From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Dec. 10, 1915:

• “The 7-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Moore of Linwood was given a temporary respite in an almost phenomenal way last night. The little fellow had membraneous croup and was succumbing so rapidly that Dr. Van Noy called a surgeon from Lawrence. In just thirty-five minutes the surgeon was on the job, but the child was dying and in one minute more had stopped his fruitless efforts to get breath into the little body. With no preparation and with only a kerosene lamp held and with the assistance of the attending physician the surgeon quickly opened the windpipe and inserted a tube. By artificial respiration breathing was restored and the pulse and color came back. The patient is comfortable today but not yet out of danger.”
• “By taking possession of the handballs, basket balls, and footballs that the boys of Woodlawn school are so unfortunate as to allow to fall on his property, Will Drake … has created a situation with which the board of education was obliged to take cognisance of at its monthly meeting last night. It is said by the teachers of the school that the boys have been threatened with violence should they attempt to rescue their property. A member of the board of education stated in the board meeting last night that Drake had gone so far as to insult and abuse a young lady teaching in the Woodlawn school. Drake stated to both a member of the police force and a member of the board who sought to regain the property of the school, that they would get it only after lawsuit. The unusual case has been referred to the city attorney and the chief of police with a request for action.”
• “The grading of the roadbed on Locust street for the interurban line has been completed. It is now in readiness for the laying of the track. The whistle of the locomotive at the railhead east of town is now a familiar sound to North Lawrence and the rails will be laid to the city limits tomorrow night, workmen confidently asserted today.”
• “Alleging that he was totally disabled for nine months and partially incapacitated for life by an accident while employed as an operator of a corrugating machine in the Bowersock paper mill, A. J. Vogler filed suit yesterday in the district court against J. D. Bowersock for personal damages amounting to $2,996. He claims that the machine was not properly equipped to prevent the accident, the catching of his fingers in the rollers of the machine. The suit is brought under the provisions of the workmen’s compensation act.”
• “Joe Dunkel went hunting with marked success one day this week and he was host at a rabbit roast which the members of the First Regiment band attended at the band quarters last night. The bandmen had fifteen of the bunnies roasted at a restaurant nearby and the feast was a pleasant one for all of them. Their only regret was that they were able to get away with only fifteen of the seventy-five Dunkel had bagged on his hunting expedition.”