campaign against booze in Lawrence goes merrily on and with special officers, cooperation between county and city officials, and almost daily inquests by the county attorney’s special assistant, C. C. Stewart, the liquor dealers are in hard lines…. The campaign against whisky venders has been waged very successfully all this month and has resulted in a large number of convictions. The city and county officers have both been hard at work and many schemes have been used to collect the evidence.”