From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 10, 1915:

• “Great preparations are being made by the officers of the Salvation Army for the annual Mothers and Children’s picnic which will be held soon for the poor mothers and children of the town. This picnic is an annual affair and has been a great success in past years. It is not a picnic for the Salvation Army Sunday school but an inter-denominational picnic for every deserving mother and her children…. The plan of the Salvation Army is to raise a mile of pennies to meet the expenses of this picnic. There are sixteen pennies to a foot and only about 206 feet have been raised so far toward the picnic. Kettles will be placed on the street corners on Saturdays and the people will be given an opportunity to give to help those who have to work all of the time to thoroughly enjoy one day in the free open air and an outing from their daily routine…. It is the plan of Ensign Houlet under whose management the picnic will be held to have conveyances to take the mothers to the picnic grounds. This has been the custom in the past years and large numbers of the people who do not have an opportunity to enjoy an outing take advantage of the Salvation Army picnic for the day from their work. The picnic is given without expense to them.”
• “With the presentation of diplomas at Woodland Park Saturday will be graduated from the eighth grade into eligibility for entrance into the High schools a class of 117 pupils from the rural schools of Douglas county. It is the opinion of County Superintendent C. R. Hawley that a more promising group of youngsters of the same ages was never gotten together in the state. The class is the largest in fifteen years, to Mr. Hawley’s knowledge, with the probability that it is the largest in the history of the rural schools of the county…. Superintendent Hawley is confident that if the weather is favorable there will be a large turnout of the general public at woodland Park Saturday. Fully a thousand attended the exercises there last year.”
• “Kansas City. – The Standard Oil Company today announced a reduction of 1 cent in the price of gasoline. The new price is 8.8 cents a gallon. The reduction is effective throughout the United States. Last June gasoline sold for 12 cents a gallon. Since then the company has made several reductions.”
• “County Attorney J. S. Amick has secured the plans and suggestions for change for the Kansas river bridge at Eudora and has placed the plans in the hands of Y. A. Rice at the university for the necessary change. The plans will be changed and submitted again to Mr. Strickler for his approval and the plans will be offered for the bids on the repair work. This will be done as soon as possible so that the bridge may be again placed in shape for general use. It has not been in general use for some time on account of not being safe for heavy loads.”