100 years ago: City takes steps to greet Kansas-Nebraska fans

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 3, 1915:

  • “Lawrence is soon to be host to a big crowd of football enthusiasts, and the Merchants association is taking steps now to see that the town is properly decorated for the occasion, the Kansas-Nebraska game…. The Merchants association will cooperate with the University authorities in seeing that all the streets which will be traversed by the football crowd will have plenty of the colors of the two schools swinging to the breeze.”
  • “To show the faculty’s attitude toward student spirit, Chancellor Frank Strong of the University this morning granted a two hour rally to be held on Friday morning, November 12, the day before the Nebraska game. Cheerleader Joe Gaitskill will be in charge and the biggest rally ever held at the University will be pulled off, the yell master says…. The action of the chancellor is significant. It is taken by the students as a welcome sign that the faculty and board of administration are as anxious as they are to see the whole school behind the team on the day of the great gridiron struggle with the Cornhuskers, and it is safe to say that the University has awakened to the necessity for concerted effort along all lines if the Jayhawk is to husk Nebraska’s corn this year.”
  • “Those who have driven out from Lawrence in various directions, notably to Ottawa and back, encounter some bad roads upon which a large amount of hard work has been done this fall at considerable expense. They are stretches upon which the heavy graders and deflectors have been used, drawn by tractors. As one result the road has been ‘shaped up’ from the sides, the slope naturally being considerable from the center to the outer edges of the road. So far so good, but the weather has been dry long enough that any tendency to clod has been greatly exaggerated between the treatment and the weather. Huge clods that can only be broken with a maul encumber the roadbed and are a great nuisance…. Apparently the only correction for this upon scores of miles of roads is to wait until rain comes and then take advantage of the moisture soon enough to break down these clods by dragging before they again become dry.”
  • “Lawrence Cleveland, the young fellow who was badly bruised about the body and severely cut about the head when he fell off a Union Pacific freight car a week ago and was taken to Social Service League Hall and put in the care of the visiting nurse, has so far recovered that he left the Hall yesterday…. He says his home is Maryville, and that the accident happened upon his first considerable trip away from home, while he was trying to travel cheaply. He was on his way home from Kansas City when it happened. He seemed to be deeply grateful for the care he received and promised some returns for it all when he shall be able to make any. The nurse and others at the Hall were very favorably impressed with him.”
  • “Charlie Kaiser made a record with his Ford car Saturday night that will be the envy of all jitney drivers. When he was driving into town Saturday he caught up with a party of nine University girls who were trudging back to town after a picnic on the Wakarusa. Mr. Kaiser found room in his car for all nine of them and brought them back to town.”