From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 11, 1915:

• “Members of the Lawrence Country Club are to get a new view of their club grounds tomorrow afternoon, when, instead of going there for recreation they will spend the afternoon in real bone labor. ‘Clean up day’ at the Country Club was arranged at a recent meeting of the board of directors when it was decided that a half day of toil from the members would put the grounds into the condition desired without adding to the financial burden of the club…. All members of the club were notified today to be at the Fraternal Aid building at 1 o’clock tomorrow afternoon, where cars will be waiting to take them out to their half day of toil.”
• “The unexpected appearance of Officers Froeliger and Jones in the alley in the 800 block between Pennsylvania and New Jersey streets last night broke up a crap game and caused three of the gamesters to appear in police court this morning. They were ‘Husky’ Strode, Zack Green, and Joe Thornton. The men were fined $15.50 each in police court this morning and were paroled on promise to get jobs and pay as they could in installments. There were six of the men in the game, but they ran so many different ways when the alarm was given that the officers could round only three of them up.”
• “In and out of the Bowersock mills have been shipped 430 carloads of wheat and flour during the month of September. Of this amount 180 carloads were of milling wheat. Flour, the product of the Bowersock mills, has taken first prize at half a dozen state fairs this fall, including Illinois.”
• “The clubs and other organizations that have pledged either goods or cash for the Social Service League work are asked to at once turn in the cash or goods as the case may be, so the work of the League may be carried on. Supplies are needed badly now, and they will be needed worse before the holidays, and much worse before spring comes.”
• “Tip is now a full-sized bird dog, and is just a little older than the song, Tipperary. He was shipped in a small box to a family on Illinois street, to whom he belongs. The box made him a comfortable bed the first few weeks at his new home. Tip stood the growing pains of doghood with genuine canine fortitude. But he is unable to understand why he can’t still have the bed used in his puppyhood days. He finds that about one-third of his anatomy easily fills the box. So after trying in vain to get into the box, he sits beside it and utters pitiful, suppressed whines of self-pity, until some tender-hearted member of the family comes out to console him.”
• “Overbrook, Kan. – Robbers entered the post office here early today, blew the safe and escaped with a quantity of stamps and about $55.00. Residents of the town awakened by the explosion, which wrecked the post office building, formed a posse, but found no trace of the robbers. The robbery was reported to Lawrence early this morning and the local officers were warned to be on the lookout for the robbers. There were no indications that they passed this way.”