From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 15, 1915:

• “A very interesting lecture was given by Mrs. Lillian Mitchner, president of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union at the Congregational church last night…. Mrs. Mitchner says that the Women’s Christian Temperance Union is nothing more or less than the mothers organized to save their sons and to take the great temptation from them, so that it will be easier for them to resist the temptation. ‘Girls are not naturally better than the boys,’ said Mrs. Mitchner. ‘It is only the way they are brought up that makes them as they are. If the boys were as carefully looked after as the girls are, they would be just as good. The girls are almost constantly in the mother’s care and the boys are permitted to run more at large with the explanation that they are able to care for themselves.’ Mrs. Mitchner says that the United States will have national prohibition in eight years. It is no longer an uncertain quantity but is assured. The general progressive movement of the nation is towards prohibition and she expressed no doubt that it will become one of the greatest political issues in the coming campaigns.”
• “The Western University Band from Quindaro, Kansas, stopped in Lawrence this morning in their tour of the state advertising the University. They have just been to Topeka where they played before the legislature yesterday…. Several numbers were played on the streets of Lawrence this morning and attracted a great crowd of the business people who dropped business for a few minutes to hear the band. The people of Lawrence were very much surprised at the visit paid by the Band as they had sent no word that they would appear in Lawrence. The band played well and made a very attractive appearance in their exclusive uniforms…. Until the present time the Western University was a stranger to most of the people of Lawrence, but will be no more for the band has aroused the interest of the people in the school.”
• “Mrs. W. J. Jetker, formerly a resident of Lawrence, is now at Cresline, Nevada, where she is still telegraph operator for the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Railroad Company. She reports that everything is going nicely with William, Jr. to help her on the ranch. They are taking up a homestead which is near the station. They report that the climate is the very best and they like it very much in Nevada. The soil is a very good quality, grazing for the cattle is abundant. But for all this they say that dear old Kansas cannot be forgotten.”
• “Alleging that she had treated him with cruelty Matthew J. Fortner filed suit yesterday in district court for divorce from Helen Fortner, his wife. They were married in 1912 in Eudora and separated in August, 1914. The plaintiff states in his petition that not only did his wife beat him with her fists but used exceedingly harsh language and also called him names.”