From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 29, 1915:

• “John L. Carter, an old resident of Lawrence, was instantly killed yesterday afternoon. He was struck by a train while crossing the Union Pacific tracks between the Union Pacific station and the watering tank a short distance east. The train was No. 105, the Topeka plug, which reached Lawrence last night about 5:50 o’clock. The train was slowing up for the stop at the station when Mr. Carter was struck, and no blame is attached to the train men for the fatality. It is thought that Mr. Carter’s defective hearing was responsible for the fact that he was unaware that the train was approaching…. Mr. Carter was 85 years old. He was for a long time watchman at the Kaw river bridge in Lawrence and had served in that capacity yesterday afternoon, relieving C. C. Pickard, the regular watchman. He was on his way from that work to the Fearing home at Third and Perry streets, North Lawrence, where he lived, when the train struck him. There were only a few witnesses of the accident. They noted that Mr. Carter was looking at the ground in front of him and that he gave no sign to indicate he knew the train was near.”
• “Prof. E. M. Hopkins, of the department of English at the University, was elected president of the association of National Teachers of English, at the close of its convention in Chicago last Saturday…. One of the most widely reported speakers at the recent convention is Mr. Percival Chubb, director of the Ethical Culture Society of St. Louis. Mr. Chubb, in a scathing arraignment of American life, declared that the country was culture bankrupt and that instead of true culture and folk-lore it has a ‘tintinnabulating, ragtime, and shoulder-swinging, finger-snapping’ culture, which lets a Shakespeare show close in a week, but supports a bare-legged, half-naked chorus show for a record run.”
• “The body of S. N. Simpson, a pioneer in Lawrence who died in Kansas City Saturday night, will be brought to Lawrence on the Santa Fe noon train tomorrow and interred direct from the train in Oak Hill Cemetery…. Mr. Simpson was in Lawrence from 1854 to 1877. He helped to found the town and is said to have suggested its name. He was active in the Free State movement, making many speeches in the east, and was a close friend of John Brown when the latter was in this part of Kansas.”
• “Robert Wilson who was caught by city police officers Saturday night carrying a gallon jug of whisky down an alley, protested strongly that the liquor was for his own use and that he had never intended to sell any of it. Wilson’s protest did not save him from being taken to the county jail today, where a charge of bringing liquor into the city unlawfully was preferred against him.”
• “The black horse which was stolen from the farm of Jesse Worsup near Eudora last week was located Saturday in a livery stable at Armourdale. Orris Payne, 17 years old, had put the horse in the barn to be fed and was taken in charge by officers to be questioned. Payne was brought to Lawrence. He said today that he had bought the horse from a stranger at Bonner Springs…. The officers are somewhat skeptical of the story the boy tells. He worked near Eudora last summer.”
• “A small shed back of the German Methodist church was destroyed by fire yesterday evening. The alarm was sent in to the department at 6:25 o’clock. The loss was about $25. It is not known how the fire started.”
• “A meeting of the Boys Club has been called for tomorrow night in the Y. M. C. A. A discussion of the orchestra and glee club plans will be made by the managers…. The glee club at present is without a leader but the leader, it is expected, will be selected this week. H. W. Ferguson is attempting to secure a university student for this job.”