From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 7, 1915:

• “The industries of Lawrence in which women are employed underwent some inspections by the state factory inspectors last week. The inspectors are working under the direction of the Welfare Industrial Commission created by the last legislature, which is accumulating statistics on the hours and wages of women workers. In the Lawrence establishment slips were passed around among the employes with questions which they were requested to answer. These have a bearing on whether the wage paid is a living one and the condition of the worker, whether living at home or self-supporting. A great deal of information of this sort will have to be gathered before the commission is in a position to make any recommendations as to hours and wage scales. In general but little fault was found by the state inspectors with the conditions under which women and girls work in the Lawrence industrial establishments.”
• “Mrs. Harry Shaw of Jefferson Island, Mont., has sent her mother, Mrs. Streater of Connecticut street, some samples of the potatoes her husband is raising in Montana. One of the potatoes sent weighed three and a third pounds. Mrs. Shaw wrote that they raised two carloads that were in the class of the specimens she sent, and twenty carloads of smaller potatoes.”
• “The fact that some University of Kansas students smoke cigarettes is a serious menace to the success of his child welfare work, Prof. W. A. McKeever stated today, in making an appeal that the students cut out the cigarettes. ‘When I go out on a child welfare campaign and attempt to outline some methods for the prevention of the youthful vice of cigarette smoking, the people turn upon me with the charge that this evil is most common among the students of the great University of Kansas. This charge is difficult to meet and it is often most embarrassing,’ Dr. McKeever said.”
• “Work on the collection of the money for the senior memorial of the class of 1916 at the University is proceeding slowly and unless the fourth year students are quicker in paying their dues the managers of the memorial committee say that their plans may undergo some radical changes. The class has not yet decided what its memorial to the University shall be, but it is anxious to leave something that will be worthy of the largest class that ever graduated from K. U. Last year’s senior class donated the big stone bulletin board at the end of Oread avenue near the Law building.”
• “A meeting of the central committee in charge of boy scout work in Lawrence this week discussed several new lines of activity which the boy scouts of the town will undertake. Among them, it is likely that the scout troops of the town will offer their services to the charitable organizations of the town for the distribution of presents and supplies and the numerous errands that must be run in connection with this work at Christmas time. Service of this sort is right in line with the scout teachings and the boys may get some practical experience in the coming holidays.”
• “The county jail now has twenty-five boarders and two of them are getting plenty of fresh air and exercise by working on the country roads. Warden Tynan, of the Colorado penitentiary, who lectured recently at the University, isn’t the only man who believes in out-door work and the honor system as a means of reforming criminals, for the authorities in Douglas county have been using the plan for some time. Road overseers say that the prisoners are among the best men that they have at work on the roads and that they save the county hundreds of dollars every year.”
• “Rough playing cost the high school sophomores their basketball game yesterday afternoon with the seniors in the Y. M. C. A. The seniors won by a score of 24 to 15. Two of the sophomores were put out of the game because of personal fouls of which thirteen were scored by the entire team. This was an unusually large number and sufficient to cause a defeat for any team.”