From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for May 14, 1915:

• “Most of the laundry bill contracted by the Clayton brothers while running a laundry route among the University students for Wilders’ laundry will have to be paid according to the decision of the jury which was brought in late yesterday afternoon. After a long argument by the attorneys the jury was sent out and it took but a few hours for them to reach a decision…. Considerable interesting evidence was introduced in the case. The defendants tried to show where the plaintiff has not filled the contract which has been made between them but there was no question in the minds of the jury whether or not the bill would have to be paid. ‘We are having hard luck with the juries in this term of court,’ said Judge Smart today when the jury in the case of the City of Baldwin vs. Stone, appeal from Justice court, was brought in at noon and they reported that they had reached no decision. ‘As I have often said to other juries,’ he said, ‘all personal prejudice, if there be such, must be laid aside. Any personal stubbornness must also be dismissed. After a person has cast a vote in one direction there is always a little stubbornness to giving in even if they may see that there is a possibility of their being a little in the wrong.'”
• “There will be seven more teachers employed in the public schools of the city next year than this year. Each of the new buildings will require several teachers, more in the aggregate than the total increase, which necessarily means that several teachers will be transferred from the uptown force to the new buildings…. One of the additional teachers will be put into the Lincoln school and will be colored, making a total of six colored teachers in the city.”
• “F. E. Deskins says that the upland wheat has already suffered great damaged from chinch bugs, some fields having been injured so much that he thinks they should be plowed up. The young bugs are now hatching, and are getting busy. The bottom wheat so far has not been badly affected.”