From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for Sept. 26, 1915:

• “Officer Froeliger of the city police force essayed the role of lifesaver today and saved a dog which had lodged on one of the piles of brush jammed against the piers of the Kaw bridge. The animal came swimming down the river early this forenoon and managed to make a landing on the brush heap. Persons who had watched him fighting the current notified the police station, and Officer Froeliger and Chief Fisher went to the rescue. Under the direction of the chief, Officer Froeliger managed to throw the loop of a long rope over the animal’s head. He was drawn by the neck up to the bridge. This experience put the dog down and out for a short time, but he soon revived and frisked in a grateful way about the feet of the rescuers.”
• “Complaint has been made to the school authorities by the officials of the First Presbyterian church that high school and grade school boys are in the habit of loafing on the church steps and disfiguring the property with chalk marks. The steps of the city library are said to form another favorite loafing place for school boys. The school authorities are considering measures that will safeguard the church property from being disfigured and will have a tendency to discourage the loafing habit on the part of the boys.”
• “When all the mail boxes in town blossomed in new green government paint yesterday there were some inquiries made of Postmaster Finch as to just what was going on. ‘I am putting the finishing touches on my administration,’ the postmaster explained. The touches of green paint on the town’s landscape followed nearly a year of negotiation with the government at Washington. The postmaster expected that iron standards for the mail boxes would be provided along with the paint, but in this particular he was disappointed. The government instructed him to put the boxes on rough oak posts. In addition to the paint the boxes are to be fitted with new cards which will tell accurately the times collections are made from the boxes.”
• “The problem of what is to be done with Mary Brownsfield, known to many Lawrence people as ‘Cocaine Mary,’ again confronts the officers of the law. The woman was arrested last night when officers found her drunk, and was taken to the city jail. As she was out on parole it will not be necessary to hold a trial. Mary Brownsfield was declared unfit to manager her own affairs some time ago, but as yet the probate court has found no one who is willing to assume the burden of guardianship. It has been offered to several persons, but all have declined.”
• “At the meeting of the Women’s Student Government association of the University next Monday, the rule of ‘no dates with first year men’ will probably be passed for football games as the majority of the women of the University have expressed themselves as in favor of it. The cheerleader, Joe Gaitskill, has said that he believes the movement will help the school’s rooting at football games fully fifty percent. Upperclassmen and women have praised the idea almost universally and are of the opinion that if the freshmen are approached in the right way they will be glad to forego dates for the good of the school. One University professor, in talking to a group of freshmen last night, expressed the hope that they would have an open meeting of all first year men and agree to forego dates and ask the cheerleader to appoint, or allow the freshmen to elect, two or three cheerleaders of their own to assist them in learning the yells and to teach them how to root.”