From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 22, 1915:

• “Inspectors in the employ of the Street Railway Company some time ago took the count of those crossing the Massachusetts street bridge for two consecutive days, with the following result: Four thousand crossed afoot. Eight hundred passenger carriers, taxis, buses and other vehicles crossed. Six hundred ordinary vehicles, such as wagons, buggies, private autos, etc., crossed. Three hundred sixty drays and other freight carriers, such as flour trucks, crossed.”
• “Frank Williams, a farmer living near Baldwin, received word yesterday that he had lost a valuable horse from lightning. Mr. Williams has been visiting in Lawrence and is only one of several farmers who have had stock killed in the recent storms. Insurance agents say that the toll of death has been unusually heavy during the past spring.”
• “Topeka. – A peace celebration is the most fitting and most patriotic way in which Kansans can observe Independence Day this year, according to a statement issued today by L. T. Hussey, state fire marshal. While he recommends that, as far as possible, a sane Fourth of July be observed, he pointed out ‘it is perhaps too much to expect a complete return to sanity after the free range that has been indulged in in the celebration of the day in years past.’ The statement urges that if explosives are used the municipal authorities should limit their use to public parks and certain hours of the day, being certain also that they are closely supervised by competent persons…. Mr. Hussey urges that the danger of fire may be lessened by the cleaning up of trash and other combustible materials, which may be in the vicinity of celebrations.”
• “Officer Dan Vaughn was back on the police force Sunday night to take the place of Mr. Silverthorn, who was suffering from a sprained wrist. Mr. Vaughn has been employed as a brick mason on the Haskell gymnasium. Mr. Silverthorn was back on the job Sunday, and is ready for business he says. In referring to the case of Frank Spring, the Oklahoma boy who went into the east bottoms Saturday night with a pocketful of money and was arrested drunk and broke some hours later, Mr. Silverthorn remarked that he saw many men and boys in the bottoms every night who had no business there and that he considered it remarkable that more people were not foully dealt with than there were. ‘The bottoms are not as bad as they used to be,’ Mr. Silverthorn continued, ‘but it isn’t safe for a man to select that section of the city as a place for late night strolls.'”
• “After the fullest consultation and reflection Otis Perkins announces that ‘Good Roads Day’ will be postponed until a series of rainless and open days give an appearance of stability to the weather. Then another date will be set, and the event pulled off as quickly as possible after adequate notice can be given to both the townspeople and the country folk.”
• “During the past ten days the Hosford Investment Company has sold seven valuable properties, which bears out the optimistic stand assumed by the real estate dealers for several months past. They have all insisted ever since the opening of spring, that whoever wished to dispose of eligible property during the present summer would find opportunity to do so.”