From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 16, 1915:

• “Lawrence people will be interested in a contemplated order of the state board of health that all loaves of bread made for sale should be wrapped in oiled paper. While it is possible to secure wrapped bread on the local market, not all kinds of bread are so protected by the local bakers. Graham, rye, and hearth-baked loaves are usually not wrapped, and for that reason many housewives do not purchase these varieties of bread…. The bakers contend that crusty loaves, such as hearth-baked bread, rapidly deteriorate upon being wrapped, the crust becoming soft. The bakers wish an exception made in the order for this class of bread, claiming that their customers object to the wrapping.”
• “Today are met in their sixteenth annual reunion, ‘The Veterans of 1856,’ with some who came to Lawrence and Douglas earlier, and many who came later but all are in the pioneer class, as anybody should be classed who came as long ago as 1868, as did one or two of the people who gathered in the G. A. R. Hall and adjacent apartments in the court house…. Notable among them is the patriarch of the settlement – ‘Auntie’ George Gilbert, 93 years old, who came to Lawrence with the second party, in September, 1854.”
• “City Clerk Frank Brooks, who has been fighting a bad cold for a week or more, found it necessary to go to bed yesterday and not to attempt to get down to the city hall. He hopes to be around again soon after taking some careful treatment. During the city clerk’s absence his work at the city hall is being done so far as immediate necessities are concerned by the city commissioners taking turns.”
• “Right around the corner from the county jail and almost in its shadow a bold burglar plied his trade Tuesday night. He entered the office of the Friend lumber yard on the corner north of the court house and attempted to open the cash drawer. Perhaps it was the nearness of the barred doors and windows across the way that got on the nerves of the successful burglar. He had entered undetected and had managed to get the cash drawer part way open. And then he quit. That was the way the lumber yard people found it yesterday morning. It hadn’t been opened enough to enable the burglar to get at the cash inside and no explanation is forthcoming as to the reason why the burglar didn’t carry his work to a finish.”
• “County and city directors are looking for a man who held up a young Lawrence fellow near the Santa Fe station Monday night and took $2, all the money the victim had. The hold-up artist was recognized by the victim. He has been hiding out since Monday night and the officers have not been able to locate him up to the present time.”
• “Over 2,200 students had enrolled in the University when the books were checked up last night but no definite figures on the enrollment by schools will be given out until Saturday, according to a statement by Registrar Geo. O. Foster this morning.”