From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 10, 1915:

• “Dr. S. J. Crumbine’s address at the Trinity Lutheran church would have benefitted fifteen hundred or more people just as much as the two hundred who were there and who were glad they heard it…. Dr. Crumbine denounces the use of wells in the cities, declaring that nearly all of them are the sources of disease to a greater extent than is possible almost, for water from a regular waterworks to become. So saturated is the soil in the cities with filth that it is impossible in a majority of instances for the well water to be anything but foul. It is almost impossible, according to Dr. Crumbine, for the water from a waterworks to ever become as foul as the well water in the city. This is proven by chemical tests in a multitude of instances. Dr. Crumbine talked for an hour and a half including the time occupied by lantern slides, which were very informing, being pictures taken in various Kansas cities.”
• “Five hundred pennants to gladden the eyes of the many football visitors in Lawrence Saturday and give the college finish to the town were received today by Harry B. Sparks, secretary of the Merchants association. The pennants are now ready for delivery to the various merchants who have ordered them. Those which are used for interior decoration can be put away after the game and will be perfectly good two years from now when another Kansas-Nebraska game will be played in Lawrence. Half the pennants are blue with red K and the other half are read with a white N. It is the plan of the merchants to display the Nebraska colors equally with the Kansas red and blue, and show the visitors to the town that the Cornhuskers are received with true hospitality.”
• “Frank Adams, 16 years old, was released from the city jail Saturday morning after serving a short sentence for stealing a bicycle. Frank promised to go out to the country and get a job with a farmer, but his good resolution faded before he was a block away from the police station. While passing up the alley in rear of the Clark cleaning establishment on his way from the police station, Adams saw a suit of clothes which had been put out to dry. He annexed the suit and somewhere else an old bicycle and went to Ottawa. Officers there arrested him. Adams will be brought back to Lawrence. It is likely that he will be sent to one of the state institutions.”
• “Peter Tanner, a fullblood Cherokee Indian, died at Haskell Institute at 9 o’clock this morning, from the effects of meningitis…. The body will be taken to Vanita, Oklahoma, his old home, for both funeral and interment. Tanner was a young man of excellent character and deeply religious, a member of a church, and of the Y. M. C. A.”
• “The backers of the University short course for merchants of Kansas which will be held in the college buildings February 7 to 11, feel that they are sure to be able to offer the business men of the state a rare opportunity…. H. Lesley Wildey, who has beaten the mail order houses at their own game, making his little country store at Graettinger, Iowa, one of the most paying retail establishments in the country, will give an address and will tell Kansas merchants how to beat the mail order octopus. Mr. Wildey advertises to deliver goods at the same price that the mail order people advertise and to make the freight one half of the freight from the city house. He does it, too, and makes a profit. The how of it will be explained when he talks to Kansas merchants during the short course.”