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

• “When it reached the ears of Commissioner Holyfield last night that a man and his wife had applied at the city jail for a place to stay all night, he thought it time to make an investigation. There was the man, dirty from having bummed his way into town. There was the woman, poorly but neatly dressed for whom the husband had spent his last cent to buy her a ticket to Lawrence. There was a marriage license which showed that they were what they claimed to be. It appeared that the pair had been cooking at a railway camp and that their two children were with grandparents in Oklahoma. The job ended and the pair struck out to find something else. Rev. Mr. Holyfield instead of sending them to the jail for a bed sent them to a hotel and stood good for the charges. He then read in the Journal-World where a man wanted someone to work for him and called him up by phone. The result is that the man and his wife now have a place to work in the home of one of the substantial farmers of the county and their wandering has ended.”
• “The Civic League is called by the president, Mrs. E. T. Johnson, to meet next Saturday afternoon at the Y. M. C. A. parlors, with the especial request that all the committees of the organization be present to the last member. The spring work is impending, and much is to be done. The general beautifying of the city, largely through the medium of better and more gardens, the elimination of all expectorating on the sidewalks and in public places, and by children striving for prizes for the prettiest and most productive flower and garden patches, are all matters that are to be looked after.”
• “There are doubtless several hundred persons in Lawrence who will come to the polls next month wishing to vote for certain candidates for city office, for the Board of Education, or for or against the pool halls and the waterworks bonds, who will find they are not registered and therefore cannot vote. Unless you are positive that you voted at the general election last fall and have not since moved you had better go to the office of the city clerk and see that your name is properly on the books.”
• “Preliminary work in the location of the proposed Kaw river bridge started today with the making of soundings at various points in the river to ascertain the distance to bed rock and the materials lying between bed rock and the river bottom. The soundings being made today from a small row boat are under the supervision and direction of A. L. Hedrick, son of the consulting engineer…. Later if present plans are carried out soundings will be made at Rhode Island street.”
• “Topeka. – The 1915 session of the legislature is at an end. It quit and the doors were locked today when the governor sent up the last bill…. The legislature holds several records. It was the longest session in fifteen years. It had more bills than any session ever introduced. It cost more than any session since 1903. It failed to adopt a single constitutional amendment. It passed 325 laws.”