From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 24, 1915:

• “Up to the present time during the fiscal year for the issuing of automobile licenses which ends July 1, County Treasurer C. M. Pearcy has issued 705 licenses for cars in Douglas county, an increase of approximately fifty per cent over year ending July 1, 1914. ‘This probably does not include all the machines in the county, either,’ said Mr. Pearcy this morning, ‘for several people have purchased machines in the last few weeks and have not taken out licenses.’… In 1914 only 469 auto licenses were issued to car owners and thus, if the possession of the gasoline buggies can be taken as an index to prosperity, it seems that the citizens of Douglas county must be far from want…. The number of motorcycle licenses has decreased by one. Last year the office licensed 100 motorcycles at $2.50 each, but this year the number fell to ninety-nine. ‘I do not believe that this necessarily means that the number of pop pops in the county has decreased,’ Mr. Pearcy said, ‘but rather that a number are running about without licenses…. There are a lot of motorcycles sold in Lawrence and it seems peculiar that the number owned should decrease.'”
• “The river rose slowly last night and this morning but did not reach a point near the high water mark of last Sunday as many people had predicted it would. When asked about the condition of the Kaw today, officials of the Bowersock milling company, who keep close track of the high waters, said: ‘Not high enough to be interesting and not likely to be unless there should be heavy rains along the Kaw watershed today.’… A great quantity of driftwood came down the river last night and added to the already heavy drifts on the west side of the piers of the Massachusetts street bridge…. Today the men are busy with pike poles and ropes trying to clear the drift away by pushing the logs loose and pulling them out with ropes.”
• “The terribly mangled body of an unidentified man was found by the crew of Rock Island passenger train number 24, at about 6:30 o’clock this morning on the Union Pacific tracks one-half mile this side of Midland. The man was apparently about 35 years old, smooth shaven, and dressed in a worn dark suit…. A card in his pocket bore the name, C. W. Norris, 1012 Reservoir street, Kansas City, Missouri. In other pockets he carried a safety razor, a cake of soap, twenty cents in money, three fishhooks, and some matches…. The authorities think that the man was beating his way back to Kansas City after a vain search for work in Western Kansas. He was apparently a laborer.”
• “After considering every phase of the public playground scheme, one of the details of which involved the use of the grounds around the Friends church in Delaware street, the Friends definitely decided that they could not conscientiously co-operate in the scheme to that extent…. First, they feel that familiarity with the premises acquired by some of the children might lead to vandalism upon the premises between playdays. Second, their scruples against dancing forbid training and practice in the folk dances that form a considerable part of the organized playground curriculum.”