From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 4, 1915:

• “Commencement week at Haskell has been set for the week beginning June 13 and will end on Thursday evening, June 17. The week has been filled with the very best things and will be a most interesting occasion for the students of the school and the people of the town. A number of athletic events will fill a part of the program at different times during the week. It is the plan to have some athletic event every afternoon. The band will play an important part in the week’s program…. The graduation exercises will be held on Thursday evening. The Institute has a large class this year and students graduating from all of the departments of the school are members of the class.”
• “Kansas University students for the year 1914-15 will soon be a thing of the past at the rate the students have been leaving for the past two days. A large percentage of the students have already left Lawrence for their homes in the different parts of the state. The summer school students have not begun to come yet and Lawrence will be studentless for a few days with the exception of the members of the Senior Class and the few who remain for commencement. By far the larger part of the student body have already gone.”
• “High school commencement which will be held at the Bowersock theater will mark the close of one of the most successful years the High school has ever had. The class which will graduate is one of the largest that has ever been graduated from the school. The class which will leave the school will leave accomplishments possibly never reached by other classes and have set examples for other classes, which may equal and excel this class by having had their experience and profited by it.”
• “On a Rock Island freight that went through Lawrence last night while a number of the Lawrence people were waiting at the depot it was estimated by many who were there that there were five hundred men on the train bound for the harvest fields. The Rock Island line is permitting the men to ride to the harvest fields without molestation. They are taking the men out there so they will get some of the money that is to be had and the farmers will have sufficient help to take care of the immense wheat crop that is expected this year. One man who saw the train said that he would not believe that there would be as many ‘boes’ on a train unless he had seen it himself. Every available space on the train was occupied by as many men as could crowd themselves into the space.”
• “In the adjourned session of the City Commissioners yesterday afternoon the matter of the new road to the cemetery was taken up for discussion and it was decided that in order to make the road better and more permanent that a strip of concrete three feet wide should be placed on each side of the present concrete instead of placing macadam there as was previously intended. This work will be done as soon as possible…. The appointment of a bridge watchman was taken up and W. T. Griffiths of the north side was appointed to fill this position in watching the traffic over the bridge and to keep watch of the condition of the bridge and report to the officials anything that is not as it should be. The first reading of the Milk ordinance was taken up and the various points of the ordinance were discussed at some length. No action was taken on the ordinance.”
• “A friendly dispute in the score of the finals of the Golf Tournament of the Oread Golf Club has caused a tie in the score for the winner of the tournament…. The dispute that has arisen will be decided by Tom Bendelow, Spalding’s golf expert. The matter will be laid before him and his reply is expected at an early date. The decision of the expert will determine the winner of the tournament.”
• “The Boy Scouts of the First Presbyterian Church will put on a novel program at the church tonight. It will be a demonstration of camp life, and twenty boys will take part. The proceeds at 10 cents admission will go toward paying the expenses of the summer camp. There will be a camp pitched, with dormitory and cook tent, a meal will be cooked and eaten, and there will be an instance of first aid, but whether the patient is to be sunstruck, frost-bitten, drowned, poisoned, shot, stabbed, or merely be a victim of overeating, is not stated; there will be signaling by night and by day, and fire will be made by friction of wood upon wood. Taps will be sounded at the conclusion.”