From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 18, 1915:

• “Topeka. — Flood conditions similar to those of last week will prevail along the Kansas river if further rains fall in the upper reaches in the next 24 hours. With the exception of the Smoky Hill all the tributary streams were out of their banks today and overflowing bottom land…. The Kaw at Wamego rose three feet and is still rising steadily today. The weather observer asserted that the crest of the new rise would reach here within 24 hours and would not exceed six feet unless further rain fell…. Five members of the family of John Burgers, a farmer near Onaga, in Pottawatomie county, were killed and two injured in a tornado which swept the county early today. The same report to the Union Pacific railway asserted stock was killed and much property damage was done.”
• “Last Monday night E. C. Weibel left a horse hitched by a halter to a wagon on the Cady place where he was putting up hay. Tuesday morning the horse was gone. As the horse had just been bought from Jack Kelsey, young Weibel thought perhaps it had returned to its former home, but no trace of it has been found. Mr. Weibel is a member of Grant township C. P. A. and if the horse has been stolen it will probably mean a penitentiary sentence for the thief.”
• “A plan is under way in the Merchants’ Association to have Thursday afternoon as a weekly closing time during July and August for the business houses of the city and will be brought up for discussion at the Association’s next meeting on Tuesday. The business places will close at 12:30 on Thursday afternoon for the rest of the day. ‘This plan is used in many of the leading Kansas towns,’ said Secretary Harry Sparks of the Merchants’ Association today, ‘and I see no reason why Lawrence should be behind the other live Kansas municipalities. It will give the clerks a chance to have a little recreation during the vacation season and business is so slack at this season that I cannot see where the merchant will lose anything.'”
• “Compilations made by the Logan Grain company of Kansas City since the first of June on the probable yield of wheat in Kansas, show that the yield for Douglas county will be good and that the average is somewhat larger than usual. According to the report the sown acreage in Douglas county was 37,457 acres…. The average yield per acre is figured by the experts to be about nineteen bushels…. The general impression among local growers is that the upland wheat will yield better than that in the lowlands as the grain in low ground has been damaged by the heavy rains. However, Will Schaake and John Wise, both of whom have wheat in the bottoms, have a good stand and will probably harvest a good crop. John Flory who lives near Lone Star, and Amel Schmidt, four miles south of Eudora, have large acreages on the upland which is some of the best wheat in the county according to observers.”