From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 16, 1915:

• “As the Kansas river is nominally navigable it is necessary to take up the matter of the construction of a bridge over it with the War Department of the United States. County Attorney J. S. Amick is looking after this matter and has it before the department at the present time. He went to Topeka today to investigate certain matters in regard to the construction of the bridge with the State Utilities Commission.”
• “Petition for a welfare officer for Lawrence was made to the city commissioners this morning in their meeting, by a committee from the People’s Forum…. A person who understands the sanitary conditions of the city and how they can be remedied will probably be chosen if the commissioners see fit to employ such an officer.”
• “‘Many requests come to my office for opportunities to work,’ says Poor Commissioner I. J. Gray. ‘On the other hand many people ask me to help them find help that is reliable and honest. It seems to be that we might be able to get together on the proposition and when the people have or hear of places to work let me know their needs.’ Mr. Gray is of the opinion that in this manner much good could be done to those needy of work as well as those needing help.”
• “The local high school basket ball team will come up against one of the hardest schedules in the next two weeks that they have had in recent years. On next Friday night they will meet the Paola bunch in the Manual gym and the following night they will play the Kansas City, Kansas, team at Kansas City. The following week they will go to Baldwin, where they have entered in district tournament and on Saturday, the next day, they have a game with Iola on the local court.”
• “For the purpose of instructing the Union Pacific employees in matters relative to ‘first aid to the injured,’ the American Red Cross car was in Lawrence last night. Dr. Lipscomb, who is in charge of the work west of the Mississippi, told the employees how to treat any case that might arise in a manner that would minimize the serious results that often unnecessarily arise from minor railroad accidents. The meeting was held in the Union Pacific station and was attended by about thirty-five employees from Lawrence, Linwood and Perry.”
• “It has been somewhat of an embarrassment to Geo. A. Snow, the cleaner in the 1000 block on Mass. Street, to have a man named Geo. Snow arrested for being troublesome and having the account published in the papers. There are two men in Lawrence bearing the name George Snow and it’s the other fellow who was arrested.”