From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Feb. 22, 1915:

• “The causes and the cures for poverty in the individual group life were outlined by Prof. Burgiss in his lecture before the People’s Forum yesterday afternoon in the Y. M. C. A. auditorium. Feeblemindedness, laziness, ignorance, drink, vice and immorality were given as the reasons for the existence of poverty from the individual standpoint. The suggested cures were segregation of the feebleminded, compulsory work for the lazy, industrial education for the ignorant, prohibition and temperance for the slaves to drink and scientifically directed recreation was proposed as a remedy for vice and immorality. In outlining the social and economic causes for poverty, unwise giving was named as the chief cause. According to Prof. Burgiss this exists to a large extent everywhere, and can only be checked by organized charities. Other reasons for poverty suggested were sickness and accident, to be counteracted by social insurance; long hours and low wages to be remedied by the passing of the minimum wage law.”
• “A gas leak on Kentucky street at Tenth street last night caused no little excitement when some one in going past lighted a cigar and threw the match toward the curbing. The gas was escaping through the ground over a surface of about four feet square and blazed up about two feet high. The gas burned for about two hours before it was extinguished.”
• “Eli Hunter, aged 65 years, died yesterday at 2 o’clock at the Swedish hospital in Kansas City, where he underwent an operation Thursday. Mr. Hunger was born at Clearfield, Pennsylvania. He came to Lawrence in 1867. For many years previous to his establishing a grocery business in Lawrence, Mr. Hunger was a piano salesman and was well known throughout this section of the country.”
• “The fire department in their meeting Saturday night voted to purchase a Ford car for the fire chief. Chief Reinisch has always had a horse to drive but since the horse was killed at Haskell last Sunday night it has been necessary to keep all of the horses at the station and the chief has had no way to get to the fires when he happens to be out at work when the alarm is turned in. The new car will be placed in the fire department late this afternoon. With the installation of the new fire truck which will be shipped to Lawrence about the 24th of the month, the fire department of Lawrence will be entirely motor. They will have a chief’s car, a chemical truck and a combination hose and ladder truck. One of the teams will be sold as soon as the new truck arrives.”
• “In celebration of the anniversary of Washington’s birthday the court house was closed today and the officers enjoyed a day’s holiday from their work in looking after the county’s business.”