From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 9, 1915:

• “After the Nebraska game, what? Win or lose, the next day, Sunday the fourteenth, is University Sunday in the Lawrence churches. Are you planning to go to church that day, Friend Student? Try it this once, if you are not a regular attendant. This special day is set apart for students because many have not been taking advantage of church services. Very likely you will have some of the folks visiting you. Take them. Nothing can please your mother more…. Maybe you do not believe in church. Away with such immature conclusions! Perhaps you’d just rather not go. Lazy! Arouse yourself! The pastors are doing much more than we realize for the thousands of students who are in Lawrence each year. Let’s reciprocate and be courteous to them this once. Let’s go to church and see what they have for us. If you don’t go all the time, at least go next Sunday. Try it this once, Friend Student.”
• “The first intimation that city politics are brewing for the campaign next spring was heard at the weekly meeting of the city commission today. The question as to whether the commissioner of finance or the utilities commissioner shall be the next to go out of office in Lawrence is a standing problem which comes up before the commission about every so often. It has never been settled because Commissioners Holyfield and Cleland have not been able to agree on the method of settlement…. At the time Lawrence adopted the commission form, the law provided that the mayor first elected should serve but one year, that one of the commissioners should serve two years and the other three. Unfortunately it did not say which commissioner should leave office or stand for re-election at the end of two years and the Lawrence commissioners have themselves been unable to decide, each preferring that the other stand for re-election in the spring of 1916.”
• “Miss Edna Haskins who lives with her parents in the 300 block on Maine street, was seriously injured when she drove a buggy upon the track in front of a street car at Seventh and New Hampshire streets last night. The young woman was thrown from the buggy, which was demolished, sustaining severe bruises, though fortunately no bones were broken.”
• “Repairs are being made upon the north end of the Bowersock dam, made necessary by the protracted high waters of last spring and summer. When the waters fell and remained low for some time it became evident that some of the cribbing at the foot of the dam had been torn away. Had the water remained high for some weeks longer it is quite possible that the damage might not have been discovered until the foot of the dam had been weakened by the cribbing breaking down until a large section of the dam was ready go to out. As it is the building of much cribbing, and weighting down by rock, has become necessary. The cribs are sunk at the very foot of the dam, filled and covered with rock.”