100 years ago: Lawrence citizens to vote on pool hall question

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 10, 1915:

  • “Petitions signed by about two thousands of the voters of Lawrence were presented to the Commissioners in their meeting this morning asking that the ordinance prohibiting the pool halls in Lawrence be put to a vote of the people at the general election which will come on April 6. The petition was received and filed and the commissioners voted to put the matter before the people as they have requested. The ordinance will be submitted to the people and they will vote yes or no on its adoption…. The members of the Ministerial Alliance were active in getting the petition before the people. They realize that a large number of people want the pool halls put out of town and the only way they have of letting it be known that the number is so large is for them to circulate a petition. The pool halls have never been before the people for a general vote and the sentiment of the people of the town has never been generally expressed on the question.”
  • “While the farmers are well aware of the benefits of the recent snow in wetting up the sub-soil thoroughly for the first time in the last four or five years, still some are anxiously watching the weather conditions on account of the nearness of the time for oat sowing. Several farmers who were able to brave the condition of the roads and come to town today stated that if the ground was not dry in a very short period it would be impossible to get the seed in the ground in time for a crop.”
  • “At the meeting of the Boys’ club in the Y. M. building last night the election of officers took place and the report of the resolution committee was made and adopted…. The resolutions stand for clean speech and clean living and prohibit the use of tobacco in any form, and the use of profane language. They also stand against cheating both in and out of the class rooms, dishonesty and the practice of unsportsmanlike rooting on part of spectators in the various athletic contests which take place at the local high school.”
  • “Topeka. – The senate committee on temperance doesn’t believe in letting everybody know who gets liquors in Kansas. It has killed the Candill bill to require the publication of the liquor shipments into each county in Kansas. The house had already passed the measure, after a hard fight and it was sent to the senate to see how that body felt about ‘giving away’ the drinkers in the state. The senate never got a chance to express itself as the committee attended to the bill and it was put into the ‘dead box’ without very many senators knowing that it had really reached that body. The bill provided that once each month the county clerk should publish, in the official county paper, a complete list of the names of the persons who received liquors the previous month, the kind and quantity of liquors received and the date.”