From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 16, 1915:

• “After a stormy session of nearly three hours in which many visitors were heard, the board of city commissioners finally passed the reconstructed milk ordinance as drawn up by City Attorney Thomas Harley, in its special session yesterday afternoon. The new ordinance is a compromise between the one drawn up by the University scientists and the ordinance wished by the dairymen. The tuberculin test, which has caused most of the argument, is optional. All milk not tuberculin-tested must be so labeled…. The milk ordinance has been causing the commissioners trouble for some time and yesterday morning they turned the matter over to City Attorney Harley with instructions to draw up an ordinance that would be as nearly as possible satisfactory to all parties interested.”
• “Lawrence automobile owners will have an opportunity to get their 1915 state automobile licenses after June 20, according to information given out at the county treasurer’s office this morning. There are about 700 cars in Douglas county, the treasurer says, and all will have to have licenses to conform to the state law. Owners must state the name of the car, its engine number, horse power, style (runabout, touring car, etc.) and the year of the car’s model. The license fee is $5.00.”
• “The telephone companies have nearly recovered from the effects of the recent storms and will soon be in good working order again. ‘We have nearly all of the poles blown down and broken off in the recent storm, replaced now,’ said the wire chief of the Home Telephone company this morning. ‘The cost of the damages is hard to estimate and is considered as all in the day’s work. Our service suffered very little as a result of the storm and was never seriously hampered.'”
• “Commissioner of Poor, I. J. Gray, is complaining because he has two insane women at the county farm and has not proper accommodations for their care. “There is no place to send the women,’ said Mr. Gray, ‘and I supposed it is up to me to take care of them as best I can but it does not seem right that the other inmates of the farm should have to be disturbed by the insane who are not proper subjects for the farm.'”
• “The total loss to upland wheat, in the opinion of the farmers, will reach 20 per cent, after allowing for the devastating effects of the Hessian fly, the chinch bug, and the drouth of the early weeks in the spring and latter part of the winter. Singularly enough the damage by the early spring drouth is almost invariably minimized, or forgotten altogether. Yet it is true that thousands of acres of upland wheat came so near dying during the early weeks of the spring that the later rains could not revive it enough to make anything but a skinny yield possible. It simply did not have vitality enough to grow properly when the rains came. It is notoriously true that the bulk of the damage done by the fly and bug has been on the uplands…. The loss sustained by wheat in the valleys is inconsiderable; the profuse rains have put the kibosh on the insects…. Wheat harvest will be started the last of this week, barring rains. Should the weather continue open and cloudless, harvesting will be under full swing by the end of next week.”
• “Playgrounds work in Lawrence will soon be under way and the Playgrounds Association believes that the work is going to be very successful this year. At a recent meeting of the Board of Education seventy-five dollars was allowed as a salary for the chief supervisor, Ray Edwards, and the purchasing of materials. The playgrounds will probably be located at South Park, Pinckney School, New York School, Woodlawn School and other places…. If the plans of Dr. Alice Goetz work out Lawrence will soon have one of the best playgrounds systems in Kansas. Dr. Goetz appeared before the Board of Education at the request of the Playgrounds Association, some time ago, and briefly outlined her plan of child welfare for the summer, in which the university is to co-operate with the city and see to it that Lawrence kiddies are furnished with clean, instructive amusement this summer and plenty of it.”