From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for June 28, 1915:

• “Many Lawrence motorists and farmers are complaining of the blinding electric lights on the big touring cars. The drivers say that when one of the big cars approaches at night the electric lights blind passing drivers so that they cannot see what is ahead on their side of the road. A narrow escape from a collision was averted by sheer luck last Saturday night, a Lawrence man says, when he came nearly running into a horse and buggy after having been blinded by the electric lights on a passing car.”
• “Union Pacific and Rock Island freight trains passing through Lawrence yesterday were all loaded with traveling gentry who were making their way west to the harvest fields. One Rock Island freight carried nearly one hundred of the free passengers. Two flat cars were comfortably filled and every box car had its contingent. ‘It’s not much use to try to keep them off,’ said a railroad man yesterday, ‘and besides the company usually gets fares out of a lot of them on the way back when they are flush after working in the harvest…. As long as they will ride peaceably we think it best to let them and trust to luck that they will pay on the way back.'”
• “The plans are working out for the great race to be held this fall at the Douglas County fair in which the victor will hold the championship for Kansas and Missouri. The Missouri end of the race is handled by the Fair Association at Independence, Mo., the home of the Quantrill gang and there has been more bad blood in the past between Lawrence and Independence than between any other two cities in the two states. The challenge has come from Missouri to send a lady rider to Lawrence to ride a twelve-mile relay race against any Kansas girl who may be chosen, for a purse of $500.00. It will be a race for the championship of two states and will undoubtedly attract a great deal of attention. The first thing to be done is to secure the right girl to represent Kansas in the race.”
• “C. A. Finch and Ed. Klein, partners in a large farm up the river a few miles, have lost two hundred acres of corn, oats and potatoes beneath flood waters from the river. What is more, it is a total loss. Their sole dependence for this year is in replanting. Seed potatoes are not to be had, it is too late for oats, and the present intention therefore, is to replant the ground to late corn and feterita.”
• “Guy Biggsley is having a hay and feed barn, 24×60 feet, built on his farm six miles west, on the California road…. F. M. Browning has just completed and moved into his bungalow home at 512 Indiana, moving there from 643 Rhode Island. The new home has five rooms, with all the usual smaller apartments, and is in every respect modern.”