From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for March 30, 1915:

• “The Ricker Home was formally inspected and accepted yesterday…. The Ricker Home is the remodeled residence at 841 Maine street…. It is not a large structure, and will afford ready accommodations for not more than eight persons, not reckoning the matron, whose permanent home is in the building…. Among the details of the remodeling the property has undergone are the partitioning and otherwise making ready for use of two extra rooms upon the third floor. The house is modern in every respect, being equipped with water service, baths, electricity and gas…. It is to be a home for working girls of good character who have no other home, and whose earnings are too scant to qualify them properly for the competitive struggle they find themselves in. Most emphatically it is not a ‘rescue’ home in any sense of the word.”
• “The Board of Education have published the advertisement for bids for the erection of the three school buildings for which the bonds were voted last year. The excavation for the three buildings is practically completed and the final plans have been received from the architect…. Two of the buildings are alike, the one which will be built on Rhode Island street and the one on the south side while the one on the north side will differ from the ones on the south side in that it will be finished without the view of adding a second story later. The building on the south side will be located on the south side of the Nineteen hundred block between Vermont and Kentucky and the Rhode Island school will be located on Rhode Island between Fourteenth and Fifteenth street…. The new Lincoln school differs in size but otherwise finished similar to the South Lawrence schools…. All of these buildings will be models of their kind, complete in all respects in the modern style of school architecture and a credit to the city of Lawrence when they are completed.”
• “The Board of Administration acting upon the recommendation made by W. O. Hamilton and the athletic board today appointed Herman Olcott of New York City as head coach of the Jayhawker football team during the next three years. Coach Olcott, according to the contract, will have complete charge of football coaching, and will remain at the University the year round…. He will succeed H. M. Wheaton, who directed the destinies of the Kansans last season but has found it impossible to devote sufficient time from his business in Kansas City to take charge of the Jayhawkers next fall.”
• “After being separated from his relatives since early childhood Charles Noble received a special delivery letter last night from his mother, Mrs. Lillie M. Briner, living at 1619 Troost Avenue, Kansas City. The letter came in answer to an advertisement in the yesterday issue of the Kansas City Times. He also received a card telling of the whereabouts of his father, sister, and one brother, leaving only the youngest boy in the family missing. Noble will leave for Kansas City Thursday morning. Charles Noble was taken from an orphans’ home when five years old and lived for fifteen years sixteen miles southwest of Clinton being known as Dewey Moss. He has been employed lately as a motorman for the Lawrence Street Railway.”