From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 23, 1916:

• “The country people need education more than any other class according to W. D. Ross, state superintendent, who spoke before the White school at their closing exercises yesterday afternoon. ‘The farmer of today must be a geologist and a chemist properly to understand his land. He must be a merchant to dispose of his crop to the best advantage and to buy his supplies scientifically,’ said Mr. Ross. Superintendent Ross complimented the people of the district on their school. After returning from a visit the state superintendent told a Lawrence friend that taking all things into consideration the White school of Douglas county was the best rural school it had been his pleasure to visit this year.”
• “The citizens of Lawrence and farmers about the city may have an opportunity to get the exact pedigree of gold brick salesmen, mining stock promoters or all other schemes calling for an outlay of cash on their part at the instigation of an unknown individual…. Members were of the opinion that nefarious schemes for separating citizens of the community from their money without value received could be thwarted by the operation of such an information bureau conducted through the office of the secretary of the Merchants’ association.”
• “County and city officers in co-operation made a raid at the home of ‘Aunt Jane’ Williams at 244 Arkansas street Saturday afternoon and found evidence that convinced them that Aunt Jane has been rather disregarding the state law against selling liquor. Their search of the premises revealed two cases of beer, a large quantity of empties, and a carton of red liquor containing five quarts and a pint of whisky. The stuff was seized as contraband and reposed in the office of the chief of police this morning. With the discovery of the liquor cache at Aunt Jane’s, the officers believe they have secured the explanation of a complaint recently made by a street car conductor. The conductor told the officers that a large number of men in various stages of drunkenness of late were boarding the Indiana street car at the end of the line. It was this complaint that led to the investigation by the officers.”
• “The Bowersock milling company has drawn plans for the construction of an even dozen new reinforced concrete cylindrical grain elevators and storage tanks which will increase the storage capacity of the mills to 700,000 bushels of grain. The contract for the construction has not yet been let and the date of commencing the work will depend on the developments of the next few months. There is a possibility that the work will be started soon…. An increase in the capacity of the mills is also contemplated in connection with the building of more storage elevators. This increase would enable the mills to consume 50,000 bushels of grain per week. The present capacity is around 35,000 bushels.”