From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Nov. 30, 1915:

• “An effort to change the scale of pay for Lawrence firemen was blocked at the weekly meeting of the city commission today after it had come within an ace of being passed. Commissioner Cleland raised a question as to the legality of making the change in just the way the ordinance had it, and City Attorney Harley was not sure it was all right when the point was called to his attention. Mr. Cleland raised the point that the salaries and terms of the fire department officers are fixed by ordinance already and that no change in an officer’s salary can be made in the midst of a term…. The scheme in short is to substitute a flat rate of payment for the present system of paying for the present system of paying according to the number of fire calls that are answered. It would be of interest of the firemen to have as few fires as possible under that arrangement and the commissioners figure that the result would be to make each fireman a deputy fire worker…. The ordinance was laid on the table until the point about the legality of changing the salaries at present is settled.”
• “They are making the dirt fly on Locust street today. In addition to the interurban grading crew which lately got on the job, the A. R. Young Construction company began grading the balance of the street today in preparation for the laying of the paving which will be put down on that street. Each of the gangs is using about fifteen teams and enough workmen to keep them going…. From present indications the interurban track will be in Lawrence almost as soon as the grading work is finished in preparation for it. The trolley wire was strung on the line yesterday as far west as the sub-station just east of the Mackey school house, about two miles east of Mud Creek. The team locomotive of the Kansas City Southern road which is used in track laying is working now almost as far west as Mud Creek. Unless there is some extraordinary interruption of work it is evident that the line should be completed to Lawrence easily before the first of the year. The work is being pushed as fast as possible. Even the hours of the night are employed by an extra force of workmen who haul the material of the road which is laid during the day.”
• “Last week was almost a banner one for the issuing of hunting licenses at the office of the county clerk for eighty one men were supplied with the paper slips which gives them the right to go gunning for the fur and feathered population of the county. Of the eighty-one men who took out licenses three of them had them given free because they had served in the regular army and soldiers are exempt from payment. Farmers, lawyers, merchants, mechanics and even college professors are among the purchasers…. Ministers are about the only class of professional men who are not represented on the stubs of the license cards.”