From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 7, 1915:

• “The city school board transacted a large volume of routine business last night and reached decisions upon many interesting if not particularly important questions, among them that of closing all the schools of the city for one half day during the county fair. When this went to a vote there was no division — all favored closing, and it was decided to fix the afternoon of Friday the 24th for the holiday…. Two conclusions gratifying to students of school progress were reached by a unanimous vote of the board…. The first appropriates seventy-five dollars for buying new books with which to replenish the High School library; the second appropriates one hundred fifty dollars for supplementary reading for the first, second, third and fourth grades…. The matter of repealing a rule of thirty years in the Lawrence public schools and admitting 5-year-old children to the schools was discussed…. For thirty years pupils have not been admitted until they are six years old, and it was decided not to depart from that custom. The president of the board remarked that in his judgment children should not be compelled to go to school before they are seven years of age…. It was voted to accept a bankable note from a farmer in lieu of cash in payment of tuition for several children who will not be able to continue in school unless some such dispensation is made. The proposition was discussed from every point of view, and there was no division when a vote was finally taken. It appears that the children are ambitious, bright and sensible and that the progress of their education will be seriously interfered with if they cannot enter school until the money is saved to pay their tuition…. E. S. Lemon and wife, who have six children of school age, seek admission to the city school district. They live just west of the city limits, and upon the line of Ninth street, adjoining the territory recently taken into the district. They are the only parties living in that immediate neighborhood who seek annexation, being the only ones having children of school age. They are now in the Brackett district, but the school house is at a great distance and they want closer and better school facilities. Mr. Lemon urged that he owns considerable property in the city, but does not want to move into town if he can avoid it. The question of whether an individual and isolated resident can be annexed was raised and Mr. Lemon was advised to at once consult with the city attorney.”
• “The placing of a single standard, which will contain instructions to drivers, so that there will be no excuse for violations of the city traffic ordinance, is favored by commissioner of finance Holyfield, and such standards will probably be placed at the street intersections of the cross streets and Massachusetts street soon. ‘I have seen this plan used in several Kansas towns and it works out well,’ the commissioner said today, ‘and I believe that it would work out well in Lawrence…. The cost will not need to be at all large…. for we can use the old light poles and I will paint the instructions on the crossarms myself, if necessary.’ (The commissioner used to be a painter so he is safe in making the assertion.) A small red light will probably be placed on the top of each pole. ‘The traffic problem is getting to be a serious one in Lawrence,’ the commissioner of finance continued, ‘and if we can do away with the trouble by placing these instruction poles, and I believe that we can, it will be one of the wisest things that we have done in a long time. With the careless driving methods now used by many people running cars, riding bicycles, and driving horse vehicles on the business streets of Lawrence it is a wonder that we do not have more accidents than we do and I believe that the poles will be a solution of the nuisance.'”
• “S. Stull of Stull was in town today consulting with Otis Perkins in regard to planting dynamite on the Wilson Hill at Stull and discharging it on Sept. 15, which is the day before work will be commenced on the Good Roads Day there. In this way the dirt can be loosened and it will make the work more easy and more effective.”