From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 5, 1915:

• “Elaborate plans are being made for the May Fete which is to be given by University girls on the green surrounding Potter’s lake on the afternoon and evening of May 14. Virtually every girl and many of the men students of the University will take an active part in the festival which promises to be one of the most spectacular and gorgeous ever staged at K. U…. The campus west of the baseball field will be the scene of the pageantry, a natural stage to be formed by the background of trees…. The senior class will approach from over the hill, singing, and after gathering and dancing on the green, a queen will be chosen from their number and placed upon her throne.”
• “The city workmen have been busy for several days repairing the bad places in the pavement on Massachusetts street. In many places the bricks were broken and had sunk but all of these places are being repaired in good shape. The street has been blocked more or less by these improvements but the joy of the motorists in riding over smooth pavement will be sufficient when it is completed to pay him for the inconvenience he has suffered in driving around the obstructions.”
• “Why should the people of the town want an ordinance providing that the people should dig out the dandelions when there is already an ordinance covering the point. The ordinance provides that the people shall be required to keep all noxious weeds from their lots and parking. The judge asks what weed is more noxious in their present state of existence than the dandelion.”
• “Again and again the Journal-World is asked, ‘Can’t something be done to break up the stealing of flowers by lawless boys?’ and the interlocutor generally winds up by saying, ‘Can’t you do something.’ We can and do hereby advise, exhort, plead, coax, and petition all raisers of flowers who are tormented by thieving boys to set somebody on watch and catch the little chaps in the overt act and have them arrested.”
• “Scientists are now convinced that the moon has no more influence on crops than it has upon the temperature or the amount of rain or the winds or any other weather element. The growth of plants depends upon the amount of food in the soil and in the aid that is available for them and upon temperature, light, and moisture…. It is therefore a mere waste of time to think about the moon in connection with the planting of crops. The moon, say the scientists, has nothing more to do with this than it has to do with the building of fences, the time for killing hogs, or any other of the innumerable things over which it was once supposed to exert a strong influence.”
• “The Firestone-Alexander Motor Car Company moves tomorrow into their new home at 632-34 Massachusetts street. They have a big, fine garage which will be modern in every respect. An especial feature is the big steel ceiling, which makes the room absolutely fireproof. This is an important item to those who keep their automobiles in a garage. In addition to the regular garage business, Firestone and Alexander will continue to be agents for Cadillac, Dodge and Chandler cars.”