From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 15, 1915:

• “Women students at the University of Kansas will have an opportunity to vote to lengthen the duration of their ‘dates,’ following a meeting of the Women’s Student Government Association last night. The women’s council voted to change the limit of the date period from 10:30 to 11 o’clock on Friday and Saturday nights, and to 10 o’clock on Sunday nights. The reason given for the change of the time on Friday and Saturday night was that the greater number of the ‘dates’ are to the movie theatre shows, and it is not possible for the students to see the last show and return to the young women’s rooming houses by 10 o’clock.”
• “Six hundred yards of dirt to be taken from the alley between the post office and the Bowersock buildings will be used to build up the north side of Sixth street on either side of the end of Kentucky where it abuts the north end of Central park. The fill will be made from the street curbing on the north side of Sixth for a distance of about two hundred fifty feet. At the present there is no parking, but instead a declivity from the curbing down into the ravine. The fill will afford a parking, and beyond that a support for a sidewalk, making the sidewalk line continuous from the Santa Fe switch tracks westward to the intersection of Sixth and Tennessee. Local travel in that neighborhood needs the improvement, as hundreds of pedestrians daily cross the street twice when they should not at all, or else walk in the street for a block and a half.”
• “The second basement front in the Merchants’ National Bank, on East Eighth street, is being remodeled and repaired for the occupancy of W. E. Spalding, who will conduct therein a real estate and insurance business. The work is being done by William Nadelhoffer. The four-ton safe that has long been in these apartments was found to have sagged the floor considerably and it was necessary to jack it up with a set of screws.”
• “The Heim electric line expects to have steel laid to Lawrence just a month from today. The work of grading the roadbed in advance of the track-layers has now progressed as far as the eastern outskirts of North Lawrence. A greatly increased force was lately put to work on the grading gang following Mr. Heim’s announcement a few weeks ago that he wanted 100 additional men.”