From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 22, 1915:

“Dr. James Naismith, head of the department of men’s physical training at the University, is walking these days while his automobile sits at home in its garage. The professor had two ribs broken the other day while cranking his car, and he is waiting until he is physically fit before he takes up motoring again.”

“Stories are floating around the Hill to the effect that many of the Greek letter societies are to have new homes before the year of 1916-17 opens and it is said that many of the alumni who returned to the Nebraska game noticed that the members of the active chapter of their fraternities were unusually cordial. When it leaked out that a contribution or a loan toward a house fund would be acceptable, the alumni saw a reason for the ‘mighty-glad-to-see-you-back’ and the glad hand stuff that was passed out to them. However the houses are going to come, just the same.”

“Convinced by six months of waiting, in which no word came that her husband had fallen while fighting in the armies of Germany, Mrs. Ruby Gardner von Schmelling, formerly of Lawrence, has returned to America from Germany where she had been waiting and hoping since last May to hear definite word of her husband’s fate. Mrs. von Schmelling visited in Lawrence yesterday at the home of Theo. Gardner…. Mrs. von Schmelling went to Germany after the opening of the war. Her husband was an officer in the German army and responded to the first call to the colors. Some months ago came an unverified report that her husband had been killed in action. No verification or denial of the report could be obtained by the wife or the members of the husband’s family, and for a long time Mrs. von Schmelling waited in the hope of hearing that at the worst her husband had been taken prisoner. But in six months not a word was added to that first unverified report, and the members of the family were forced to accept it as the truth and to give up expecting the return of the officer. Mrs. von Schmelling is now heir to large estates in Germany but will not come into possession of them until the end of the war.”

“Letters from both the Lawrence Railway and Light company and the Kansas City, Kaw Valley & Western interurban line were received at the city hall today assuring the mayor and commissioners that only a single line of railway is contemplated on Locust street, and in the middle of the street. This assurance clears up any doubt that may have existed in the matter, and establishes the fact that the thirty-foot paving ordered by the city commission on Locust street will be amply wide. It is expected that at its weekly meeting tomorrow the city commission will finally close the contract which was given provisionally to A. R. Young & Co. last week for the laying of the paving and work on the paving will begin this week if the preliminary arrangements can be closed quickly.”