From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 6, 1915:

• “With the opening of the University only one week away and much yet to be done, workmen are rushing repairs on the buildings of the big school to completion this week. The new approaches on the west side of Fraser Hall have been completed and workmen are painting the interior of the building at present…. The new home of the School of Education will be completed by the opening of the school year next Monday and is going to add to the beauty of the campus. ‘Some people were inclined to believe that the new building would be an eyesore,’ Chancellor Frank Strong said today, ‘but now that it is nearly completed I am confident that they will all change their minds.’… Rooming houses, fraternities and sororities are undergoing their final brushings and polishings before the arrival of the students, the advance contingents of which are already in…. Many new courses will be offered at the big school this fall and the enrollment will be larger than ever before in the history of the institution, according to an announcement made by Registrar George O. Foster several days ago. It is believed that the student body for the year 1915-16 will run well past 3,000.”
• “In a letter from Guy Benton Potter, secretary of the National Association of State Universities, Chancellor Frank Strong of the University of Kansas today received word that he had been elected president of the association, which convened recently in Berkeley, California. The association, which comprises all the state universities of the United States, meets annually and works for the general good of the schools…. This is the first time that the honor has ever come to a Kansas man and students and faculty are proud that the Chancellor and the University have been highly thought of by other Universities of the country.”
• “In a raid on the house at 837 Pennsylvania street Saturday night, the police took four quarts of Monogram whisky and seventeen quarts of beer. The owners of the liquor, however, were not at home and are still at large.”
• “Labor Day bids fair to pass in Lawrence much like any other day. The banks and the county offices at the court house are closed but there is apparently no other observation of the day. Many Kansas towns, including Topeka and Columbus, are having big celebrations.”
• “Fire Chief Reinisch returned from Cincinnati, where he has been attending the national convention of fire chiefs, Saturday night, after spending a week in the Ohio city. He reports an interesting meeting, and seeing more new fire apparatus than he had ever dreamed of as existing…. A novel fire-fighting instrument is the cellar tube, which is used to fight fires in basements.”
• “In the fifth violent death at Perry, Kansas, this summer, Michael Jacobs, twenty-six years old, a son of Peter Jacobs of Superior, Wisconsin, was instantly killed when he fell under the wheels of a Union Pacific freight train yesterday morning about ten o’clock. News of the accident was brought to Lawrence by the Rev. Holyfield, who is pastor of a congregation at the little city in Jefferson county, today. It seems that Jacobs and his partner, whose name is not known, were hoboing to Wathena, Kansas, where they expected to find work picking apples, and had arrived in Perry on a U. P. freight train. While the train was drawn up on the siding Jacobs tried to catch a passing Rock Island through freight. He was thrown back when he seized a passing car…. The man must have died almost instantly…. His partner was badly frightened by the accident, Mr. Holyfield says, and left Perry…. He said that he had had enough of hoboing to last him a life time and would never steal transportation again.”