From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 27, 1915:

• “Bad whisky, a motorcycle, two police characters, and a young farmer who lives south of Lawrence, all figured in a police court case this morning which netted the city a total of $22.50 and caused the penitent young countryman to spend a night in jail while his wife and family stayed at home and wondered what had become of him. The farmer came into town yesterday on his motorcycle with ten dollars and a good reputation and went home this morning after spending a night behind the bars and sans the ten dollars and his watch. The watch, however, will be returned as soon as the farmer brings in the $6.50 which was the amount of his fine including costs. The rural gentleman, fresh in town after weeks on the farm, was hunting diversion so when he fell in with Chris Eberhard and Chas. McClennon and found that they could get some whisky he went with them and on the spree that followed he did some fancy motorcycle riding and woke up in jail this morning with a headache. McClennon was fined $6.50 including costs, Eberhardt $9.50 including costs, and the farmer, whose name the police withheld out of consideration for his family, $6.50 including costs.”
• “Three big motor cars laden with the lightest and newest of camping equipment left this morning for Colorado. The cars were driven by J. M. Boyd, W. B. Wilcox, and E. E. Burke and the party, consisting of the three men and their wives will spend several weeks touring in Colorado where they will visit most of the summer resorts. ‘We will follow the Santa Fe trail most of the way,’ said Mr. Boyd this morning, ‘and we hope to be able to camp out most of the time. We have folding tents, folding cots and everything else that can be packed into the smallest amount of room in the way of camping equipment.’ Mr. Boyd says that the party does not expect to run into a great deal of bad road in Kansas, but if they do they will write back and tell the other motorists who intend to leave later, all about where the bad stretches are so that they can avoid them.”
• “Should the city commissioners adopt a street lighting plan submitted by the Lawrence Light and Power Company this morning, Lawrence may soon be one of the best lighted cities in the state. A proposition was sent to the commission at their regular meeting this morning for the installation for a white way along Massachusetts street which will utilize the trolley poles of the company’s street car system as light poles by attaching brackets to them for the lamps. The company recently placed several of the lights in the 700 block on Massachusetts street as samples of what the white way would be like and many merchants have expressed satisfaction as to the plan.”
• “A report of Milk Inspector Holyfield, given to the City Commissioners this morning, shows that only one dairy of all those inspected so far, is clean enough to be rated Class A and that conditions in many of the dairies are such that the milk is probably not fit for use. However, Mr. Holyfield says, the majority of the dairymen are handicapped by the wet season which makes cleanliness difficult. ‘The men all seem willing to clean up and are anxious to comply with the city’s ordinance.'”
• “The first twilight league games will be played tonight, one on the Haskell diamond between the Y. M. C. A. and the Indian team, and the other at the Woodland Park between the Odd Sox and a team of old stars captained by ‘Lou’ Hapshfield.”
• “Washington, D. C. — Insurance against damage to property in Germany by air craft is one of the latest developments of the war. The American consul general at Dresden Saxony, reporting to the department of commerce, said that a demand for insurance against bombs had been created by aeroplane attacks upon German cities near the battle lines. As a result, a German insurance company has established what the consul says may properly be called aerial insurance.”