From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 13, 1915:

• “During the past seven months a total of not fewer than 3,500 horses for cavalry and artillery service have been bought by Lawrence dealers — the Sparks brothers, R. S. Robertson and Eugene Gallagher — for the United States, British and French governments. Aside from 150 animals bought by Sparks brothers to fill a special contract with the United States government, these horses averaged about $165 per head…. All these federal government horses are supposed to be practically perfect in every detail…. Only brown, black and sorrel horses are bought by the government for officers’ mounts. All other colors are barred, and so also are conspicuous markings with the exception of a star, or narrow stripe in the face. White legs are in the barred class, or white splotches. Splotches of any kind, in fact, are barred. Aside from the colorings mentioned, a dapple might be bought provided the dapple is not conspicuous, and the horse is really an extra fine animal….In every instance, a pedigreed horse, other conditions being equal, has the preference, but a buyer or inspector seldom inquires as to pedigree. A pedigree that is not obvious to the experienced judge of horses for military purposes is not of much account anyway.”
• “The board of administration of the University has made itself solid with the boys and girls of Lawrence by making arrangements to have Potter Lake kept open during the six weeks of summer school…. The board instructed Manager Hamilton to draw up rules governing the use of the lake and these rules are now being printed. To those not enrolled at the University a fee of one dollar will be charged…. The water is in finer condition than ever before and two men will be employed, Howard Laslett and Adrian Lindsay, both good swimmers and practical athletes, Lindsay being half back on the Varsity eleven. One of these men will serve as a guard and the other as an instructor…. Manager Hamilton would like to rope off a certain part of the lake so it would be safe for wading for small children, and he would also like a sand beach fifty feet wide and twenty feet deep, if the money could be obtained to do the work.”
• “When the funeral bells softly tolled last November and the friends of the Progressive party in Kansas quietly laid it to rest in that growing graveyard of political hopes, Miss Helen N. Eacker, of Lawrence, swore as much of an oath as it would be proper for a Christian, but defeated, candidate to swear, that never again would she enter politics. That was about seven months ago and like all sorrows the memory of it had so far departed that this morning the train for the east bore Miss Eacker on her way to Ithaca, New York, where she will lead the hosts of woman’s suffrage in its battle until the fall elections…. Miss Eacker was executive secretary, with headquarters at Topeka, during the campaign for fall suffrage in Kansas, and as a reward for her good work was made the Progressive candidate for state auditor last year, meeting defeat with her party at the polls last November.”