From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 20, 1915:

• “Three Turkish peddlers appeared at the city hall this morning and asked the price of a license to peddle rugs, table cloths, and the like from house to house. When they found the license fee was $10 they refused to pay and said they would peddle without any license. Chief Fisher assured them they would be arrested if they did. Then they inquired what the fine would be and after learning that $50 was the minimum left the city hall apparently undecided about what to do. Householders who are solicited by peddlers to buy are requested to ask for their licenses and if they cannot be produced to call either the police station or the Merchants’ association. A fraternity at the University was talked into buying a $50 rug by a peddler this week. The price of the same rug at a local dealer’s would be less than half the amount paid for it.”
• “Rural school teachers from all over Douglas county gathered at the court house this morning to attend the regular monthly meeting of their association, and according to members who attended, the meeting was one of the most successful of the year. O. J. Lane, of the public schools of Baldwin, addressed the teachers and in the course of his remarks brought out the fact that the average country school attempts too many courses and does not cover the ground thoroughly enough in all of them. He advocates a reduction in the number of courses offered and more thorough work on the ones that are given.”
• “H. W. Switzer of the Eldridge house barber shop is nursing an injured hand because as he says he grew careless with his razors. He cut the end of a finger off one day and badly gashed the finger next to it the following day.”
• “The police are going after drivers of motor cars who go through the streets with exhausts wide open. An offender was arrested yesterday and was cited to appear in police court Monday morning.”
• “The members of the Womens Relief Corps assisted by D. B. Hunnicut, as chairman, gave a program at Post hall yesterday afternoon and followed it with serving what they called a tea. One of the guests asked, ‘If this is what you serve for a tea, what might one expect at a dinner?’ Everything served was first-class and everyone was served liberally.”
• “Turkey for Thanksgiving is going to be high but the fruits and vegetables will be lower. Within the week the price of turkey has jumped two cents to five cents a pound, and the best Maryland product is selling at 30 cents, higher than for three years. Turkey from the west is quoted today at 24c to 25c. The warm weather this fall is blamed for the high price.”
• “County Commissioner John Hoover, who lives in the Lone Star neighborhood, is threshing his clover crop today. The seed is worth about nine dollars a bushel.”