From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Aug. 25, 1915:

• “After ten days of early rising, hard work and a lot of drilling, Companies H and M of the Second regiment returned to Lawrence today. ‘The encampment this year was the best that I have ever attended,’ said one of the men who has been to every meeting of the K. N. G. for the last eight years. ‘Everything was business and we got a great deal of instruction. And we didn’t waste a minute for the officers had every day mapped out in advance and they kept us going. The sanitary features of the camp were much better than ever before, too.’… The soldiers were roused at 4 o’clock this morning to tear up camp and prepare to leave the ground. ‘It was as cold as a December morning,’ said one of the men today, ‘and the fog was so thick that we couldn’t see to get to the tent pegs. I never hated to get up so bad in my life. However, we finally managed to get things loaded and got into Lawrence about 10 o’clock.'”
• “A dispatch from Washington early this morning announced the appointment of Charles C. Seewir, owner and editor of the Lawrence Daily Advertiser, as postmaster for Lawrence, to succeed the present postmaster, Charles Finch. The new postmaster has lived in the city for over forty years and has been a lifelong Democrat…. ‘I have never held a public office before,’ said Mr. Seewir today, ‘and I don’t think that I will make any changes at the office. The present postmaster, Mr. Finch, has been one of the best Lawrence ever had and I don’t know that I could improve on the way he has done things.'”
• “Lone Star is going to have a picnic too, since it seems to be the fashion among rural communities this month, and has announced a big good-time gathering for next Saturday at the Ulrich grove, under the supervision of the Lone Star grange, number 1506. A program including some good speeches, two ball games, a horse shoe pitching contest, music by the Lone Star Band, and other features has been arranged and the committee in charge promises everybody a good time.”
• “In a small automobile accident on Massachusetts street last night, a Ford was bested by a Hupp, and came out with one damaged wheel as a result of the encounter. The collision was unavoidable, the drivers say.”
• “W. B. Brown, superintendent of the department of journalism’s printing plant at the University of Kansas, is minus one bicycle which he believes was stolen from his home at 427 Indiana street. He has reported the matter to the police.”
• “John Daniels, a farmer who lives two and one-half miles northwest of town, has brought a big peach into the Journal-World office. It is an Alberta, perfect in shape and measures 11 inches in circumference.”