From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 3, 1915:

• “J. E. Fields returned last night from Norton, Kan., where he has been several days on business. He reports that the farmers in that part of the state are well pleased with the prospect for a large crop this year. The rains have only delayed the planting of the corn, but have done no damage to the wheat crop. The wheat in that part of the country was not damaged by the chinch bugs and they can see no reason why they should not break the record for production. A large number of men will be needed to harvest the immense crop.”
• “A visit to Pinckney school and inspection of the handiwork of the seven grades taught there is an inspiration and a great diversion, and as such immediately leads to regrets because the observer has let the fall, winter and spring months glide by without visiting the school as frequently as he should…. It is extremely doubtful that there is in the state a school showing better averages of talent and discipline for the grades compared.”
• “The city commissioners are holding a special session for the consideration of the new milk ordinance as proposed since the meeting of the dairymen with the commissioners. The ordinance has been remodeled and some of the points included in the first ordinance have been omitted.”
• “The county treasurer reports that the taxes are not coming in very fast at this time. There are possibly two reasons why the payments are not being made. One is that many of the people are too busy at this time of year to take time from their work until it is absolutely necessary and another is that they yet have about a month’s time in which to get the payments made. About the fifteenth of the month the payments will begin to come more rapidly.”
• “It is expected that the new Country Club House will be ready for occupancy before the first of August. The stucco facing over the entire exterior is not yet begun. Lathing has just begun, and is to be followed by the plastering and painting.”
• “Secretary H. B. Sparks of the Merchants’ Association has correspondence on his desk revealing the purpose of one of the largest manufacturing companies in the middle west that turns out incubators and brooders to change its location. The high standing of the company, and the good quality of its output are matters of common knowledge in business circles and among poultry raisers, and if the company could be gotten to come to Lawrence on reasonable terms it would be a splendid acquisition to our line of industries.”
• “G. H. Hoffer of Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, a horseshoer and farrier, is here looking for employment. He resided in Lawrence for six months about twenty years ago, returning east because of the illness of his father, which proved to be long-lasting. Ultimately he became a fixture there, but has always wished to return west.”