From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 3, 1916:

• “The need for trained nurses, young women who have had practical and theoretical training in efficient schools, was never more apparent than it is today. How many young women of Kansas have stopped to realize what an important part their sex is playing in the great European conflict and how many of them know that the need for skilled nurses behind the firing lines far exceeds the number now facing the tremendous task of caring for the wounded and dying of the great nations engaged in war? From America hundreds of heroic women have joined the ranks of the great army of mercy…. This is not a plea for war nurses. It is but the plea of surgeons and physicians at K. U. that more Kansas young women become trained nurses. These men will tell you that good nurses, those who can be relied upon in a crisis, are far too scarce. And these same men will tell you that such a situation is beyond their understanding. Why it exists, they say, is because women do not know of the opportunities afforded them to become trained nurses or of the splendid careers open to them when they have become proficient. Here in Kansas there are perhaps scores of young women who would respond if they knew of the advantages offered them by their own state; Kansas has one of the most efficient and finely equipped training schools for nurses in the United States…. Today, the trained nurse may fit herself for a varied number of hospital positions or she may become a teacher in a training school. The time when a woman nurse could not rise to the top in her profession is past…. The college graduate is splendid timber from which to construct skilled nurses and the plea is being made by surgeons throughout the country that more young women be told of the field open to them through such work.”
• “The annual city election will be held in Lawrence tomorrow…. An incumbent will be chosen for one city office, that of commissioner of finance. W. W. Holyfield, who occupies the office at present, and F. I. Carter are the candidates. In addition to the regular election ballot, each voter will be handed an advisory ballot on the question of improving the water works after the city takes possession. This advisory ballot is for the purpose of expressing the voter’s view as to whether the city commissioners should proceed to improve the water plant after its purchase.”
• “Circulars scattered over town Saturday afternoon contained the charge that W. W. Holyfield, commissioner of finance, is incompetent to hold the position, and attacked his personal integrity and his official acts. The circulars fell singularly flat, expressions freely given by people in all parts of town would indicate. The official records of Mr. Holyfield’s office are all that are required to disprove the charge that he is incompetent, his friends say, and the expressions on the street today indicated that this was the general view. It is recognized now by Mr. Holyfield’s opponent that the circulation of the charges contained in the circular was a mistake.”
• “Kansas University students are awaiting with interest to see what attitude the University authorities take in regard to the self-declared holiday of the law school students. The holiday will come Wednesday on the seventy-fourth anniversary of the birthday of ‘Uncle Jimmie’ Green, dean of the law school. A year ago the University Senate prohibited holidays by the different schools…. A petition was started among the law school students with a request for a holiday, April 5. This petition was withdrawn and the laws decided to forget the formality of a request and merely absent themselves from classes as has been done in other years. So Wednesday the members of the Law School faculty will be in the recitation rooms to meet their classes, but it is doubtful if any students report.”
• “The first week of April means the opening up of numerous activities for University students. The opening baseball games will be played Wednesday and Thursday with Ames furnishing the opposition. A K. U. Anti-Cigarette league will be formed at 7 o’clock tonight at Fraser hall…. Friday the K. U. debating season will close with the annual argument with Missouri.”
• “The barn belonging to M. V. Hill at 827 Missouri street was found to be ablaze at 4:50 o’clock this morning and an alarm was promptly turned in to the fire department. The structure was too far gone when the firemen were notified, however, and was completely destroyed…. The fire department was summoned to North Lawrence just at midnight Saturday night by a fire at 421 Lincoln street. The house was the property of Hugh Blair. The blaze was extinguished without a great deal of loss.”