From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 21, 1915:

• “The job which City Engineer Dunmire will tackle next … probably will be to make plans for the repair of the basement of the city library. The increasing demand for room at the library has made these repairs necessary as soon as they can be undertaken. The entire basement wall of the building will be repaired. An excavation will be made outside and the wall will be pointed up, plastered and waterproofed. At present the lower part of the building is not water proof and mold accumulates in the directors’ room. It is now necessary to use one of the basement rooms either as a stack room for the storage of books or for the juvenile department. Under the present conditions this would not be good either for the books or the persons who used them. The city engineer will begin on the plans and estimates for the job at once.”
• “All conditions smiled on the opening of the Douglas county fair today. There was never a better opening day for a county fair and the men who have spent the better part of the past month in getting ready for it felt much encouraged over the prospect for one of the best fairs the county has ever seen.”
• “The barn on the property of Chas. Thudium at 743 Rhode Island street was damaged by a fire which was discovered shortly before 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon. The fire department was called out and succeeded in putting out the blaze after the roof of the structure had been burned off…. It is said that some small children playing with matches started the fire in the barn loft. When the straw became ignited they tried to throw it out, with the result that the fire spread rapidly.”
• “The city commission debated at considerable length this morning the proposition of the Ohio Mausoleum company to have the city become trustee of the endowment fund of the mausoleum which will be built adjacent to Oak Hill cemetery. The commissioners appeared divided over the desirability of assuming responsibility for the upkeep of the mausoleum.”
• “With the biggest freshman class in its history, the school of medicine of the University of Kansas is crowded for room and equipment and will have to be enlarged soon, according to a statement by Dean S. J. Crumbine, of the school, this morning. Dr. Crumbine has recently returned from a visit to the advanced departments of his school in Rosedale, Kansas, and says that the prospects for a big year are better than ever. ‘The place where we are going to have trouble,’ he said, ‘is right here at the University in Lawrence. We have over fifty members in our freshman class, an increase of ten over the class of last year, and we really haven’t the accommodations to take care of them. Each man has to have a microscope and a special set of equipment and the rooms are all overcrowded. I am glad to see the school growing but I do hope that in a short time we will be better able to take care of the increase.'”