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

• “Three car loads of re-enforcing steel for the girders and arches of the new Kansas River bridge are being unloaded on the north bank of the river this afternoon. The steel was brought to Lawrence over the interurban track. This is the first shipment of an order of eleven car loads which will be used in the construction of the bridge…. ‘The reopening of the work on the bridge depends absolutely upon the weather,’ A. L. Hedrick, resident engineer, stated this morning. ‘As the sand which would be used contains many frozen lumps the material is not in proper condition to continue the work until a thaw comes.’… Many of the Lawrence laborers who have depended for their winter support upon the bridge work are anxiously awaiting the opening of work since other jobs are scarce at present.”
• “The burning of some food cooking on the stove filled the kitchen full of smoke and caused Mrs. George Bruner at 821 New Hampshire street to call out the fire department thinking that the house was afire. The alarm was turned in at 3:30 this afternoon.”
• “Word has been received in Lawrence of the death of G. M. Woodhead, for many years a resident of Lawrence. The death occurred in Texas last Friday and interment was at the old home in McLouth. Mr. Woodhead was a painter and many of his working hours were spent upon scaffolding and in places ordinarily considered dangerous, but the injuries which finally resulted in his death were received when he was run into by a jitney while visiting in Texas. Mr. Woodhead was a fine many and was well liked by all who knew him.”
• “The new MacAllaster school opened this week with an enrollment of 107 pupils under the tutelage of four teachers…. A program for the formal opening of the school is being prepared under the direction of the teachers of the school and the superintendent of the public schools.”
• “Sweet peace brooded over the police station last night. There was not a telephone call telling of trouble, nor any case scheduled for a hearing this morning.”
• “The small caliber, high power guns which the Lawrence police department recently contemplated purchasing have been exchanged for a 44-caliber rifle which will not shoot as far, perhaps, but will have greater ‘stopping force’ whenever it hits. There are three of the guns in the police arsenal and they are kept loaded and ready for service at all times. They are intended for use in all cases where the ordinary police revolver will be an inadequate weapon.”
• “Any residents of Lawrence who have rooms which they wish to rent during the Merchants short course at the University of Kansas, February 7 to 11, are asked to notify the University extension department, telephone K. U. 101. The department has received more applications for rooms than it can supply.”