From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 8, 1915:

• “The primary election for the candidates for mayor for the city of Lawrence and for the election of candidates for members of the board of education will be held tomorrow. Preparations for the election are being made and the polls put in readiness. The ballots were delivered from the printer Saturday and will be distributed to the judges and clerks early tomorrow morning…. There are six candidates for mayor and two of these will be elected for the final election which will be held April 6th. The voting booths have been placed in position at the various precincts and the books are being prepared for the election. The poll books have been revised and all names that do not belong there have been scratched off. There is a decrease in the registration on account of many of the names being removed…. It is the general sentiment that there will not be a very large vote cast at the election tomorrow as the interest in the candidates has at no time reached a very hot point. There have been no heated arguments on the question which is probably accounted for by the fact that it is a non-partisan election. All of the candidates are independent of political pull and are running on their individual merits.”
• “Mrs. Anna Mary Burnett, widow of Judge J. C. Burnett, died yesterday at the home of her son, W. W. Burnett, in Lawrence, Kansas. Mrs. Burnett, whose maiden name was Fisk, was born in Waterville, Vermont, March 10, 1832…. Mrs. Burnett moved with her husband from Vermont to Kansas in 1856 and was one of the band of pioneer Kansas women, who did quite as much as the pioneer men, in founding a great, free, righteous, intelligent commonwealth. She was a woman of heroic Puritan character, always patient and cheerful, always ready to lend a hand, always interested in those around her, devoted to her church, her state and her country.”
• “It is apparent from the number of notifications that the officers are serving this morning that the people of Lawrence are very negligent about cleaning the sidewalks. The phones at the police station are kept busy nearly all of the time answering complaints about people not cleaning the snow off their walks. Notification is served on the party owning the property and if the snow is not removed, the city can do the work and charge it up to the property owner and it is a debt that has to be paid. ‘There is no legitimate excuse for this carelessness in most cases,’ said Chief Fisher this morning, ‘and we are going to see that the walks are cleaned.'”
• “F. S. Williams, one of the most well known farmers of Palmyra township, has recently made an investigation of the chinch bugs and says that the wet weather and the snow has killed most of them. He made an experiment with some of the bugs. Gathering a bunch of grass in which they were plentiful, he placed it under the stove to warm and the bugs failed to come to life. With the chinch bugs gone and the last big snow the wheat crop is practically ensured.”