From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 10, 1915:

• “Ground will be broken in a few days for the new Bowersock elevator in North Lawrence, directly south of the Union Pacific freight depot. It may be that the main structure will not be at once erected, though that depends upon the weather. But the scales will be put in now and foundations laid for the main building. This structure will be of reinforced concrete, square, sixty-five feet high, and will have about 25,000 bushels capacity. The equipment, like the building itself, will be strictly modern, having a high degree of efficiency…. This building is intended mainly as a loading and unloading station for wheat shipped in for use in the Bowersock mills. The main storage will continue to be upon the south side of the river, as heretofore. It will be of fireproof construction in every respect. The contents may burn, the building never will.”
• “Children in Methodist families in Lawrence are going to be careful about the complaints they made around home, for a few weeks at least. The reason is that yesterday morning, the pastor of the First Methodist Church, H. W. Hargett, made a special talk to the children and their parents suggesting the establishment of a ‘grumble box’ in each family. Every time John does not like the beefsteak or Mary does not approve of the salad, the grumble box will receive a contribution of one cent. Father and mother, Dr. Hargett said, must come under the law of the box which he thinks pretty soon will produced much more pleasant family life in Lawrence. ‘When the box is full of pennies,’ Dr. Hargett continued, ‘it can be sent to foreign missions, labeled “for the heathen, from the heathen at home.”‘”
• “The new $200,000 bridge across the Kaw river at Lawrence, for the construction of which bids were opened by the county commissioners yesterday, is the cause of a controversy between city and county officials which halted the proceedings today. Though ready to award the contract, the county commissioners announced today that they would take no further step until the city prepared and passed a satisfactory ordinance fixing the relations of the city toward the new bridge…. The main cause of disagreement is that part of the ordinance favored by two of the city commissioners which provides that in case the bridge ever becomes a city bridge, the revenue that have been collected by the county for the use of the bridge by public utilities shall all revert to the city.”