From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 18, 1915:

• “Secretary Boltz of the Y. M. C. A. is of the opinion that there should be a board of censorship not only over moving pictures, but over the advertisements which appear in the magazines placed in public libraries at which young people have access. Every month it is necessary for the Y. M. C. A. secretaries to go through the magazines and remove all cigarette and tobacco advertising. This matter was taken up at the state Y. M. C. A. meeting and it is likely that in the near future some concerted effort on the part of the Y. M. C. A. and the public libraries will result. It is the opinion of Secretary Boltz that if the libraries and the Y. M. C. A.’s of the country would declare against such advertising that it would in a great measure remedy the evil.”
• “Mrs. Ada Clark, who was recently found guilty of selling intoxicating liquor and has been in the city jail since her trial, was released this morning on parole. Mrs. Clark has an opportunity to get employment and earn her living honestly and the officials thought best to have her working and earning her living than to have her in the city jail doing nothing. The officers will have her under their care and any time she violates her parole she will be re-taken and turned over to the county officials.”
• “Samples of bricks of all kinds and descriptions are on exhibition in the office of the superintendent of the city schools. These samples have been submitted by various firms who desire to secure the contract to furnish the face bricks for the new school buildings. Superintendent Smith says that if many more bricks are submitted it will not be necessary to buy at all.”
• “Announcement was made in Topeka today that it was probable Prof. F. W. Blackmar, Dean of the Graduate School of the State University, would be the next warden of the state penitentiary. Governor Capper expressed himself as being very anxious that Prof. Blackmar be placed at the head of that institution…. Prof. Blackmar has on different occasions investigated the state penitentiary and has also been through the penal institutions of other states so that he is well acquainted with the situation and will know how to start the improvements that have been planned for the Kansas penitentiary. He has filed elaborate reports on the needs of the institution in order to make it the model prison which it once was. It is the intention to make it the best institution in the United States.”
• “Charles W. Johnson, proprietor of a restaurant in North Lawrence, visited Kansas City with rather disastrous financial results according to his statements. Mr. Johnson declares that while in the city someone purloined his pocketbook which contained several hundred dollars.”