From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 31, 1915:

• “The seismograph at the University has been moved from its former quarters in Fraser Hall to new quarters in Blake Hall. A cement block has been built in the floor of the building which connects the seismograph with the solid Oread limestone rock below. The machine is in better place here due to the fact that it is easier for the men in charge of it to keep in touch with it. If the new location proves satisfactory to the observers as the best place that can be obtained for the machine it will be left there and a place for the keeping of the apparatus that goes with it will be arranged. Correct time is received each day by the wireless and the record of the machine is taken by this.”
• “At a meeting of the township board of Grant township today at the home of Paul Laptad, north of town, the board granted a petition circulated by Mr. Rowe and signed by most of the farmers of the district, for drainage of the land under water in the township. The drainage ditches will be across the farms of Alfred Heck, Peter Stein and Jacob Hammig, and according to residents of the township these men are showing a large amount of public spirit by allowing their land to be ditched that the farms of others may be released from water. At present there is from four to six hundred acres inundated with surface water which has flowed after each of the heavy rains and has had no way to escape.”
• “Topeka. — Motion pictures are to be used to fight disease in Kansas during the coming fall and winter, according to the announcement made from the office of Dr. S. J. Crumbine, secretary of the state board of health. It was asserted that pictures showing the sources of typhoid fever, tuberculosis, small pox, measles, and diphtheria, will be exhibited in every county. Proper personal hygiene and preventative methods also will be portrayed.”
• “Associated Press dispatches today are carrying a description of the new bridge to be built across the Kaw to the entire service of the association in Kansas and this territory. The fact that the bridge is causing great interest is amply demonstrated when the great news gathering association will send the news out broadcast to the people of this section of the United States.”
• “Forest Savage lies very ill at his home, 1424 Connecticut street. Mr. Savage is one of the best known among the old settlers of Lawrence. He came here during the border war, in which he took part, and has the distinction of being the leader of the first band in Lawrence. He is an old ex-Union soldier, and is 87 years old.”