From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 23, 1915:

• “Work on the city’s new paving on both the east and west sides of town is going on rapidly since the weather has cleared and made working conditions good. The widening of the cemetery road, which was held up for some time by the rainy weather, is well underway and will be finished soon. Work on the west side will requires several days before completion. The country roads are gradually worked into shape and the township and county officers have been keeping men at work steadily since the weather has cleared…. Citizens of Grant township have repaired the road near the Pine farm which was completely cut in two by the recent flood on the north side when the waters from Mud Creek broke in behind the dikes, and the way to Tonganoxie will soon be passable again. The unpaved streets in the western part of the city are in bad shape and are very rough and many of them upgrown with weeds. Sixth street, west of Mississippi, is too rough for automobiles and is badly grown up with weeds. North and south streets near the city limits are badly washed and can hardly be crossed by wagons. These roads got the full benefit of the water which drained from the hillsides in this vicinity and will require a lot of grading before they are passable…. While the city was passing its weed ordinance it should have made some provision for the cutting of the pests on its own property, one man in this district says, and he is in favor of seeing something done to clean up these streets right away.”
• “Recently, before the subsidence of the rains, one of the worst strips of road anywhere in this region is said to have been near Fall Leaf, about 12 miles east, in Leavenworth county. A Standard Oil wagon mired down there and was not dug out for a week. Other vehicles in every stage of disintegration were strung along the highway for considerable distance.”
• “During a heavy gale about a week ago a frame silo on F. W. Pratt’s farm near Vinland blew down and was pretty badly wrecked. It was practically new, and supposed to be solidly built. Undoubtedly a small tornado hit it. It was eighteen feet in diameter and thirty-six feet in height.”
• “C. R. Pulley, a laborer of the department of buildings and grounds at the University, had both of his legs wrenched yesterday afternoon about 5 o’clock when one wall of a ditch seven feet in depth in which he was working caved in on him putting him beneath several hundred pounds of rain soaked clay. When the old steps of the north entrance on the west side of Fraser hall were taken out and the new ones put in the sewer connections were changed so that there would be no danger from a clogging up of the pipes in the future. To do this it was necessary to construct a new line of pipe for about fifty feet…. Several laborers who were employed on the works began the work of rescuing Mr. Pulley at once and within a few minutes he was released from the weight of the earth.”