From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 26, 1915:

• “A protest against the playing of the Kansas-Missouri football game on Thanksgiving Day has been made to the president of the University of Missouri and to the chancellor of the University of Kansas by the ministers of six protestant churches of Columbia, Missouri. The game this year will be played in Columbia. The ministers say the Christian people of Kansas and Missouri are opposed to the playing of the game on the national holiday. They say that if the game was to be played in a large city there would be little reason for protesting against the playing of the game on Thanksgiving Day as it would detract little, if any, from the higher and finer things that come with that day, but in the smaller cities in which the game is now played the excitement of the game dominates the whole community for several days…. ‘The sentiment of the Christian people of Columbia is unmistakably opposed to the playing of the Missouri-Kansas game on Thanksgiving Day,’ says the Rev. T. W. Young, pastor of the First Baptist Church, of Columbia. ‘I am quite sure that the playing of the game on that day is a violation of the religious associations of the day, and is a contributing factor in the desecration of the day. The colleges of the East have already abandoned the playing of ball games on Thanksgiving Day…. It seems to be a backward stop for the middle west to inaugurate ball games on this day. It is more and more difficult to keep properly before the people the supreme importance of the moral and spiritual development. I think our great schools should help rather than hinder in this line of development of life.’… The ministers say that they know of no objection to the playing of the game on the Saturday preceding Thanksgiving Day.”
• “Much more of the better class of theatricals will be presented at the Bowersock the coming season than last, mainly because bettering business conditions the country over have given stability to the profession and encouragement to its brightest lights, an unusual number of whom are coming into this circuit. The lassitude among theatrical managers so noticeable a year ago was almost wholly due to the shock to all kinds of legitimate business by the first months of the European war. The principal booking and managerial concerns are in New York, and anything that directly affects them either adversely or favorably is felt to the extremities of the routes…. Things seem to be normal in the theatrical world now, for some time past, and to be most promising for the months to come. The agencies are booking attractions without apparent reluctance, although cautiously, and promise more.
• “With the return of fair weather and the drying of the country Lawrence boys who have the bicycle mania are beginning to take country trips once more. Will Derstler, who has the proud distinction of being one of the two only elevator boys in the city, together with Merle Galbraith, Otto Galbraith and Ernie Geiler, pedaled to Eudora yesterday. The boys say that the roads were in good condition with the exception of a few mud holes and had been recently dragged so that they were smooth…. R. M. Morrison spent Saturday in traveling over the county on business and says that he had to travel with horse and buggy on account of the country roads. However, workmen are at work on the highways now, Mr. Morrison says, and where the roads have been dragged they are in good condition…. On the north roads travelers say that some of the mud holes seem to be without bottom. Workmen have covered the holes with branches and have placed dry earth on the branches and rolled the whole mass down, but the water rises up through and soon the mire is as bad as ever.”
• “The Friends last Saturday sold the old church at the intersection of Tenth and Kentucky which they have owned for a good many years, buying it of the Christians, who had bought it of the Universalists, who built it many years ago. Mr. Smith will remodel it and convert it into a garage. The Friends used this building after buying it from the Christians for a place of worship until they arranged with the general conference of their church to occupy the church building in Delaware street for an indefinite length of time. That put the older building on the market.”
• “The Y. M. C. A. employment bureau has been very busy during the past few days getting jobs for high school boys, both out in the country and in town. The jobs range all the way from washing windows and mowing yards to shocking wheat in the country.”