From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 24, 1915:

• “J. M. Johnson, who represents the Baker Manufacturing company of Springfield, Illinois, is in the city today looking over the ground preparatory to starting a campaign toward selling the board of city commissioners a street sweeper. The machine which the commission went to Independence, Mo., to look at several days ago was one that Mr. Johnson had sold and he is an ardent believer in the superiority of sweepers over flushers. At the present the board is divided on the matter…. ‘While I have both kinds of the street cleaners for sale,’ said Mr. Johnson this morning, ‘I know that the sweeper is much the better proposition for Lawrence. The construction of the brick pavements here is such that the use of a flusher would be a big mistake. The sand and filler between the bricks would be washed out and soon the street paving would be ruined…. A big item in this is the cost of the water used, for flushing requires water and lots of it.’… The board of city commissioners has not yet taken any definite action toward making a purchase and they say that they will look into all sides of the question before they do make the purchase.”
• “That the ground on the north side of the river is the wettest that it has been in many years is the opinion of F. M. Purvis, a north side farmer, who has been acquainted with conditions in this district for a long time. When a man tried to ride across the field on horseback the other day, says Mr. Purvis, the horse mired down so that the rider could hardly get him through. The nature of the soils in this district is such that it has never mired down before that he knows of, Mr. Purvis says, and the excessively wet season is the only reason that it does now.”
• “It is one thing to get a tenant and another to get rid of him and T. E. Griesa has found this out to his sorrow. Mr. Griesa rented a piece of property some time back and after a time became tired of his tenant and discharged him. However, said tenant won’t leave and this afternoon Judge Clark is hearing the case to decide whether the tenant shall stay or go.”
• “The case of Jose Suarez, a Mexican who was arrested at the Union Pacific station by Officer Lige Patchen Wednesday night, with a suit case full of whisky, is held up because the officers at the county jail can’t talk Mexican lingo and Jose can’t talk English…. The county officers want an interpreter. Jailer Ike Johnson says that he thinks Suarez really does know why he is under arrest but that according to law they will have to have an interpreter to explain the details to him. And until that interpreter shows up Jose will have to wait in the county bastile.”
• “Dr. W. D. Matthew, curator of the paleontological collections of the American Museum of Natural History of New York City, will come to Lawrence tomorrow to make a study of the collection of fossils obtained two years ago from northeastern Colorado by a party under the direction of H. T. Martin, assistant curator of paleontology at Dyche museum at the University. The main specimens in the collection to be studied are a series of three-toed horse material collected on the trip and the Patagonian collection which is one of only three collections in America from Patagonia. Dr. Matthew will spend several days at Dyche museum at the University while he visits with Mr. Martin. Dr. Matthew is considered one of the best living authorities on fossil mammals.”
• “Every available automobile will be needed tomorrow to tour the city with the visiting Fraternal Aid Union delegates who will arrive in the morning at 10 o’clock. Every person who can spare an auto for the occasion is asked to report it either to Otto Perkins in advance or at the Santa Fe depot, promptly at 10 o’clock.”