From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 9, 1915:

• “Jay driving of an automobile by some person unknown, resulted yesterday in Miss Georgia Batt being knocked to the ground as she was crossing Ninth street between New Hampshire and Massachusetts while on her way to the Fraternal Aid Union offices, where she is employed…. She dimly remembers seeing an automobile turn into Ninth off New Hampshire a few seconds before she was struck…. Her last distinct impression was that the auto was not near her, and she had no thought or impression of danger. The next she knew she was picking herself up from the street and the auto was going rapidly west on Ninth, the driver paying not the slightest heed to what had happened…. She was severely bruised in a dozen places and her clothes were torn, but no bones were broken, and she would not summon a doctor, or consider not going on to her work.”
• “Truman H. Wolf, agent for the Prudential life insurance company, who disappeared from Lawrence about July 15, has been located at Milwaukee, Wis. Sheriff W. J. Cummings of Douglas county is now on his way to Milwaukee to bring Wolf back to answer to a charge of embezzlement from the company he worked for in Lawrence for about two years. The charge against Wolf is that in July he collected $198.78 insurance premium from Wm. E. Koehring of Lawrence and left immediately for parts unknown without making any return to the insurance company…. It is said that when the officers located Wolf at Milwaukee he was working under an assumed name as a solicitor for a weekly periodical and had severed all connections with the insurance business.”
• “The advance guard of the University of Kansas freshman class is in Lawrence this week. The boys and girls are looking up suitable rooming places and in a general way getting the lay of the land before they are caught up in the whirl of University activities next week. Although the rushing season is not yet open, the new students are being given the ‘once over’ by the members of fraternities and sororities who are in town.”
• “There was a hard wind that did damage to trees in one small section of Lawrence during the storm yesterday afternoon and last night. Near the corner of Fifth and Indiana streets and from there on to the river the damage was most noticeable. Branches were blown from the trees, and in some cases the trunks of large trees were wrenched until the bark was split. The damage here was greater than was reported from any other part of town.”
• “Every rural school in the county is supposed to have a flag, which should be kept flying in good weather. County Superintendent C. R. Hawley has noted that many of the district schools are without flags. He is working among the school boards to get them to supply the deficiency, believing the possession and use of a flag will enable the common schools to become more efficient teachers of patriotism.”