From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 18, 1915:

• “By mere chance it was discovered a few days ago that an attempt had been made to create dangerous risks for the children using the playground swings at the New York and Woodlawn schools. Six swings at the New York school are swung from one log beam. Two bolts to each swing perforate the beam, and to make the bolts permanent fixtures they are surmounted at the top by heavy burrs. From the lower ends of the bolts hang chains to which the seats of the swings are fastened. It was found that the burrs at the top of the beam had been removed from the bolts, leaving the bolts to keep their places in the beams only as they clung to it by the rust and corrosion. In time they would have given way of course, under the weight of some swinging youngster, and a broken limb or back would be as likely to result as any minor injury…. It was not known when or by whom this degenerate vandalism was perpetrated. A close parallel to this trick was the deliberate filing in two of a link in one of the chain swings at the Woodlawn playground. This also was discovered before it had given way and precipitated some child to the ground. There is deliberate malice animating this deviltry in the opinion of the school authorities, and these and other acts of lawlessness will probably inspire the board to do some detective work in striving to identify the perpetrators.”
• “The Lawrence Ministerial Alliance this morning agreed upon a change of tactics to a certain extent, and adopted a plan that may be with propriety called ‘something different’ for November. Sunday, November 7, ‘Everybody’ is invited to come to church. It makes not the slightest difference to which church he goes – but go somewhere. ‘Everybody’ merely means everybody. It does not mean any class of citizens whatsoever. It means all who live and have a being inside the Lawrence radius, regardless of race, sex, vocation, or circumstances as affecting personal prosperity. ‘Everybody’ means everybody who is not in jail, or entirely incapacitated for any other reason, from attending church…. Sunday, November 14, the students are especially invited out to church. This means the students of the public schools, from the kindergarten and primary grades to the High School; it means the students of the University, of Haskell, and of the business college…. Sunday, November 21, will be ‘family Sunday.’ On this date father and mother, grandpa and grandma, and the generation before them if there is one, and the children – all of them – are expected to go to church. Family parties will be the thing: come together, listen together, go home together.”