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

• “Forty-three teams have entered the eighth annual interscholastic basket ball tournament for the high school championship of the state which will be conducted by the University in Robinson gymnasium Friday and Saturday. Of this number there are 28 boys’ teams and fifteen of the fair sex…. The boys’ teams will be housed and entertained by the various fraternities and clubs on the hill, while a special Big Sister movement of University women has been organized to take care of the girls. The women’s wing of the gymnasium will be converted into a big dormitory, with beds for the girls at night.”
• “Some time about midnight Saturday night the store belonging to Abe Wolfson was burglarized and robbed. The burglar threw a rock through the plate glass window of the front of the store and reached in and got several guns. The rock was thrown with a great deal of force for it went back some distance in the store. Several people in the neighborhood heard the crash but no one was seen when they reached the scene. Mr. Wolfson said this morning that he missed nothing from the store but the guns which were in the window. The robber did not enter the store but reached through the hole in the glass. The greatest loss will be the purchase of a new glass for the window.”
• “This afternoon as Harley Melton was backing his automobile from the garage at the residence of his father, H. C. Melton, on south Massachusetts street, he did not notice that a street car was approaching and in backing out the automobile and the street car came together. Mr. Melton was in the car with his son and he was badly bruised but sustained no serious injury. Little damage was done to the car in the accident.”
• “Miss Janet E. Finch, the teacher at Barker school, has been conducting a contest of outside work in connection with the school. The contest was for the purpose of making the children more useful in the home while they are attending school. The points on which the children were graded were: To be in bed at 9 o’clock; not eating between meals; getting up without the second call; preparing meals; taking care of own room; feeding stock; taking care of pets; personal cleanliness; and several other minor points were taken into consideration.”
• “Troop number 2 of the Boy Scouts took a hike to the country Saturday afternoon. They went several miles west of town and in their report they said the roads were in a very bad condition and hard to travel. The boys were gone several hours and in their work did some of the Boy Scout work in drill.”
• “The city officials have had some of the men who were in the city jail with fines over them on the street sweeping the pavement this afternoon to work out their fines.”