From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 15, 1915:

• “The gas question came to the fore in Lawrence yesterday morning because there wasn’t any in many of the service pipes when housewives started to get breakfast. The same condition was noted again this morning. Hence the question, What about the gas? discussed between members of families and over the wire with the gas office. This is a question that couldn’t be answered at the local gas office this morning. The local company is using all the gas the pipe line company will let it take out of the main at the city limits. It can’t get any more at present, but Manager Dodds said this morning he hoped that in a short time permission would be granted for a little more pressure at the local company’s intake pipe. In the meantime, the manager suggested, householders who use gas for furnace purposes may help the gas situation by keeping the gas burning a little through the night. The trouble at present, he said, is that people haven’t yet begun to keep their furnaces going regularly and in the mornings the houses are all cold, requiring a great deal of heat in the early morning hours to make them comfortable for the day.”
• “This is the season of the year when men traveling without resources apply at the city jail for a night’s lodging. The municipal lodging house is open to all who come early in the evening, as ‘sleeping out’ is hardly possible any longer. Two husky Nebraska lads were entertained last night. They denied that they had been playing football on McCook field Saturday…. They were bound for the interurban construction camp and went there this morning after jobs.”
• “Plans for a semi-centennial exposition at the University, when the Jayhawker school reaches its fiftieth birthday next fall, were discussed by the visiting alumni in their meeting last Saturday, and their support pledged to the movement provided the faculty and board of education will cooperate. While the final word will probably rest with Chancellor Strong and the University senate, it is believed that if sufficient interest is taken by the students and all the alumni, that it will go through.”
• “There is being unloaded from flat cars upon the north side of the river today an eighty horse-power boiler and a twenty horse-power hoisting engine for use in the construction of the bridge. Both, like the hydraulic pump that was unloaded here upon the south side of the river, are entirely new pieces of machinery…. With the completion of the barge the boiler and hoisting engine can be placed in readiness for doing the very heavy lifting, and barring flood water and the most inclement weather there is every prospect that rapid progress upon the bridge will be made in about two or three weeks.”
• “Vernon Haskins, who has been in the county bastille charged with failure to support his wife and family, pleaded guilty before Judge Smart today and was released on probation, having promised to see to it that those dependent on him were provided for in the future. Haskins now lives in south Lawrence and has been married for several years. He gained notoriety last summer by going over the Bowersock dam in a rowboat while the flood was on.”
• “W. E. Kennedy is having his residence at 904 Louisiana reroofed and remodeled. The improvements are extensive and will greatly add to the convenience and appearance of the property.”