From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Oct. 23, 1915:

• “The [KU] engineers who have always had a reputation for punishing students from other schools who stray into their home, made an awful mistake the other day when a new professor from the college came over to Marvin hall to see Dean Walker on business. The prof is a young man and the engineers took him to be a student from the college. No sooner had he entered the door than he was violently bumped into the wall. He started to beg somebody’s pardon when he was bumped again and his passage from then on to the dean’s office was facilitated by a series of bumps so that he arrived at the office of the head of the school looking as though he had just emerged from a football scrimmage.”
• “The ordinance by which the city will assume the trusteeship in perpetuity of the mausoleum which will be erected at the northern border of Oak Hill Cemetery will probably be considered by the city commission tomorrow…. The ordinance has been hanging fire for over a year now. The city officials at first were unwilling to assume responsibility for the maintenance of the property. The mausoleum promoters could not dispose of the crypts in the structure except on condition that the city would become a trustee of the maintenance fund for all time.”
• “A motor car tourist bound for Kansas City had a narrow escape at a Union Pacific crossing near Mud Creek this morning. He failed to notice the approach of the east bound 9 o’clock train and had just started upon the track when the train reached the crossing. The front wheels of his car were smashed. The driver of the car escaped injury.”
• “W. P. Powell of near Worden who reported to the sheriff this week the theft of seven head of heifers from his farm, has found his stock. They had not been stolen, but had wandered away and a neighbor had placed them in his pasture until they should be inquired for. Mr. Powell called up Sheriff Cummings last night and called off the search.”
• “Officer Ed McKissack went to 821 Pennsylvania street this morning and shot a dog which had been acting strangely and was suspected of being rabid. The dog belonged to Jim Simpson.”
• “The first string men of the Kansas squad went into the game at the opening of the University-Aggie football game here today, indicating that the Kansas coaches were taking no chances of being taken by surprise by Coach Bender’s men. The field was dry and fast, the conditions which Bender, with his light team, had been hoping for, and the feeling was prevalent that the Aggie players were in condition to give the University a harder game than its record to date this season would indicate.”
• “Workmen are refacing the stone chimneys on the top of Fraser hall at the University and installing a new series of ventilators. The lower floor was extensively changes this summer and the work is not yet completed. Four new rooms have been added and the quarters of the department of home economics enlarged.”
• “Work on the two big jobs in which Lawrence is interested just now — the new bridge and the interurban line — is taking more tangible shape. The Missouri Valley Bridge company is unloading lumber at the ‘shipyard’ west of the north approach of the present bridge. The gang of workmen on the interurban line is camped at the end of Locust street and will begin work on the grading of that street the first of next week.”