From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 12, 1915:

• “The morning dispatches indicate that there may be a change of policy of keeping secret the official reports made by common carriers of the names of citizens who receive liquor shipments…. An opinion given by John S. Dawson when he was attorney general was to the effect that the names should be kept secret from the general public but should always be accessible to officers of the law. That policy has been closely followed in Douglas county. The list has at times been of great assistance to the officers. The general public was never permitted to see it…. The possibility of a change of policy in the matter of secrecy will be of interest to some people whose names are on file at the court house. There are many who have no objections to having their names on the records, but who would object strenuously to having the matter become a subject of neighborhood gossip.”
• “Present prospects favor the completion of the Cordley school building during the latter part of October, with a bare possibility that the other buildings — the McAllaster and Lincoln — may be completed by that time. The brick work upon the Cordley building is completed, and the roof is being placed…. At the present the McAllaster building is about two weeks behind the Cordley building. At this time brick is being laid above the second floor, and the fire walls being put in…. Every effort will be made to crowd the brick construction upon the McAllaster and Lincoln building enough to in a sense ‘catch up’ with the Cordley building…. Up till this time there has not been what could be called an accident to any workman upon any of the buildings. Mr. Young, the contractor, gets much satisfaction out of this fact.”
• “When Kansas schools open for the autumn session this year several new orders will be in effect. Chief among these is the order of the state fire marshal that fire drill must be held at least once monthly in every school in the state…. A disastrous fire may occur in a small school house as well as in a school building of several stories.”
• “After eight years and three months ownership and management of the Place Hotel at Ninth and New Hampshire, Paul Luckan has traded the property, including the livery barn and stable immediately adjacent, to John Adams, a Jefferson county farmer. The farm which Mr. Luckan gets consists of 120 acres, well improved and very productive, in Jefferson county, nine miles north and a little east of Lawrence.”
• “A number of University students who are interested in writing for the newspapers and magazines will form a writing club this year…. It is planned to hold weekly meetings at which the members will submit their work for mutual criticism, and hold discussion on literary questions.”
• “Tonganoxie is paving eight blocks in the business part of the city, laying concrete upon a standard foundation. The advantages of paving are perfectly obvious now that it is under way, and everybody is wondering why it was not done long ago.”