From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 7, 1916:

• “Jealousy is suggested as the motive behind an attack which four men made on Miller Jones in North Lawrence Tuesday night while he was escorting two young women home from a dance. Jones was beaten with stones and brick bats in the hands of one or more of the four men, and suffered serious injuries. Warrants for felonious assault were sworn out by Jones against the four men on Wednesday morning and yesterday afternoon officers arrested three of the men. The fourth seems to have left town…. The story told by Jones to the officers was that he was taking two young women home when on Elm street a short distance east of Bridge street someone lurking in the shadows by the walk touched him on the shoulder and requested that he wait a minute. Jones says he did not suspect trouble and turned, only to receive a large stone full in the face. As a result of the attack Jones was badly beaten about the face, head and chest and was reduced to a semi-conscious condition, but not, he says, before he recognized his assailants. The force of the blows he received was shown by a tobacco can in his pocket which was entirely flattened. One of his eyes is dangerously injured…. Charlie Bell, who Jones says stopped him, admits that he accosted Jones, but denies emphatically that he had anything further to do with the attack. The other members of the ‘gang’ alleged to have made the attack told officers after their arrest that when Jones turned around he had a large knife in his hand which he flourished threateningly. But none of the arrested men bears any marks of injury from a knife.”
• “Ambition is not always outgrown by age, in the belief of Harold G. Ingham, secretary of the correspondence division of the K. U. extension department. As proof he showed the enrollment card of a Kansan seventy-eight years old who has been taking correspondence lessons in history for several months. Another card Mr. Ingham produced was that of a Kansas district judge who is spending his spare time filling out the assignments given by a K. U. instructor in German. This judge wants to be able to secure a K. U. degree of bachelor of arts…. Sixty percent of those studying by mail are teachers, Mr. Ingham estimates, while the remainder come from every profession imaginable. Ministers and newspapermen form a class who appear especially anxious to improve themselves.”
• “The states of Kansas and Nebraska are covered with snow today which varies in depth from 1 to 7 inches, according to the local United States weather observer. Temperatures below freezing are reported north of Oklahoma and Arkansas, the lowest being 22 degrees in western Kansas.”
• “The Dewes road hearing was held this afternoon before the board of county commissioners. The advisability of opening the road will be decided upon later by the commissioners. The road in question joins the California road near the Kanwaka store.”